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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, you start as a freshly appointed centurion in Caesar's army, skilled and well
Patched Unity's CVE-2025-59489. I have also updated the free demo.
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 beginning of Caesar's Gallic campaign to the siege of Alesia. The free demo will rem
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 such a long time. And may I just say, without your constant support during these fi
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's Life , you will find familiar concepts, but there are also many big differen
It is almost a year since the game came out of early access and was released in its first complete form. I want to thank once again all of you players who have spent words of support and appreciation here on Steam and elsewhere. Today's update offers a description for each enemy
The main reason for today's update is to fix a couple of bugs that have been reported recently. While very difficult to stumble upon, they had the potential to be fairly annoying. I have also taken the opportunity to apply a few minor balance tweaks. Fixes Fixed a bug that could
Here's what's new in today's small update: The first change requires a little explanation: as the majority of you already know, when fighters use the Recover action and have not been attacked since their last turn, the action succeeds automatically with no roll involved. As usual
Over the course of the last months flori2412 has been working on a fan-made, entirely volunteer German translation of A Legionary's Life . Now this considerable amount of work (the text is nearly as long as an average novel) is completed, and his translation is available to every
There are several important news regarding the combat system. Visible chance of full success for Feints and Shield Attacks Actions like Feints and Shield attacks have always had two indicators: the first represents the primary, mostly Skill based check, and the second represents
I had to fix a glitch affecting the Health bar and wanted to add a very small feature that was quite straightforward to implement, then I decided I might as well try tweaking a few parameters. Workouts are initially 50% more likely to improve your Attributes. The odds will drop a
Today's update is very small, but important. Besides a minor accessory improvement to the engine, I have made a few tweaks that will affect the balance of the earlier phases of the game. Your Sword, Shield and Javelin Skills will start at 29, 29 and 26 respectively, instead of 29
I haven't done it in a while, so before talking about this patch, I'd like to thank all of you who have shown support and appreciation; unconventional indie games such as this can only exist thanks to your constant encouragement. As for today's update: Added full localization sup
Several changes are related to foraging missions, including a couple of rare but nasty bugs. I have also extended the tooltips of Feints and Shield attacks to avoid misunderstandings about the effective chance of success of actions that have two indicators: the actual chance is t
List of changes in version 1.1.4 When characters fail to Recover twice in a row, their chance to succeed is increased by 16% for each further consecutive attempt. The increase is 8% if the character is Fatigued and 4% if Tired. Exhausted character do not benefit from this bonus.
When I began developing A Legionary's Life , a little over two years ago, the day of release was a destination so distant I could barely see it. There was so much to do to make it possible, it was scary to think about. It has been a daunting task, working alone on such a long-ter
I am elated to announce that A Legionary's Life will be released on September 25, 2019 . As I mentioned earlier, the big update of two weeks ago pretty much completed the story and content. The next update will consist of small new features, tweaks and fixes aimed at polishing th
This is arguably the most important update since the Early Access began: it delivers the third and last campaign, set during the Second Macedonian War. It consists of 3 parts, 9 new random events, many fixed events (they range from a couple of lines to more complex situations), n
As I mentioned in my previous announcement, the update containing the Second Macedonian War and the ending will be released on August 29th . With that, A Legionary's Life will be complete and playable from the beginning to the end. But there is more: contrary to my original inten
This update was not planned, but it became necessary after a couple of problems were reported. As a consequence, some balance changes that were aimed at accommodating the yet unreleased parts set in Greece are present before their intended time. Well, no harm done: it's a good ch