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A grim fantasy management sim about training slave gladiators for hybrid real-time/turn-based combat, with a very lengthy campaign.

Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena
A compact fantasy management sim where you run a gladiator academy, training fighters and expanding your influence.
2016-10-21
- Action

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Games like Blackthorn Arena

A grim fantasy management sim about training slave gladiators for hybrid real-time/turn-based combat, with a very lengthy campaign.

Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena
A compact fantasy management sim where you run a gladiator academy, training fighters and expanding your influence.
2016-10-21
- Action

Adventure

Indie

Role-playing (RPG)

Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue

A fantasy guild-management battle sim with auto-battler combat and strategic depth, offering around 27 hours of play in its prologue.

2020-08-27

Gods of Sand

A compact gladiator-management sim with turn-based combat and a dark Roman setting, mixing arena fights, training, and tower conquest in pixel graphics.

2026-04-14

Strategy
Side view
Simulator

The Monster Breeder

A turn-based gladiator-management RPG about breeding, mutating, and fighting monster hybrids, with a rough-around-the-edges ~13-hour campaign.

2025-05-06

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)
Sandbox

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged

A single-player management sim about running a gladiator arena, with refreshed graphics and all DLC, offering a challenging strategic loop that reviewers logged around ten hours into.

2024-11-02

Strategy
Third person
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

Mortal Glory

A methodical tactical roguelike about managing a gladiator team through a brutal, turn-based tournament.

2020-01-29

Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

Together in Battle

A turn-based strategy RPG about managing and growing a team of gladiators through tactical battles and emergent relationships, with a light conspiracy plot and a roughly 80-hour campaign.

2025-05-06

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

Mortal Glory 2

A compact single-player tactical roguelike about managing a gladiator team through turn-based combat and item synergies, with mostly positive reviews.

2024-03-04

Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

Bloodgrounds

A tactical gladiator-management RPG with roguelite permadeath and dense arena battles.

2026-03-12

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Tactical
Indie
Side view
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

Gladiator Manager

A single-player gladiator management sim with tactical battles and a relaxed ~17-hour campaign.

2021-01-28

Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Sport

Swords and Sandals Immortals

A brutal, over-the-top turn-based gladiator arena RPG with fast combat, diverse builds, and online PvP, lasting about 11 hours.

2023-03-09

Strategy
Fantasy
Role-playing (RPG)

Swords and Sandals 3 Redux

A roughly 4-hour turn-based gladiator RPG remaster with swingy combat, monster taming, and adjustable difficulty options.

2025-11-11

Strategy
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Role-playing (RPG)

Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena