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A Legionary's Life

A Legionary's Life

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.

Released Sep 25, 2019 Developer Alessandro Roberti Platforms Windows RomeHistoricalTurn-BasedRPGTurn-Based Combat
View on Steam ↗ $7.99 (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

87.0%positive2,371 reviews
Recommended · 9 found this helpful

“Ate Gauls, ate Punics, luv Rome, simple as”

— a player, Steam review · 43 hrs played
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“TL;DR: An absolute gem of a game, I highly recommend this Roman RPG. There are seldom few games that I have that I have 100% completed. Typically, I find that 100% completion is a grind that slowly erodes the joy that the game once provided. Not so for this game: it still had…”

— a player, Steam review · 77 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Nice game, the meta progression push you to be greedy instead of being a rat a the rear of the century waiting for the end of a campaign. Some times too much RNG tho”

— a player, Steam review · 52 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-11 13:13 UTC · history via SteamCharts.

6playing at last check
1224-hour peak
362all-time peak
0 50 100 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 83 avg · Sep 2019

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

40achievements
37.8%median completion
9.7%rarest: Pristine Triumph
90.4% of players 78.7% of players 70.0% of players 68.8% of players 61.9% of players 60.4% of players 54.8% of players 54.5% of players 51.9% of players 50.3% of players 49.0% of players 47.6% of players 43.9% of players 43.6% of players 43.2% of players 42.1% of players 42.1% of players 41.7% of players 40.7% of players 38.1% of players 37.8% of players 37.7% of players 35.3% of players 34.4% of players 33.2% of players 33.1% of players 31.5% of players 31.5% of players 30.4% of players 29.4% of players 28.4% of players 25.7% of players 19.8% of players 19.7% of players 19.6% of players 18.8% of players 15.3% of players 15.2% of players 14.4% of players 9.7% of players 90.4% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
90.4%Carthago Nova — Survive the siege of New Carthage.
78.7%Tesserarius — Reach the rank of Tesserarius.
70.0%As Skilled As An Average Professional — Reach at least 50 in both the Sword and the Shield Skills.
Rarest badges of honor
9.7%Pristine Triumph — Finish the game with a character that spent no points on Enhancements.
14.4%The Roman Achilles — Win at least 18 Cups in one game.
15.2%Consulship — Become a consul in the epilogue.

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

$7.99current · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
$7.99lowest since tracking began2026-07-11
US7.99 USD
EU6.99 EUR
UK6.10 GBP
Australia11.50 AUD
Canada8.99 CAD
Japan820 JPY
Brazil16.59 BRL
China32.00 CNY

Regional prices at last sample, in local currency — Steam sets each region's price independently.

Brazil≈$3.3 China Japan Canada EU US Australia UK≈$8.1

Cheapest → most expensive, converted to USD at ECB reference rates (2026-07-24). Relative comparison only.

$0 $5 $10 07-11 07-13 07-16 07-19 07-22 07-26

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

May 06, 2026
Never Second in Rome is out!

I'm happy to announce the full release of my new game, Never Second in Rome!While it has many things in common with A Legionary's Life, there are also a lot of big differences.In Never Second in Rome,

Oct 04, 2025
Update 2025 10 04

Patched Unity's CVE-2025-59489. I have also updated the free demo.

Feb 12, 2025
Early Access launch on February 18

I'm thrilled to announce that Never Second in Rome is entering Early Access on February 18 at 17:00 CET (08:00 PST). The initial version will contain 10 fully playable chapters extending from the begi

Sep 25, 2024
Five years

I almost didn't notice that today is the fifth anniversary of the release of a Legionary's Life. It is gratifying to see that this game is still being played and remembered by so many people after suc

Sep 03, 2024
Never Second in Rome announced!

After well over four years of development, the time is ripe to unveil my next game: Never Second in Rome. As guessed by some of you, it is set during Caesar's campaigns. If you have played A Legionary

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresIndie, RPG
Player tagsRome · Historical · Turn-Based · RPG · Turn-Based Combat · Replay Value · War · Perma Death · Pixel Graphics · Old School · Text-Based · Retro (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German
Achievements40
Estimated owners50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.arobertigames.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 SP1+ Processor: Any CPU with SSE2 instruction set support: Intel Pentium 4+, AMD Athlon 64+ Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: Any graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities Storage: 200 MB available space