Gladiators: Survival in Rome
Released Jun 2025
Gladiators: Survival in Rome is an Action RPG with casual survival game mechanics and active city building. You'll experience a new type of survival game with quests & dungeons, continuous progression, seasonal events and lots of spear poking.
64% positive · 461 reviews
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Released, ongoing live service game
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Live Service
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Released, ongoing live service game
High confidence
Live Service
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
Gladiators: Survival in Rome is a free-to-play Action RPG that launched on June 10, 2025, and is designed as an ongoing live service game. The store description explicitly advertises monthly events, seasonal content (Winterfest, Halloween, Valentine's Day, and more), and closes with "many more features to come" — making clear the game is intended to receive continuous content indefinitely.
The developer, Colossi Games, has maintained a strong and consistent cadence of major content updates since at least May 2024. These include: the Blightstone Marshes expansion (May 21, 2024), the Mausoleum Fatum Obscura dungeon update (September 27, 2024), Umbra Legio Chapter II with Horses and Stables (December 14, 2024), the Arena of Glory PvP mode (February 6, 2026), and the Perusia Revamp (May 27, 2026). That's five major content drops across roughly two years, alongside multiple feature patches, balance updates, and announcements — a pace that shows no sign of slowing.
The developer has also published multiple roadmaps (one for 2024 and one in June 2024 covering upcoming features), and a December 2023 Q&A session outlined numerous long-term plans including guild mechanics, group dungeons, and pet companions — all described as future goals. The most recent major update was on May 27, 2026, just weeks before today's date.
This game is clearly designed to keep players returning with regular new content, seasonal events, and ongoing progression — the hallmarks of a live service title.
Evidence
Major update 1.37.8 shipped the Perusia Revamp, adding new merchants, a new currency, new weapons, expanded dialogues, and rewards tied to house construction — the most recent major content drop as of the assessment date.
Arena of Glory PvP mode launched, adding competitive multiplayer, matchmaking, and Umbra Legio improvements — a major new gameplay system.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Colossi Games
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
Gladiators: Survival in Rome is an Action RPG with casual survival game mechanics and big city-building possibilities. You'll experience a new type of survival game with quests, continuous open world progression, monthly events and your dumb ways to die not harming your fun level.
Chop every tree, hunt rabbits and deer, stone and copper mining - resource management are a staple of every survival game, and Gladiators is no different. However, we threw away the hunger games in favor of a replenishing stamina pool so you can start every game session on exploration instead of just preventing yourself from dying.
From setting up your first camp to building an entire Roman city, you'll be pretty busy making a home for yourself and all the rescued slaves that turn up to settle as workers. Manage their resource refining jobs, build houses and beautify the city with fountains and other decor.
Craft your weaponry from a selection of clubs, axes, bows, spears and more. Upgrade them to make pointy ends even more pointy, embellish your craft with gems and their attributes, and poke around at Roman legions, bandit bosses and other generally unfriendly folk.
Dive into dark caves and unravel the story of Proserpina, better known in Greek mythology as Persephone; lead the siege to the stronghold of Castrum, or rebuild the ancient city of Perugia. Learning about history has never been more fun!
Keep coming back for freshly designed seasonal events as they happen: the Winterfest with Teuton wildlings, the Origin of Saint Valentine, Halloween and many more to come. Missed one? Don't worry, we've put them into your game progression and keep them fresh every year.
Not at home? Experience Gladiators: Survival in Rome on your phone or Steam Deck, fully optimized for the mobile gaming experience. And we're working to make your savegame available fully cross-platform.
And many more features to come:
Events ⭐ Quests ⭐ Talent Trees ⭐ Coop Building⭐ Mini Games ⭐ Achievements ⭐ Colosseum PVP Leaderboards ⭐ Guilds & Chat
As developers of Gladiators: Survival in Rome, we hope you enjoy our casual approach to the Survival RPG genre. We are always happy to get in touch directly with our players and gather feedback - hop onto our Discord: 💬
Thanks and have fun surviving!
🏹 Survival Games, casualized
Chop every tree, hunt rabbits and deer, stone and copper mining - resource management are a staple of every survival game, and Gladiators is no different. However, we threw away the hunger games in favor of a replenishing stamina pool so you can start every game session on exploration instead of just preventing yourself from dying.
🏛️ Build your own Roman village
From setting up your first camp to building an entire Roman city, you'll be pretty busy making a home for yourself and all the rescued slaves that turn up to settle as workers. Manage their resource refining jobs, build houses and beautify the city with fountains and other decor.
⚔️ Carry a big stick (mind the pointy end)
Craft your weaponry from a selection of clubs, axes, bows, spears and more. Upgrade them to make pointy ends even more pointy, embellish your craft with gems and their attributes, and poke around at Roman legions, bandit bosses and other generally unfriendly folk.
🗺️ Explore Rome and its dungeons
Dive into dark caves and unravel the story of Proserpina, better known in Greek mythology as Persephone; lead the siege to the stronghold of Castrum, or rebuild the ancient city of Perugia. Learning about history has never been more fun!
📅 Enjoy Seasonal Events
Keep coming back for freshly designed seasonal events as they happen: the Winterfest with Teuton wildlings, the Origin of Saint Valentine, Halloween and many more to come. Missed one? Don't worry, we've put them into your game progression and keep them fresh every year.
📱 Put Rome in your pocket
Not at home? Experience Gladiators: Survival in Rome on your phone or Steam Deck, fully optimized for the mobile gaming experience. And we're working to make your savegame available fully cross-platform.
And many more features to come:
Events ⭐ Quests ⭐ Talent Trees ⭐ Coop Building⭐ Mini Games ⭐ Achievements ⭐ Colosseum PVP Leaderboards ⭐ Guilds & Chat
As developers of Gladiators: Survival in Rome, we hope you enjoy our casual approach to the Survival RPG genre. We are always happy to get in touch directly with our players and gather feedback - hop onto our Discord: 💬
Thanks and have fun surviving!
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Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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