Gladio and Glory

Gladio and Glory launched into Early Access on March 16, 2021 as a free-to-play physics-based gladiator game from solo developer Adi Zhavo. In the weeks after launch, the developer was active — shipping feature patches, adding a boss arena, a global leaderboard, and then a major PvP multiplayer update on April 21, 2021. Activity continued through late April 2021 with a stamina rework patch. However, on November 5, 2021, the developer posted a direct statement about the game's future. They explained that as a solo developer, they had reached the limits of what they could achieve alone and needed people with stronger skills to deliver the game they envisioned. They explicitly stated the game would remain "on standby" in Early Access — free to play but without further updates — while they shifted focus to experimenting with new games and projects. This was a clear developer communication that active development had paused indefinitely. A May 2022 post confirmed the developer had moved on to work on another game (Piratopia) with a new publisher. A November 2022 post was about a different developer's gladiator game entirely, not about Gladio and Glory's own development. There have been no further communications about this game's development from that point through today, June 23, 2026 — nearly five years after the standby announcement. The game remains in Early Access on Steam with no communicated timeline for a 1.0 release, and the developer has not revisited or retracted the standby statement. Anyone considering this game should be aware that it has been in an indefinite development pause since late 2021.