Gladiators Arena: Idle Tycoon

Starting with the good, the graphics are pleasant and easy to look at for extended periods, the tutorial is actually useful, and you can technically play without paying anything. Now for the reality. The game is riddled with voluntary ads and when going to your arena, there’s piles of pop ups about all the different things you can buy. The game IN NO WAY IN ANY UNIVERSE IS WHAT YOU SEE ADVERTISED. Listen up well devs, advertising one product and providing a different one is not a particularly good idea. There’s also no logic to the combat. I fought a single beast while having 1000 more combat power and all my gladiators died. But moving to the second to last issue, if there is any issue with the game that requires legal action, you are forced into arbitration instead of being able to peruse the proper legal process. So rest assured that if the devs do something scuzzy or illegal, there’s no recourse except for an expensive private one that will favor the devs. Finally, you apparently own the rights to “user content” but cannot use it for anything and the devs can use it for everything. The game is functional, so it gets 3 stars, but it’s simply not what’s advertised and becomes very boring very quickly.

I’ve been playing this game consistently for a few months now. I didn’t put any money into the game until two months in for a battlepass-esq thing. I was able to, and continue to progress, with no money added. I actually have a bunch of their in game currency (around a hundred+ dollars worth) just from doing daily’s regularly. That’s all to say that this game is a fun, idle type game that has little to no pay-to-win aspect within itself. It’s very entertaining and has a lot of progression. I’m getting close to endgame gameplay so I wish there were a few more things to do but their new additions with mini-games and such are a breath of fresh air. Overall, I’d give it a 5/5. The combat is satisfying, the progression is consistent, and overall it’s rather fun with a few layers of complexity. If this is read by the developers, I’d really like for the addition of some sort of clan/group that you can create and do events with so that me and my friends could play together.

When I started the game I did some of the tutorial and got to where I had to recruit another gladiator but I closed the game and opened again but I didn’t start where I left off but instead it said that there was now something I can click on to do the main missions but there was nothing there and I couldn’t click on the menus well not exactly It did work but only once a while but it didn’t even matter tho cuz I couldn’t click anything in the different menus I tried to delete the data to restart the game and also use the repair thing in the loading screen and nothing worked if u find some way to fix let me know so I can try the game cuz it seems fun