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Gladiator Guild Manager

Entertainment Forge · GrabTheGames · 2024-06-22

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 13, 2021 (Mac), Oct 13, 2021 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

24
playing now
81%
positive of 4.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

24 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

A battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 24 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 288 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~36/week).
  • · Review velocity up 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 10% of 18,004 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 81k–183k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,064 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.25 at DLGamer (2024-03-21) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 67 of 100 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
47447420212026Week of 2021-10-01: 474 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 335 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

5402026-08-07 00:00 — 21 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 27 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 43 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 32 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 52 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 38 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 41 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 39 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 35 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 26 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 46 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 29 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 24 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 39 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 32 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 22 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 37 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 39 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 22 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 26 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 31 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 27 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 54 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 36 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 17 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 30 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 40 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 24 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$2.252021-10-142026-08-142021-10-14 — best price $8.992022-01-10 — best price $9.992022-05-02 — best price $8.992022-07-29 — best price $9.992022-10-15 — best price $7.992022-12-16 — best price $9.992023-02-19 — best price $8.992023-04-14 — best price $7.992023-05-24 — best price $9.992023-07-14 — best price $7.992023-09-13 — best price $11.992023-11-01 — best price $11.992023-12-11 — best price $10.692024-01-21 — best price $10.692024-02-24 — best price $14.992024-03-25 — best price $10.792024-04-23 — best price $10.442024-05-17 — best price $14.992024-06-17 — best price $9.742024-07-31 — best price $14.992024-08-19 — best price $14.992024-09-19 — best price $11.742024-10-17 — best price $13.052024-12-11 — best price $7.862025-03-02 — best price $7.492025-05-01 — best price $11.012025-07-11 — best price $11.012025-09-04 — best price $14.992025-10-20 — best price $14.992025-11-28 — best price $8.992025-12-20 — best price $11.892026-01-31 — best price $14.992026-03-03 — best price $11.892026-04-02 — best price $14.992026-05-02 — best price $13.202026-06-06 — best price $11.222026-07-11 — best price $8.312026-08-14 — best price $12.51
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

51
achievements tracked
78%
earned "Death Party Begins"
14.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,9091%51

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGRTSBuildingMedievalStrategyTacticalManagementRogue-liteTurn-BasedAuto Battler

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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