Imperator: Rome

Overview

TechSpot Metascore

Based on 12 expert reviews

Excellent:

5
Good:

6
Average:

0
Bad:

1

7.6

User Score

Based on 16,372 reviews
as rated by users

Pros:

Great use of characters to simulate back-stabbing politics.

Cons:

Can become a bit of a grind after a while

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Last revision on May 11, 2023

Reviewers Liked

Great use of characters to simulate back-stabbing politics

Reviewers Didn't Like

Can become a bit of a grind after a while

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The latest grand strategy game from the genre's current leading light, Paradox Interactive, puts you at the helm of one of the great powers of the late 4th century B.C. and asks you to conquer the world from western Europe to southern Asia. At the same...

By GameSpot on June 18, 2019

Imperator: Rome has some rough edges and it's not quite up to par with the excellent games Paradox usually churns out, but at the same time, it is still a challenging and rewarding experience that's bound to keep you engaged for long...

By New Game Network on May 17, 2019

100

All this to say: It has potential. Imperator: Rome attempts to wrangle Paradox's entire legacy into a single all-encompassing game. It hasn't got there, not yet, but I know it can get there—and probably will, given Paradox's track record. It's just a...

By PCWorld New Zealand on April 27, 2019

A hallmark of excellence. There may be flaws, but they are negligible and won't cause massive damage.How we score: The Destructoid reviews...

By Destructoid on April 25, 2019

Let's just get this out of the way up front: Imperator:Rome is a good game, and you should go out and buy it. This will likely be the definitive game covering the era of the early Roman empire for some time to come.That being said, what exactly is good...

By Gaming Nexus on April 25, 2019

Huge, inventive and the reason I'm sleep deprived. It's...

By PC Gamer on April 25, 2019

As Imperator grows in scale from its Clausewitz cousins, so too it grows in depth and ultimately in unwieldiness. But there's a grand strategy with aeons of play in it for...

By pcgamesn.com on April 25, 2019

The experience of playing a grand strategy game from Swedish developer Paradox Interactive for the first time is a distinctive one.You pick a country, civilisation or state of some kind and dive straight into a huge real-time world map where, at...

By TheStraitsTimes on May 22, 2019

I want an empire, and I want my crazed kids to fiddle as hundreds of years of history burn to the ground. That’s the promise of Imperator: Rome, a sprawling epic for an epic era. It’s no surprise Paradox hasn’t captured all that intricacy from the start, but like Rome itself, there’s a lot more construction ahead.

By PCWorld on April 29, 2019

I've been wondering for years what a Paradox grand strategy game would look like if it was designed for regular humans, and in Imperator: Rome I have my answer.As long-time readers may know, I'm a big fan of Paradox's grand strategy games, Crusader...

By kotaku.com on April 25, 2019

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