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Games Like Gladiator School

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Management, Strategy, Simulation, Indie.

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Gladiator School is a Tycoon-style simulation game. You play as the master of a newly formed school for gladiators. Your job is to prepare and train recruits before you send them away to fight for their survival and entertain the crowd in the arena.

Reviews: Mostly Positive — 72% — of 347 reviews
Released: 2017-11-09
Developer: Raptor Claw Games
Publisher: Millendream
Genres: Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 3.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 8.8 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 67%

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    Dev: Raptor Claw Games
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    BOXING SCHOOL! Take control of a boxing gym in the 80s. You’ll hire the boxers, teach them to fight and climb the ranks. Management game made by the developers of Gladiator School.

    Why similar: Simulation 18.7%, Strategy 18.1%, Management 16.9%, 2D Fighter 8.8%, Indie 6.8%

  2. #2 Football School
    96% matchMostly Positive75% of 89 reviews2020
    Dev: Raptor Claw Games
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    Football School - Take control of a sports club in a small town. Train your team, compete and climb the world ranking. Management game made by the developers of Boxing School.

    Why similar: Strategy 23.6%, Simulation 23.3%, Management 11.1%, Indie 8.9%, Great Soundtrack 7%

  3. #3 Gamer Career Tycoon
    96% matchVery Positive81% of 289 reviews2018
    Dev: Raptor Claw Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%

    Start your life as a simple gamer in the year 2000. Find popular games to stream or compete in 8 different Esports. Who will you be? Play your career and story. Can you become the most famous broadcaster or the best progamer in the world?

    Why similar: Simulation 29.7%, Management 17.2%, Indie 10.5%, RPG 10.1%, Great Soundtrack 9.8%

  4. #4 Academia : School Simulator
    95% matchVery Positive86% of 3,008 reviews2021
    Dev: Squeaky Wheel Studio IncPub: Paradox Interactive
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Design, build, and manage a high school with terrific teachers and fantastic facilities or simply let your students poop in the bushes? Academia : School Simulator is a management/tycoon game where you get to decide!

    Why similar: Management 36.1%, Simulation 26.9%, Strategy 23%, Funny 8.6%, 2D 5.4%

  5. #5 Age of Gladiators
    94% matchMostly Positive78% of 753 reviews2016
    Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    "Age of Gladiators" is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities.

    Why similar: Management 24.2%, Strategy 21.4%, Simulation 20.8%, Historical 13.9%, RPG 7.1%

  6. #6 Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue
    94% matchVery Positive93% of 1,551 reviews2020
    Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 36 minMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 32%

    Gladiator Guild Manager: Prologue is a battle sim about managing your own Gladiator Guild in an epic fantasy world. Build and run your own guild, hire and train gladiators, develop unique tactics, manage resources, compete for the rank in the arena, and much more.

    Why similar: Management 29.2%, Simulation 26.6%, Strategy 24.7%, Indie 8.6%, RPG 8%

  7. #7 Gladiator Guild Manager
    92% matchVery Positive81% of 3,874 reviews2024
    Dev: Entertainment ForgePub: GrabTheGames
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    A strategic autobattler sim where you build a team of gladiators, compete in arenas, plan fight tactics, and form alliances. Combine fighters, beasts, and mages, develop and equip them to optimize your well-oiled fighting machine, dominate the championships, and leave your mark on the world.

    Why similar: Management 40.1%, Strategy 33.8%, RPG 12.1%, Indie 10.4%, Singleplayer 3.6%

  8. #8 Age of Gladiators II: Rome
    93% matchMixed67% of 264 reviews2018
    Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Age of Gladiators II: Rome is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities. Build your story. Build your empire.

    Why similar: Management 26.1%, Strategy 24.8%, Simulation 20.3%, Historical 10%, Indie 8.8%

  9. #9 Ludus
    91% matchMixed68% of 860 reviews2020
    Dev: Cheesecake Dev
    Windows
    Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 61%

    Build the best ludus in the world! and survive in ancient Rome.

    Why similar: Simulation 25.4%, Strategy 19.9%, Management 14.7%, Historical 9.7%, Indie 7.7%

  10. #10 Game Dev Tycoon
    91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 44,663 reviews2013
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    In Game Dev Tycoon you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.

    Why similar: Management 37.6%, Simulation 30.5%, Strategy 14.3%, Indie 7%, Casual 2.9%

  11. #11 Game Dev Studio
    90% matchVery Positive85% of 676 reviews2018
    Dev: Explosive Squat Games
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 54%

    Welcome to your own Game Dev Studio! How will you run your own offices and ascend to greatness in the gaming industry?

    Why similar: Simulation 29.4%, Strategy 22.8%, Management 21%, Indie 8.6%, Great Soundtrack 5.4%

  12. #12 Gods of Sand
    89% matchVery Positive85% of 684 reviews2022
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    Windows · Linux
    Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Train gladiators. Manage a ludus. Fight in the arenas. Conquer the tower. Gods of Sand is a gladiator manager with intense turn-based combat, inspired by the Swords and Sandals series, in a dark and unforgiving setting.

    Why similar: Management 31.2%, Strategy 24.7%, Simulation 21.3%, Indie 8.6%, RPG 7%

  13. #13 Gladiator Manager
    89% matchMostly Positive78% of 116 reviews2021
    Dev: Eternity Games
    Windows

    Gladiator Manager is a sports management and tactical battle simulation game.

    Why similar: Simulation 37.1%, Strategy 35.9%, Indie 13.7%, Management 13.4%

  14. #14 Blackthorn Arena
    87% matchMixed69% of 3,780 reviews2020
    Dev: PersonaeGame StudioPub: Light Up Games
    Windows
    Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 18.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!

    Why similar: Management 29.2%, Simulation 26.5%, Strategy 26.1%, Difficult 15.5%, Singleplayer 2.8%

  15. #15 Gladiators and Glory
    86% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
    Dev: Oguz Kemerli
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    A Turn-Based Fighting Game Set in the Roman Era, where you can develop your Gladiators and fight them in arenas to increase the glory of your Ludus.

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    88% matchMixed59% of 357 reviews2018
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    Windows
    Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 52%

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    Windows
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    Windows · Linux
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    Windows
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    73% matchVery Positive90% of 191 reviews2020
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    75% matchMixed41% of 131 reviews2019
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    Windows

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    72% matchMixed58% of 106 reviews2023
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    Windows

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    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    Windows
    Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 83%

    Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in this management/simulation game. With new content, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.

    Why similar: Management 34.8%, Simulation 33.6%, Strategy 31.7%

  59. #59 Punch to Glory
    63% matchVery Positive90% of 50 reviews2025
    Dev: Musa GUNGOR
    Windows

    Start your journey as a boxer from the ground up, fighting your way to glory. Develop your character, collect fight cards, and face the challenges life throws your way. Train hard, manage stress, and give everything you've got to turn your championship dreams into reality.

    Why similar: Management 31.4%, Simulation 22.6%, Strategy 21.7%, Funny 10.6%, RPG 8.4%

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