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Praetorians

Pyro Studios · Kalypso Media Digital · 2014-04-11

SteamGOG

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Feb 28, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire. You will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the combat theaters of Gaul and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy in the crusade to become Emperor.

8
playing now
81%
positive of 707 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
84/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
85/100
IGDB user rating (21 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Praetorians is a 3D real-time tactics video game developed by Pyro Studios and published by Eidos Interactive in 2003, based on Julius Caesar's historical campaigns in Gaul and Britain, Crassus' battles in Parthia, and the events of Caesar's Civil War during the 1st century BC. The player controls either the Roman Republic, the Ptolemaic Kingdom, or a generic barbarian tribe based on the Helvetii, Gauls, and Celts.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 30% of 18,161 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–42k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 707 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$2.26-55%
GOG$2.49-50%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.44 at GamersGate (2017-11-20) · bundled 8×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 96 of 150 observed days · $1.82 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$5.99$0.492015-01-012026-08-302015-01-01 — best price $0.992015-06-26 — best price $1.792015-11-03 — best price $2.372016-12-22 — best price $0.742017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-09-04 — best price $1.242019-04-04 — best price $4.992019-10-18 — best price $4.992020-03-16 — best price $1.492020-07-12 — best price $4.082020-09-18 — best price $4.992020-11-26 — best price $1.492021-02-02 — best price $1.492021-04-13 — best price $4.992021-06-24 — best price $2.492021-10-11 — best price $4.192022-01-07 — best price $4.992022-04-13 — best price $4.992022-07-25 — best price $2.492022-10-25 — best price $2.492023-01-31 — best price $4.992023-05-06 — best price $4.992023-08-18 — best price $2.452023-11-21 — best price $2.292024-02-14 — best price $2.492024-05-14 — best price $2.492024-08-01 — best price $4.192024-10-25 — best price $2.452025-01-10 — best price $1.992025-04-09 — best price $4.992025-07-10 — best price $2.492025-09-29 — best price $2.242025-12-24 — best price $3.742026-03-17 — best price $2.502026-06-02 — best price $4.272026-08-30 — best price $2.49
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

RTSWarRomeIndieClassicStrategyHistoricalMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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