A Legionary's Life
Text-based Roman soldier RPG with turn-based combat and permadeath
Alessandro Roberti · Released Sep 25, 2019
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 85% of 2,573
- Recent reviews
- Mixed
- 54% of 11 in 30 days
- Players
- 5
- daily peak, Nov 7, 2026
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update on Steam
- 1 year ago
- Oct 4, 2025
What is A Legionary's Life?
This mostly text-based RPG puts you in the role of a Roman soldier during the Second Punic War and beyond. You make decisions through attribute and skill checks and fight turn-based battles as you try to survive or rise through the ranks. Death ends a run, but your past performance earns points for your next soldier.
For you if...
- +you enjoy stories set in ancient Rome
- +you like turn-based combat with tactical choices
- +you enjoy building a new character after each death
Not for you if...
- −you want to reload after losing a character
- −you prefer real-time action over text-heavy decisions
- −you dislike replaying familiar events across runs
What players say
85% of 2,573 reviews are positive · 54% of 11 in the last 30 days
Players praise the writing, Roman setting, and turn-based combat. Many complain that random outcomes can make combat frustrating and that repeated events grow tedious across runs. Some also find the mechanics poorly explained.
How many players finish A Legionary's Life?
49% of Steam players have unlocked «Triumph», the achievement for finishing the main story.
Share of everyone who owns the game on Steam, including those who barely played it. Updated weekly.
Screenshots and trailer
A Legionary's Life system requirements
Minimum: Any with DX10 (shader mod…, 1 GB RAM, 0.2 GB of disk space.
As published by the developer.
Can my PC run A Legionary's Life?
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- OS
- Windows 7 SP1+
- Processor
- Any CPU with SSE2 instruction set support: Intel Pentium 4+, AMD Athlon 64+
- Graphics
- Any graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 200 MB available space
Does A Legionary's Life have co-op or multiplayer?
No: single-player only, no multiplayer modes declared.
Does A Legionary's Life run on Steam Deck?
Untested Not yet tested by Valve on Steam Deck.
PC version details
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 40
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
- Languages
- Text only: English, German.
Does A Legionary's Life use AI-generated content?
No AI-generated content is disclosed on the game's Steam page.
Self-reported by the developer under Steam rules: it covers AI content that ships in the game, not tools used to make it. Steam page checked on Oct 25, 2026. How to filter AI games on Steam
Tags
- Rome
- Historical
- RPG
- Turn-Based
- Turn-Based Combat
- Replay Value
- War
- Perma Death
- Pixel Graphics
- Old School
- Text-Based
- Retro
- Roguelite
- Singleplayer
- Roguelike
- Choices Matter
Recent updates
- Oct 4, 2025 · Update 2025 10 04
- Sep 14, 2020 · Update 1.3.14
- Jun 15, 2020 · Update 1.3.10
- Apr 15, 2020 · Update 1.3.7
- Feb 24, 2020 · Update 1.3.1
