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Posted April 29, 2019
Check the reviews and see the game in action before buying.

The newest grand strategy from Paradox Development Studio is one of the biggest releases of April. Imperator: Rome invites you to relive the pageantry and challenges of empire building in the classical era and according to media reviews its a challenge worth taking.

The game currently has 81 points on Metacritic with top scores of 9.5/10 from Gaming Nexus and 92/100 from PC Gamer. It's been praised for the grand scale, complex gameplay mechanics, and depth that allows for hundreds of hours of play. Check out some of the review quotes below.


Huge, inventive and the reason I'm sleep deprived. It's brilliant. - PC Gamer


Imperator treats you to one of the most involved and interesting combat systems I’ve seen in the genre. - IGN


A good game with a lot of depth - just what one would expect from Paradox. Play it through once or twice just for fun, then grab one of the strategy guides that will be popping up to more fully appreciate the mechanics. - Gaming Nexus


(...) go ahead and buy it as it is a definitive Paradox grand strategy set in the ancient era. - Destructoid


Imperator: Rome truly has the depth and versatility to become one of Paradox’s finest. - GameSpew



Want to see more before buying Imperator: Rome? Check out the video from our Stream Team's 5 hours long multiplayer match with tons of insightful details about the game.



Paradox Development Studio already announced it is working on delivering a cross-store multiplayer for Imperator: Rome. Currently, owners of the GOG.COM version can play with both GOG.COM and Paradox Store users, while in the future it will be possible to compete with all strategy fans out there.

Grab the Base Game now or Deluxe Edition with the Art Book, wallpapers, and the Hellenistic Flavor Pack.
Posted April 29, 2019
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richlind33: Why waste time reading reviews when you can watch gameplay and judge for yourself? o.O
I tend to avoid video reviews, honestly the main reason might be that I can't stand to listen to almost any of the people who do them =D I usually either get annoyed by their voice and way of speaking, or cringe at their attempts at being funny…

Also, I don't think I would get a lot of additional information out of it. It's good to see a little bit of a game in action before buying, but a gameplay trailer can usually do that, too. In a review, I'm looking for the perspective of someone who has played the game for a longer time. Why I'm trying to learn from it can be presented in text no worse than in video. And if I have the choice between reading or watching a video, I'll always pick the text.
Posted April 29, 2019
To Paradox's defense, I believe it's not fair to critise their original releases regarding standards and bugs.

Decades ago, especially with the Europa Engine, their games always were broken at their release. It's only when they used and began to masterise the Clausewitz Engine, that the number of bugs droped radically. Maybe it's then when people get acustomed to this new standard regarding quality and bugs in Paradox games.

So blaming Paradox for bugs... It's a bit like Egosoft in another game genres. You obviously know that the games won't run perfectly at all at release. I usually blame Paradox for DLC, true, but that's another subject.

It's probably time for Paradox to reconsider the Clausewitz Engine and to work on another (I presume it's already the case internally).
Posted April 29, 2019
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Huinehtar: To Paradox's defense, I believe it's not fair to critise their original releases regarding standards and bugs.

Decades ago, especially with the Europa Engine, their games always were broken at their release. It's only when they used and began to masterise the Clausewitz Engine, that the number of bugs droped radically. Maybe it's then when people get acustomed to this new standard regarding quality and bugs in Paradox games.

So blaming Paradox for bugs... It's a bit like Egosoft in another game genres. You obviously know that the games won't run perfectly at all at release. I usually blame Paradox for DLC, true, but that's another subject.

It's probably time for Paradox to reconsider the Clausewitz Engine and to work on another (I presume it's already the case internally).
I don't agree.

Simply put, the only reason there's so many bugs at release of a game, DLC, or/and a patch, it's because they don't test their game/DLC/patch before release. Why ? Because it cost money and you guys will test it for them for free. And you guys will be ok with it based on that logic of yours and similar logic.

Also, did you see that update coming up ? Well, if it wasn't for all the negative reviews, that update would've been the first DLC. Because they are used to most players, just like you, being ok with everything they do. But this time, people actually had enough of paradoxian bull****. And that's a good thing. Paradox finally will have to work a bit harder this time.
Posted April 30, 2019
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Really promoting biased paid for reviews that will always talk how good a game is even if its total shit?

As it stands now, the general consensus is that the game is not finished, buggy, has content cut for dlc (some of that content will now be released as a free patch after the player outrage).

At this point its better to wait a year or two or three if need be when this game is actually finished. At this moment it seems to be in an early access state from what people are saying.

I love Paradox games but they are releasing more and more games with lack of content. This was obvious already when they released Stellaris which was a hollow game until it got patched up heavily and missing content was added through pay for dlc. And not to forget HoI IV which is a hollow, boring game without the dlc.

Well its Paradox after all the godfather of content cutting and dlc spamming.
Post edited April 30, 2019 by Matruchus
Posted April 30, 2019
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Matruchus: I love Paradox games but they are releasing more and more games with lack of content. This was obvious already when they released Stellaris which was a hollow game until it got patched up heavily and missing content was added through pay for dlc.
They are milking 4X fans, so that they can expand the company (new studios, buying IPs etc) and publish lots of other games.
Posted April 30, 2019
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Matruchus: Really promoting biased paid for reviews that will always talk how good a game is even if its total shit?

As it stands now, the general consensus is that the game is not finished, buggy, has content cut for dlc (some of that content will now be released as a free patch after the player outrage).

At this point its better to wait a year or two or three if need be when this game is actually finished. At this moment it seems to be in an early access state from what people are saying.

I love Paradox games but they are releasing more and more games with lack of content. This was obvious already when they released Stellaris which was a hollow game until it got patched up heavily and missing content was added through pay for dlc.

Well its Paradox after all the godfather of content cutting and dlc spamming.
You mean this is deja vu? Who nu? ;p
Posted April 30, 2019
why do review highlights on this game specifically?
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tfishell: why do review highlights on this game specifically?
Paradox probably paid gog for this.
Posted April 30, 2019
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tfishell: why do review highlights on this game specifically?
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Matruchus: Paradox probably paid gog for this.
Sounds like a wild conspiracy. That's probably true.
Posted April 30, 2019
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Matruchus: Paradox probably paid gog for this.
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richlind33: Sounds like a wild conspiracy. That's probably true.
Don't be naive. Do you think a store does these things for free. Its a business after all. Its only sensible for them to get compensated for guided marketing.
Post edited April 30, 2019 by Matruchus
Posted April 30, 2019
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richlind33: Sounds like a wild conspiracy. That's probably true.
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Matruchus: Don't be naive. Do you think a store does these things for free. Its a business after all. Its only sensible for them to get compensated for guided marketing.
I know, that's why I said it's probably true. Don't shoot! lol
Posted April 30, 2019
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Matruchus: Don't be naive. Do you think a store does these things for free. Its a business after all. Its only sensible for them to get compensated for guided marketing.
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richlind33: I know, that's why I said it's probably true. Don't shoot! lol
I'm sorry, english is not my first language :) I didn't get what you were trying to say with the sarcasm :)
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richlind33: I know, that's why I said it's probably true. Don't shoot! lol
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Matruchus: I'm sorry, english is not my first language :) I didn't get what you were trying to say with the sarcasm :)
People commonly make fun of conspiracy theories -- which are often humorously absurd -- but conspiracy is nevertheless an extremely common feature of the human landscape. ;p
Posted April 30, 2019
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Matruchus: At this point its better to wait a year or two or three if need be when this game is actually finished. At this moment it seems to be in an early access state from what people are saying.

I love Paradox games but they are releasing more and more games with lack of content. This was obvious already when they released Stellaris which was a hollow game until it got patched up heavily and missing content was added through pay for dlc. And not to forget HoI IV which is a hollow, boring game without the dlc.
Well, I learned a bit of a different lesson from Paradox: Don't buy their games until the final patch and DLC is released because they tend to treat their games as early access titles by making huge changes to their games that turns their games into being very different than before the patches.
Posted April 30, 2019
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Krogan32: Well, I learned a bit of a different lesson from Paradox: Don't buy their games until the final patch and DLC is released because they tend to treat their games as early access titles by making huge changes to their games that turns their games into being very different than before the patches.
I agree on that since that happened with Stellaris where they radically changed the gameplay with one patch that basically created a whole new game.
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