A Legionary's Life
Fair · Roguelike · 2019
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $7.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 11.8h
- Value
- $0.68/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Any graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
A Legionary's Life lets you play as a Roman soldier during the years of the Second Punic War and beyond. Rise up through the ranks and win prestigious awards or just focus on making it home in one piece; it's up to you.
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
December 2021 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 33 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 11 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 68 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battle Brothers ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Heads Will Roll: Reforged ($24.99, scores 45).
4 of the 512 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 146 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 11.8 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 34, 2.9 times as much.
The drop-off
90% start to 49% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
14 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 22:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Very fun text based rouge-like RPG. If you are a fan of Roman history and enjoy some stat based RNG then this game will be fun for you.
A groundhog style life sim of a roman soldier, rogue-lite because as you die and start over you compound growth.
Kill Punics. Behead Punics. Roundhouse kick a Punic Defecate in a Punic's garum. Stir-fry Punics in a wok Report Punics to the censors. Sell Punics into slavery, then invoice them for the transport.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
A Legionary's Life scores 64/100 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/1058430/a-legionary-s-lifeReviews 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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