Imperator: Rome
7.0
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- PCApr 25, 20197.0playscore8.023 Critics5.213.1K Players
23 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms
Critic Reviews
- Imperator: Rome is an example of how hard it can be to reconcile gameplay and history. On launch, the game failed to deliver the mix that players expected from Paradox. The Marius update, especially with the tweaks to warfare, is closer to the historical record while also offering gamers plenty of agency.
Cosmin Vasile · Feb 16, 2021 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Imperator: Rome feels undercooked. As it stands, it's a strange mish-mash of several of Paradox's existing (and, let's be honest, superior) games without much to distinguish or recommend it. Paradox recently outlined a "One Year Plan" for the title in an effort to reassure players that they are aware of its shortcomings and intend to address them. That roadmap appears insubstantial to my eyes, but we'll see when we get there. For now, Imperator: Rome remains a decidedly modest strategy game.
David Wildgoose · Jun 18, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Imperator: Rome's audience is inherently limited, and it's shoddy tutorial and lack of game modes won't attract new players, but if you dig managing ancient empires through a series of menus, you'll probably have a good time.
Will Borger · May 03, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - But even with that little niggle, it’s hard not to be very impressed with what Imperator: Rome has to offer. The feel of the game is exactly what Paradox promised: a true test of management of early civilisation on the brink of modernisation. You can develop your nation and expand to your heart’s content – but like the mighty Romans, you must constantly look outwards to your neighbours and inwards to your own people for threats and disturbances. Imperator: Rome truly has the depth and versatility to become one of Paradox’s finest.
Robert Gammon · Apr 25, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Huge, inventive and the reason I'm sleep deprived. It's brilliant.
Fraser Brown · Apr 25, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Imperator: Rome combines the quirks and mechanics of multiple Paradox titles, but it lacks the charm and depth to stand out on its own. It wore the trappings and regalia of Marcus Aurelius, yet, once removed, out came Commodus instead.
Jason Rodriguez · Apr 25, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Imperator: Rome feels like it's yet another step in Paradox's attempts to make the perfect grand strategy game. It pulls bits from Paradox's storied past in the genre and adopts it for the ancient era. Because of this, it doesn't feel like past releases where the game does one thing fantastically and falters in the rest of the mechanics but instead refines past mechanics into a marble bust of megalomaniacal fun. Ave Imperator: Rome!
Anthony Marzano · Apr 25, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - The amount of detailed, strategic stuff crammed into Imperator: Rome is equal parts impressive and daunting. It can come across at some times as rich and rewarding, and other times as crowded and chaotic. I suspect I’ll still be discovering new things about it even a hundred hours in, but it’s a testament to the strong warfare and politics, and to the outstanding map, that I’m eager to play another hundred hours or more.
TJ HAFER · Apr 24, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - Elsewhere the political systems are interesting and diverse (based on what we've experienced so far), although as we've already mentioned, we think a bit more personality from the characters would've made this portion of the game more memorable. There are lots of potential ways to tinker with your government and the recruitment process is vitally important and surprisingly nuanced, but otherwise, your options are kept as straightforward as possible, presumably to stop the whole thing from spiralling into an imbalanced mess of nonsensical intrigue.
Mike Holmes · Apr 30, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review - 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 you.
Phil Iwaniuk · Apr 25, 2019 Reviewed on PCRead full review
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Imperator: Rome is the newest grand strategy title from Paradox Development Studio. Set in the tumultuous centuries from Alexander’s Successor Empires in the East to the foundation of the Roman Empire.
Developer: Paradox Development Studio