Expeditions: Rome

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 72 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 14 out of 72
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  1. royalguy07
    Feb 21, 2022
    7
    Not my typical style of game but wanted to try something new. Enjoyed the setup and the progress through this. The names of characters became a little out of control and hard to keep track of. I enjoyed the overworld campaign conquests until the random events started repeating themselves. Combat was fun and engaging, I made it about halfway through the 2nd campaign overall. Want to comeNot my typical style of game but wanted to try something new. Enjoyed the setup and the progress through this. The names of characters became a little out of control and hard to keep track of. I enjoyed the overworld campaign conquests until the random events started repeating themselves. Combat was fun and engaging, I made it about halfway through the 2nd campaign overall. Want to come back and finish later in the year.… Expand
  2. RiZE
    Jan 21, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing game … Expand
  3. tabakista
    Jan 24, 2022
    10
    It's not a AAA title but if you look at the state of AAA games in last years its probably for the better.
    Viking was a good game but Rome makes a huge step forward in almost every game system.
  4. Aspids
    Jan 27, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Expeditions Rome is a singularly well written and designed game. There is a richness and a depth to the story and the characters that is rare in games, but that I have come to expect from the Logic Artist team.
    I especially like that the choices you make in the game has consequenses, that carries all through the game (and at least once the consequenses can be fatal for your companions) It shows that the devs have respect for the players.    … Expand
  5. donkusmaximus
    Jan 21, 2022
    9
    If you are a nerd for Rome you will like this game.
    If you are a nerd for tactical crpgs you will like this game.
    If you are a nerd for your men panicking in battle and killing their comrades you will love this game!
  6. Stellagrey
    Jan 27, 2022
    10
    A great game with huge replayability due to the choices you have to make and their consequenses.
    The mix between party and legion action is well balanced. The story is well written, good dialogue (with fantastic voice acting for most parts).
    The vision of Rome the game delivers is as correct as possible, considering this is a game, not a historical treatise.
  7. Galaction
    Feb 3, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yeah... this game's story was perfect up until the point where i was forced to sacrifice one of my servi or praetorians by burning them on a stake as an offering to some god, totally erasing and destroying the kind of character i was playing, the story was so good until this **** happened. Who the hell thought you should not have other options for this kind of stuff? why force the player to do this? why can't i just kill these pagans instead of sacrificing my own people? as much as i reloaded to a previous state of saves, there was no way to continue in the story, half way through act 3! and if there is and i missed it, i already gave up on it and uninstalled, gameplay was just ok, nothing outstanding.… Expand
  8. Welkinz
    Jul 20, 2022
    7
    The team tactic fighting part is the highlight of the game, but the strategy part of the game is just badly designed. War becomes a card game, many tasks become repetitive and time wasting, not to mention computer is set to attack you every time when you pacify a region. The long time wasted doing those big map quests eventually worn my patience out.
  9. Joewashere
    Jan 25, 2022
    3
    Both RPG and RTS promise a degree of autonomy, the suggestion of risk, reward, and reactivity to actions taken within the game. This title, however, has very narrow parameters which discourage meaningful play let alone player agency. You have a set objective, try anything else -such as preserving a fleet instead of burning it or appropriating arms being smuggled by your adversaries insteadBoth RPG and RTS promise a degree of autonomy, the suggestion of risk, reward, and reactivity to actions taken within the game. This title, however, has very narrow parameters which discourage meaningful play let alone player agency. You have a set objective, try anything else -such as preserving a fleet instead of burning it or appropriating arms being smuggled by your adversaries instead of burning them and the game just sends waves of enemy reinforcements until you succumb to sheer boredom.

    Your legion starts at half strength. Want to bring it back up to full? No matter how few or how many casualties you take in any given combat, you will be attacked every time you cross the 3/4 mark and knocked back down to half strength. Your legion can gain experience. Does it make any difference? No. Does morale make any noticeable difference? No. Do the cards (sorry, "tactics") make any difference? Not really. Big army wins.

    Any effort to improve gameplay was squandered by conventional industry standard and consumer safe design choices. The voice acting is good; However, in persuading others, you can't be witty, charming, and driven. You have to choose one, which will lock you into that path and out of all others. It would have been far more interesting to have dynamic dialogues where you have to try and figure out what sort of approach was most likely to work with guarded, jaded, and intelligent adversaries instead of just being relegated into predetermined outcomes based upon arbitrary criteria.

    Could have been great, but as it stands it simply is subpar. The fact that the devs disbanded and went to make NFT games doesn't really come as a surprise.    … Expand
  10. PerunTheGreat
    Feb 17, 2022
    10
    With historically viable character in character creation game is very authentic and writing is competent and smart. off course they can add crocodile but it is game that you roleplay literally as young Caesar replacement. It is written for young son in of old roman patrician family fallen on hard times. Latter they added character creation menu and options cause they must today.With historically viable character in character creation game is very authentic and writing is competent and smart. off course they can add crocodile but it is game that you roleplay literally as young Caesar replacement. It is written for young son in of old roman patrician family fallen on hard times. Latter they added character creation menu and options cause they must today.
    Gameplay is amazing . Care for every detail is there and love from developers for "good game" is clear. And they did it. Tactically is superior to Divinity games that i love and dialog is written by smarter people.
    If you like turn based game and history role play this is at least strong 9/10 if we are tuff but why not be generous and gave it 10 .    … Expand
  11. Scherzade
    Feb 16, 2022
    10
    Impressive game for turnbased rpg game.
    The historical part was really enjoyable as a roman history fan.
    Also impressed that they also respecting latin words in Voices. However, if you are playing in normal difficulties, and also you just.. gone thorugh picking basically any skills you encounter... you'll gonna have big trobule on progression. I blow up my save file for that one. :(    Impressive game for turnbased rpg game.
    The historical part was really enjoyable as a roman history fan.
    Also impressed that they also respecting latin words in Voices.

    However, if you are playing in normal difficulties, and also you just.. gone thorugh picking basically any skills you encounter... you'll gonna have big trobule on progression.
    I blow up my save file for that one. :( quite challenging really.    … Expand
  12. Nomac69
    Mar 19, 2022
    10
    I really loved this game. The sense of weighted decisions and branches of choices when solving an issue were really not something I've experienced since I played Tyranny. Amazing effort I hope there's a sequel.
  13. jupoan
    Jan 29, 2022
    0
    Immersion is not happening because of totally unbelieveable characters. The game advertises that you play a party of praetorians, an elite legion of the roman emperor. I uninstalled on the first appearance of Julius Callidus - a make belief tough woman in mans disguise. This would not have been possible within the praetorians. This PC **** in games is cancer. The only thing that works isImmersion is not happening because of totally unbelieveable characters. The game advertises that you play a party of praetorians, an elite legion of the roman emperor. I uninstalled on the first appearance of Julius Callidus - a make belief tough woman in mans disguise. This would not have been possible within the praetorians. This PC **** in games is cancer. The only thing that works is boykott of such pathetic tries to reeducate society.
    For everbody else i hope you can get rid of that Juli(a)us character and dont have to drag her with you the whole freaking game.    … Expand
  14. FredDie86
    Jan 23, 2022
    5
    The game is good, but has quite a few annoyances:
    - Bugs
    - Poor pathfinding - Clunky UI - Some poor design choices (who puts camera rotate to x/z??) - Legion battles are very underwhelming 2D minigame where choices almost dont matter (bigger army wins) - Some mechanics could be better explained. - Twitch drops and huge twitch banner on game main screen (no, I dont want to go to    The game is good, but has quite a few annoyances:
    - Bugs
    - Poor pathfinding
    - Clunky UI
    - Some poor design choices (who puts camera rotate to x/z??)
    - Legion battles are very underwhelming 2D minigame where choices almost dont matter (bigger army wins)
    - Some mechanics could be better explained.
    - Twitch drops and huge twitch banner on game main screen (no, I dont want to go to watch twitch streamers when I started the game..)
    - No minimap (would really be useful imo)
    - Camera is too zoomed in even on max zoom out - especially annoying in battles

    Special mention - Logic Arts is disbanding and devs joined company to do NFTs driven games:
    - No more Expeditions games
    - NFTs are cancer (very eco unfriendly, money laundering, lot of stealing and selling other peoples work) - supporting this is just sad.    … Expand
  15. Sbiritou
    Jan 25, 2022
    1
    I'm not even demanding historical accuracy, I'm just demanding a game set in Rome actually be more historically accurate than Caesar's Legion from FNV.
    The problem is the devs paying lip service to repressive Roman social norms, and then doing nothing with them.
    Why am I told in char creation that a woman doesn't have a first name, when it literally changes nothing in how the    I'm not even demanding historical accuracy, I'm just demanding a game set in Rome actually be more historically accurate than Caesar's Legion from FNV.
    The problem is the devs paying lip service to repressive Roman social norms, and then doing nothing with them.

    Why am I told in char creation that a woman doesn't have a first name, when it literally changes nothing in how the characters address me since they all use the nickname anyhow? Why does the tutorial officer tell me that I will obviously not take part in the fighting as a woman, but then I end up leading Roman soldiers and doing a bit of mass murder without anyone saying anything? It makes no sense and is completely jarring.

    If you want to present a digestible, whitewashed, Hollywood Rome then just do that without, yknow, drawing attention to actually how sexist and patriarchal it is, same as you did in Conquistador. At least then the argument premise of "it's fantasy-history" holds ground without the game world feeling cheap and with no weight behind the setting. Or stop being hacks and just have the "woman" choice as an actually meaningful hardmode in your historical video games. Like I can't believe mount and blade is the only game that attempted to do this properly.    … Expand
  16. Lenymo90
    Feb 12, 2022
    8
    A surprisingly great game from a small studio. It has a big score and lots of details. The Rome theme is quite interesting and the story gets better with time and you really get attached to some of the characters.
    The tactical turned based gameplay is wonderful and very addicting. I could play it all day and they added a lot of interested scenarios around it. But unfortunately, the rest    A surprisingly great game from a small studio. It has a big score and lots of details. The Rome theme is quite interesting and the story gets better with time and you really get attached to some of the characters.
    The tactical turned based gameplay is wonderful and very addicting. I could play it all day and they added a lot of interested scenarios around it. But unfortunately, the rest of the gameplay isn't on par and gets very repetitive and tedious very quickly. Loot systems are also below average. The good news is that you can ignore most of that and focus on the good parts.    … Expand
  17. toxyk
    Jan 27, 2022
    8
    Buen juego, con una historia interesante, tiene algunas mecánicas que se hacen pesadas, pero en lineas generales, un solido 8. La mayor pega es que esperaba un mayor poder de decision
  18. nurii29
    May 23, 2022
    0
    if you gonna write a dialog for some npc to call me "little one" at least give me option to cut him down gotta refund just for this because im "petty one"
  19. grimsfield
    Apr 28, 2022
    10
    Really great historical 4x game. Probably one of the best 4x titles I've played in the last few years.
  20. cyberdamn
    Jul 29, 2022
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I want to say it's a good game, but scenario is simply terrible. By the time the game forbade me from letting gauls kill lurco just because it was clear that the screenwriter is impotent.
    Also every fight with 10+ participants is really slow.    … Expand
  21. Zeltiko2018
    Feb 21, 2022
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. ER is a great xcomlike game. It makes you learning things about roman Right and the common life in time of Republic. But the contras are the antihistory over the acts of the game and the monotone of the mechanics.
    Even so you will enjoy tactical combats.    … Expand
  22. sir_peppiny
    Aug 27, 2022
    8
    Another solid entry in the Expeditions series. After the slight disappointment of Viking, I enjoyed Rome as much as Conquistador.

    Pros: Enjoyable story and setting, logical and interesting characters, fun gameplay, nice soundtrack (but still not as good as Conquistador's). The squad combat is very enjoyable and I really liked the talent trees and armor customization implementation.    Another solid entry in the Expeditions series. After the slight disappointment of Viking, I enjoyed Rome as much as Conquistador.

    Pros: Enjoyable story and setting, logical and interesting characters, fun gameplay, nice soundtrack (but still not as good as Conquistador's). The squad combat is very enjoyable and I really liked the talent trees and armor customization implementation. The character artwork and voice acting is great.

    Cons: There are a lot of mechanics to keep track of, but most are fairly shallow like the camp upgrades, resource management, and strategems. Looting is also an unnecessary burden; running around clicking bodies is not fun, just auto-loot at the end of the fight and show what you got. But my biggest complain is the presence of only four playable classes. The game really would have benefited from perhaps one or two classes from each region to add more flavor. Instead it felt like a chore when I had to use the B-team for pacification missions when it would have been the perfect opportunity for experimentation. My advice to the developer would be cut some of the more superfluous strategy elements and focus on enriching the squad battles.    … Expand
  23. Sepherim
    Nov 8, 2022
    8
    Expeditions: Rome es un juego muy sólido, aunque no perfecto. La base es una mezcla de juego de estrategia por turnos con elementos de rol, toma de decisiones y progresión de personajes. Y la fórmula funciona, es así de sencillo. No es el mejor juego de estrategia ni es el mejor juego de rol, pero consigue un equilibrio entre ambos aspectos que le sientan francamente bien. La historia noExpeditions: Rome es un juego muy sólido, aunque no perfecto. La base es una mezcla de juego de estrategia por turnos con elementos de rol, toma de decisiones y progresión de personajes. Y la fórmula funciona, es así de sencillo. No es el mejor juego de estrategia ni es el mejor juego de rol, pero consigue un equilibrio entre ambos aspectos que le sientan francamente bien. La historia no está mal, aunque tiene muchos momentos muertos especialmente si somos completistas, y tiene una buena descripción de la vida en la antigua Roma con algunas licencias para que el jugador sea el protagonista (y adoro el setting de Roma en general, así que con eso ya me tenían convencido!).

    Gráficamente es un juego discreto en su ejecución, pero tiene una buena estética fruto de que los lugares que visitas y los personajes son enormemente emblemáticos. El sonido cumple bastante bien, con una música que acompaña bien a los eventos, buenos efectos de sonido, y buen doblaje (al menos en inglés). Eso si, a mi me ha dado bastantes problemas en algunas partes, con reinicio de ordenador, momentos en que se colgaba y esas cosas, aún cuando mi hardware debería dar muy holgado para moverlo al máximo.

    Por todo ello, sin ser un juego perfecto, es sin duda un juego divertido y muy recomendable, que recorre a su manera uno de los periodos más interesantes de la historia. Un 7,5.    … Expand
  24. elazf
    Jan 20, 2023
    10
    Oynadığım en iyi oyunlardan biriydi herkesin oynamasını tavsiye ederim keşke Expeditions: Rome 2 çıksa da oynasak dedmim çoğu zaman çok zevk aldım oyundan sırf oyuna yorum yapabilmek için hesap açtım normalde hiçbir oyuna yorum yazmam herkesin oynaması gereken bir oyun
  25. Bushido_DZ95
    Feb 26, 2023
    8
    I love THQ Nordic for not being afraid to experiment and create unusual games and EXPEDITIONS: ROME is one of them. My only complaint is the art design in some cases.

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80

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
  1. Jeuxvideo.com
    Mar 27, 2022
    75
    Expeditions: Rome touches a bit of everything and, if it does not succeed in making a perfect copy on its conquest and exploration component, it does rather well on its tactical combats and its very pleasant story to follow. If you're not too sensitive to technique and some heaviness in the game's pace, you should have a good time in the heart of the Roman Empire, building your own legend and pursuing your quest for revenge.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Feb 23, 2022
    68
    The worst problem is that combat, skill management and trying out tons of various swords are quite boring as a main dish, and Expeditions: Roms has nothing extra to offer.
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  3. Movies Games and Tech
    Feb 23, 2022
    85
    Thanks to a solid turn-based combat system and an extremely convincing set of characters and an enthralling story, Expeditions: Rome manages to be a great RPG but a not so great strategy game.
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