Gladiator Guild Manager News

Royal Arena is now available and comes with new challenges and new lore.


In update v0.830 we introduce new mechanical dwarven units and the struggle between new technology and the people of Deadwoods who are being replaced by it and need your help to fight back. Baroness will need your help entertaining a very important and influential guest from the kingdom's council in the newly open area. And if you side with High Necromancer, he will ask you to do the opposite and ruin Baronesses reputation.


We are introducing two new fighting mechanics as well.
Hook pull, which will allow gladiators to pull targets all the way toward them.

And taunt mechanics that will let you influence who enemy gladiators will attack, but you’ll also need to be careful when setting up your own team plan because the enemy team might have a gladiator with a taunt who can override your own team attack priority instructions.


[h2]New gladiators:[/h2]
[h3]Rhino[/h3]
Beast with thick skin armor and new taunt ability.

[h3]Warlock [/h3]
Powerful summoner unit who comes with two additional units that he can create. He can summon small imps from hell and, if enough time passed, can summon a hell titan who can set enemies around him on fire with his burning wings.

[h3]New animation:[/h3]
Dog summoning item now has actual dog animation instead of a worg.

[h3]Machine Gunner[/h3]
Mechanical bot that shoots a stream of bullets

[h3]Explosion Bot[/h3]
New kamikaze type unit that rushes towards the enemy to explode and cause high damage to vulnerable backline opponent gladiators.

[h3]Hook bot [/h3]
Mechanical unit with a new hook ability that pulls gladiators toward it.



[h2]Bosses:[/h2]
[h3]Steam Golem[/h3]
Mechanical boss that can pull opponents towards him with his hook. He has powerful melee attacks and can fire multiple rockets from his back rocket launcher. Rockets will be dealing area of effect damage and disrupt enemies by knocking them down.

[h3]Chained Wyvern [/h3]
Powerful boss, imprisoned in royal arenas chambers to fight against gladiators while entertaining the audience. It can bite enemies, making them bleed damage over time, and stomp them, making area of effect damage.


Join us in our Discord Community and tell us what you think about the new update.
Thank you, guys!

Hey guys! We wanted to share what we’re working on and tell you plans for the next update.

We are back to making the next arena which also includes new gladiators, quests, and enemies.


Royal Arena will be the next challenge for completing the game.


It will come with quests, including new boss fights. Support Baroness by slaying a powerful monster in front of an important audience. Help People by destroying dwarven machinery that is replacing their jobs in front of everybody's eyes and prove that machines and technology are not superior.

We might release some gladiators as a smaller update even before the arena and quests are finished.
We are back to completing the main game campaign, and we hope you guys will enjoy all the new things in the game. Each new gladiator, enemy, quirk, or item will also be implemented in the Tournament mode, automatically expending it and providing new powerful combinations to play with.

Thank you, guys! Talk to you soon! ːsteamhappyː

-Achievements that were not unlockable are now fixed
-Neckless of Recklessness item is working on all types of attacks
-Few other small fixes

Tournament Mode is now available in the normal branch of the game. We fixed and improved a lot of things that you guys playing beta reported.

Leaderboard scores are now restarted as difficulty changed a lot during beta and some issues were fixed. So now’s your chance to get a really high place as we start from a blank slate! :)

Here is a video of me playing the tournament mode (and failing miserably to get a good score ːsteamfacepalmː). You can see how it looks and plays:
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[h2]Other[/h2]
32 achievements are now available as well.


Tournament mode comes with a feature to choose which gladiators will be showing up in the shop at the start of the game. This feature is now also available while playing normal mode.



It’s an endless game mode with a focus on quickly building unique teams, completing rounds, achieving the highest score you can, and comparing yourself with other players or your friends.


You’ll start with the preparation round. After the first three fights, you will be given a reward where you can choose one of the 8 random powerful gladiators, each having two positive quirks.



After finishing the preparation round you will again have six regular fights. In between those, you’ll get a free gladiator or a free item reward. The round will end with either a Swarm Fight where you’ll be facing a big group of wild enemies or with a powerful Boss Fight. Defeating them will earn you powerful item rewards, then let you choose a new unlockable gladiator, and move you forward to the next round.


You’ll start with five lives, letting you lose 5 battles before the tournament ends.
Each fight will increase your score that will be uploaded to Steam Leaderboard where you can compare yourself with other players and your friends:

(Note that Steam Leaderboard is optional, and you can disable it if you do not wish to participate.)


You’ll have your personal best and last scores recorded locally.
There are three different leaderboard types. One for Normal game, one for Perma Death, and one for Total Score that sums up all the points you earned from each Tournament you played.
(Note: Higher the gold compensation for fallen gladiators in PermaDeath mode will earn you a lesser score per battle)

In case you are having trouble winning a fight there are two options to help you out. On the right panel, you have a button to give up your life for more gold and give your team a needed boost to win. Or you can pay gold to completely skip that fight.



[h2]Let’s see how far we can push our teams and compete![/h2]
We are super curious to see how many points you can score in this new mode! We encourage you to join our Discord Community. We made a #tournament channel that is intended for sharing screenshots of your scores and teams that you developed. We’d love to see what kinds of interesting and unique teams you made!

As always all suggestions for improving this mode are welcome both here on Steam or on our Discord Community.

See you at the Tournament Leaderboards! Let’s have some fun competing and sharing our experiences and tactics! ːsteamhappyː

-Continuing the tournament after leaving the game could sometimes cause a game-breaking bug where previously saved enemy team would not be loaded. Now fixed.

-Buffed a dozen quirks that were not very popular since they are situational or require some conditions until they take effect. Now they are more useful and interesting choices.