It'd make perfect sense.Īnd yet, I've been playing these games for years. It's precisely the kind of game that could so easily support microtransactions of various sorts - throw in energy that burns down every time you have a scrap and special equipment that can be purchased for gems (that can be purchased for real cash). In Swords and Sandals you fight, earn money to upgrade your armour and weapon, and then fight again. They were browser games, which makes seeing one on Steam slightly unnerving, and they introduced me to repetitive grind long before the new era of cleverphone games made that a norm I risk living with for a while every time I pluck something out of the app store. I played the first one years ago and I think it might have been on Newgrounds, the repository of Flash games and animations that I spent far too much time of in my late teens, and I've probably played every release since. Maybe I'm not the only person who's heard of this series after all! Then I noticed that Swords and Sandals 5 Redux is also on Steam. Most recently I was reminded when I saw new Steam release Warriors: Rise to Glory! which appears to be a Swords and Sandals game in all but name. Gladiatorial combat RPG Swords and Sandals has been part of my life for a very long time, and yet I sometimes forget that it exists. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.

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