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Never Second In Rome is an excellent combat/management hybrid RPG

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A UI heavy with text and numbers portrays a battle between your Roman centurion and an enemy in Never Second In Rome.
Image credit: RPS / Alessandro Roberti

In ancient times, there was a game called A Legionary's Life. It was an entertaining RPG/simulation about trying to stab dudes by training the right skills, and exploiting them with the right decisions.

Never Second In Rome is a similar concept: what if you were a centurion instead? Why, you'd have to teach a whole company how to stab dudes, lead them in a complex but minimally fiddly battle system, and still fight off the enemy dudes who keep interrupting with their spears and weird, French opinions. It would consume you for days when you really, really have too little time already!

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