A Legionary's Life

Alessandro Roberti / Sep 25, 2019 / Indie, RPG

windows

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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.

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What's new

Update 2025 10 04

2025-10-04

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

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What players say

Very Positive

86% positive, 2,206 reviews

Recommended43 hrs played

Ate Gauls, ate Punics, luv Rome, simple as

10 found this helpful, 2026-03-26

Recommended70 hrs played

Speaking as a classics major who has done actual scholarly research on this time period, this is one of the best games about Rome I've ever played. The writing is beautiful, the combat system is really innovative and cool, and the gameplay loop is simple, engaging, and has yet to get repetitive. It'd be nice if certain mechanics were explained a little more clearly in-game, but that's a relatively minor gripe and...

9 found this helpful, 2026-01-11

Recommended29 hrs played

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.

8 found this helpful, 2026-07-16

Recommended20 hrs played

I have a love/hate relation with this game. It is a nice oldschool text rpg rougelite and varius random things can happen through out a campaign which makes replaying it very interesting. But the game is also so full of ♥♥♥♥. You are a battlehardened centurion fighting a group of unarmored farmers with pitchforks. To them, you are like Mars, the god of war. Your sword is among the finest the world has ever seen. You...