Story of a Gladiator
Skip · Multiplayer · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 44, under the fair line, at $10.99.
- Length
- 3.3h 5.5h to 100%
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 79% of 217 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Story of a Gladiator is an arena beat 'em up where you take the role of a man in search of his destiny. Fight against waves of enemies in the arena to earn coin and fame until you are strong enough to enter the colosseum and become champion.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Any, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 71 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Punch Club ($9.99, scores 56) beats it on value, while it beats Capcom Arcade Stadium (free, scores 1).
More about Story of a Gladiator
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 3.3 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
96% start to 2% 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
What players say
On paper the game seems nice. But the gameplay is boring and not fun. Sound is not very good. 2/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
fun for about 20 minutes until u realize the game is just one giant repeating loop. if u fight the first battle, uve already fought all the battles
Great game , wasted hrs trying to get it working newer hardware and windows 11, but have done now, `I` have enjoyed playing through overall, in i ts way, kind of simple game play, but gets to a point of lack of depth despite it has quite a few items it often doesn't feel so much different, Still would like to see updates to it for sure.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Story of a Gladiator scores 44/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/848060/story-of-a-gladiatorReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.