

Swords and Sandals Spartacus
Whiskeybarrel Studios · 2019 · Action, Adventure, Indie, Platformer, Pixel Graphics
PC
Mixed41% · 29 📈 Making a comeback 50%
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About Swords and Sandals Spartacus
You are Spartacus, the gladiator who defied the corrupt tyrants of Rome!
One man who broke free from a brutal gladiator arena. One man who took on the most powerful legions in Ancient Rome. This is the story of the legendary ... SPARTACUS!
Now for the first time, take up the sword of the greatest gladiator ever and do battle with Rome yourself in this thrilling action combat platformer. From the dark dungeons under the Arena of Capua to the heights of Mt Vesuvius and beyond, you will battle brutal slave drivers, grizzled legionnaires and mighty centurions as you free the slaves of Rome.
One man who broke free from a brutal gladiator arena. One man who took on the most powerful legions in Ancient Rome. This is the story of the legendary ... SPARTACUS!
Now for the first time, take up the sword of the greatest gladiator ever and do battle with Rome yourself in this thrilling action combat platformer. From the dark dungeons under the Arena of Capua to the heights of Mt Vesuvius and beyond, you will battle brutal slave drivers, grizzled legionnaires and mighty centurions as you free the slaves of Rome.
An ALL NEW adventure from the creator of the legendary Swords and Sandals games!
- Huge action packed levels filled with challenging retro combat platforming. Fighting, fencing, zip lining, traps beyond belief. Spartacus will test you!
- A rich and detailed adventure across Ancient Rome and beyond. Climb mountains, explore brooding castles and dark mines on your great quest!
- Collect fabulous treasures and spend them on upgrading your weapons, shield and powers!
- Simple and intuitive combat. Block with your shield, throw javelins, unleash the power of your sword arm on your hapless foes.
- Beautiful retro pixel art straight out of a 1980s arcade cabinet. Moonlit nights come alive, trackless forests sway in the wind, demons saunter between worlds.
- Fight dozens of different enemy types from roman soldiers and rabid dogs to the demons of the underworld and even the gods themselves!
- No metroidvania gimmickry, no backtracking, no grinding. Just one man, his sword and a legion of Romans standing in his way.
- Test your mettle on permadeath mode for even more challenge!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It would be a really GOOD game if it weren't for the HUGE amount of bugs it has. The bridges make you fall into the map, with no other option than to restart, sometimes the character slows down for no apparent reason, if you spawn sometimes it doesn't allow you to jump etc etc. It makes it very difficult to enjoy the game having to restart and lose level progress.2 found this helpful
I dont care anymore this game is terrible, constant clipping and bugs with literally nothing to do with Swords and Sandals no thank you1 found this helpful
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Perfect ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Okay ☐ Bad ☐ Very stylized ☐ They're what they should be for what the game is ☐ MS Paint could make something better ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Fantastic ☐ Excellent ☐ Perfect ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Bad, but playable ☐ Just go watch paint dry ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Amazing ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not to bad ☐ Alright ☐ Bad ☐ My ears are bleeding ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Babies ☑ Young kids ☑ Young teens ☑ Older teens ☑ Adults ☑ Old people ☑ Anyone with a decent maturity level ☑ Anyone with a lack of maturity ☑ Anyone that is alive ☑ No one, not even your dog ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Just average ☐ A little better than average ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Better than good ☐ Fancy Pants Rich Boy ☐ NASA ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Can choose your difficulty setting ☐ No difficulty needed ☐ Just press 'W" ☐ Easy ☑ Medium ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Hard ☐ Verry Difficult ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if you like to collect things ☑ Only if you care about steam achievements ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Only if you car…1 found this helpful
this game plays like a first unity project, poorly coded, very glitchy, for some reason a platformer, odd design decisions. don't play this, this was never tested, you can and will clip through the floor and get stuck, probably because whatever pushback system was implemented to push the player out of the wall instead pushes the player into the wall
if you die running around/midair, you might respawn stuck at walking speed or unable to jump. falling down might lock your screen looking down. upgrading wall jump did not seem to add extra jumps, only minimal height increase. clearing a stage can overlap music playing. also, more score comes from time than treasures, meaning speedrunning is rewarded instead of exploration. finally, don't see a book collection, so can't read all the chapters unless you wanna go back and play all the levels again.
This game is extremely buggy which is very sad to see, i really love the S&S franchise and was pretty hyped when i saw this spinoff. This game is riddled with bugs everywhere which is almost 'playable' [spoiler] but then after you defeat the last boss you play through the game again but basically harder [/spoiler] this is where the game gets close to unplayable. Some enemies are completely op and broken mixed with all the bugs made me quit after clearning the second level in the 'harder' part of the game. 3/10 - Don't bother getting this until bugs get fixed (which they most likely won't considering this was released in 2020 and the bug are still here)
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