Developer posts and news about this game.
Hello, After more than 16 months of Early Access... Space Gladiators is finally launching in version 1.0! Here's a quick summary of everything that's been added and changed during Early Access: 2 new characters 167 new items / perks / traits 21 new enemies 8 new traps 3 new minib
The Turkish language is now available in the game. Special thanks to Gowner and the LG studios team for that!
Hello, We now have trading cards, emotes, backgrounds and badges for the game! Not totally sure how that works but you should be able to get some of them by just playing. Also wanted to let you know that Space Gladiators will likely be released in 1.0 later this month. It's been
Special thanks to Emilio Tolsada (1) and Sensei Bean (2) for their help! New stuff New language: Spanish (1) Balancing Fakir Training: 20% chance to block trap damage => 50% Hell’s Dagger: +1 up damage per devil item taken => +2 Carving Knife: 8% to get item on a corpse =&g
Hello, Thanks to more awesome people, the game is now available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Polish! I’ve also added some more items, fixes and balancing tweaks. Special thanks to Bear (1), Petra (2), Traumaturgy (3), TheSpaceEgg (4), Funguy (5), Devildoer (6),
Hello, Thanks to the work of some players, the game is now available in 2 more languages: Portuguese (BR) and Russian. If you also want to help bring the game into your own language, feel free to head out to Localizor and start translating! I also took the opportunity to push som
Hello, A small update today, featuring items from the community vote back on the Discord server! It has actually been lingering on the beta branch for some time now. A lot of things on the backend had to be fixed and cleaned-up to be able to implement the crowd sourced translatio
Hello, Space Gladiators is now available on Localizor , a website used for managing crowd-sourced translations! It has been recommended by a lot of other cool indie devs and it looked like a simple and elegant solution so I wanted to give it a try. I spent the last few weeks fixi
Hello, This week we got some more new items and bug fixes. We also got the game verified on Steam! You might have noticed that the achievements for beating the bosses with the 2 new characters were missing. That’s because we had a limit of 100 achievements since the game wasn’t v
Hello, We’re back with our smaller more regular content updates! This one adds a few new items, rooms, bug fixes and balance changes. On another note, my engine got a big update a few days ago and it broke a lot of things. I hopefully fixed it all but you might see weird things i
Hello, We’re finally here! Lost Potato and Space Gladiators’ update 0.8.0 are now live! Make sure to check out Lost Potato if arcade-ish top-down roguelite sounds like something you’d enjoy, it really helps support my work! It means two brand new characters to unlock, three new m
Hello, A quick announcement to let you know that the next big update (new character??) will be out this Friday! And also a whole other game: Lost Potato! Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bulle
Hello, Space Gladiators is currently available at 20% off for the Steam Summer Sales! Wanted to make this quick announcement to let you know that I'm planning on increasing the price once the event is over. This means the current discounted price is probably the best deal you'll
Hello, French is finally here! Now that the game is setup for localization, adding more languages will be way faster. But they’ll come later when the content is more stable. I also added 11 new traits / items / perks and polished the menus a bit. Next up is some more exciting stu
Hello, The main focus of this update is to improve the game’s performance and to fix some important crashes that would delete your save file. I’m not going to go into too much details but know that you’ll now experience some loading at the following times: Launching the game Star
Hello, I noticed that the old arena rewards were almost forcing you into a certain specific playstyle. You'd basically find perks giving you a Heart or a Pet every run even if you didn't like playing with these items. To fix that, this update adds 26 new perks and the ones relati
Hello, This week’s been pretty crazy! I got a lot of feedback and I tried to implement most of it in this update. I also added 6 new items, fixed a lot of stuff and did some work on balancing the game. One big problem that I kept seeing is that a lot of the time you could just fa
Hello, Thank you all for the reception to latest update, it’s been great! There will be a few smaller ones now to add more content and to smooth out some rough edges. Special thanks to Rogue Justice (1) and TheTurtleMelon (2) for their suggestions! New stuff Added 14 new Traits.
Hello, Today we're celebrating 6 months of Early Access! The game has changed so much since the launch. With our biggest update yet just going live, I figured this would be a good time for the first sale of the game. So during the next week, you can get Space Gladiators with a 10
Hello, Welcome to the game’s biggest update yet! I’ve received a lot of feedback and ideas over the last 2 months and I tried my best to implement them. The main goals of this update are twofold: Improve the diversity of the game with new subzones and hundreds of new rooms, traps