Gladiator Guild Manager
Fair · Roguelike · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.7h
- Value
- $1.72/hr
- Reviews
- 81% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 256mb Video Memory, capable of Shader Model 2.0+, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $4.94. That was September 2025. 52 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 48 percent on value. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue (free, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Metal Slug Tactics ($24.99, scores 43).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 58 percent of the 383 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 8.7 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 22, 2.6 times as much.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.7 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
78% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
36 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 20:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I really enjoyed this game. I'm a big fan of auto battle games and this one was a fun one with all the different classes and traits. You really do have to mid-max to get the most out of every playthrough and I can see why this game won't be for everyone but I liked it. Def give this game a try or wait for a sale if your on the fence.
solid 6/10 - weak 7/10 good: lot of classes. different races with similar overall balance across the board. Lot of options Large amount of different battle. Reasonably grindy bad: Repetitive Some build are just superiors to others. You end up creating a perfect response for each situation. Getting to the venture unlocking and making the first classes where you're losing more is actually the great part here. But as...
Decent game, somewhat fun on and off very low replayability, no balance what so ever. Attacks players with advertising their new game in a ingame window that takes up 1/5 or 1/6th of the screen in a different genre begging for wishlisting. For a bux or two sure, more then that? Na, I don't think so.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Gladiator Guild Manager scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1043260/gladiator-guild-managerReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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