Swords and Sandals 5 Redux
Gladiatorial arena combat meets roguelike dungeon crawling in this RPG epic!
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3.23
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spammy, or outdated. Pros
- The story is phenomenal and well-received.
- The combat mechanics are generally good and engaging.
- The game maintains the spirit of the franchise.
Cons
- There are frequent game-breaking glitches that affect gameplay.
- Ads are intrusive and can cause crashes after battles.
- The difficulty balancing can be frustrating, making it hard for players to progress.
Most mentioned
- Game crashes/freezes during gameplay and after ads.
- Bugs that prevent players from progressing in the game.
- Unclear mechanics related to items and armor.
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2.50
All time rating average:
3.23
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-25 |  | | There's a glitch where the game will sometimes freeze during a level up. This causes you to have to reset and you lose the stat and ability points for that level. Also, I've stopped getting the prompt for the choice of Maximus armor or 5,000 gold upon the first visit to the armorer. Other than these issues, I enjoy the game. |
| 2024-02-22 |  | | Game breaking glitches! Among several, progress haulting glitches is one where an event occurs before it should. I have 250 moves to get to the next place but I can't because I am still in the pyramid and can't fight a champion to progress. Nothing left to do but take 250 actions in the dungeon forever. Given the age of the game, I doubt it is getting worked on and as old as this game is, this shouldn't be the case. |
| 2024-02-07 |  | | You can feel the spirit of the franchise in this game, but as always, way too many bugs and vague rules/items that never give you the answer/resolved and can result in lethal consequences. I'm still not sure what the last artifact does, and can't finish the Twin Bubbles quest after the main quest completion unexpectedly closes out all fighting options. Would have loved to fight either Belgrave or HeChaos when choosing what to do at the end, and ppl with arachnophobia shouldn't play this game. |
| 2023-12-17 |  | | Overall the game is wonderful! Love the campaign and the difficulty makes it where gaining experience or harder. But, one thing I will gripe about is the higher difficulty, enemies could just ignore my armor entirely. I could have five thousand armor, and the enemy could attack and take just my health. Unsure if this is a mechanic or a flaw, but it is tiring when it happens a lot. |
| 2022-04-08 |  | | The scaling is terrible. The attack chances are terrible. I can put all of my points into attack chance but the oppent will ALWAYS have a very high defence stat. A 80% chance of landing an attack means getting blocked 10 times in a row, untill you die. The arena isn't complete. The image ends at a certain point and is very ugly. You have to repair your armour. Didn't like this game. |
| 2021-09-06 |  | | I've got to play a previous version of this game and I need to say that in this new version I miss the level capping when it came to the EXP earned from fighting in dungeons. Usually it would get lower and lower the greater my level was. Now it stays the same and makes the game too easy for grinding based strategies. That's why I gave this game 4 stars only. Also good job with making it harder to find the pieces of grail. Ut used to be straight up boring. Now it's better. |
| 2021-04-09 |  | | The story is phenomenal, and the combat is good. I love the game itself, but there are some problems. The advertisements can be loud despite the game having sound turned off, and the game will crash completely upon leaving the ad. This would have been tolerable if I was not recently met with a game crash every time I try to load my gladiator. |
| 2021-03-31 |  | | After every battle there is an ad which crashes the game and you lose whatever you got in battle. Not true what the devs said on March 25th. This is March 30th, 2021 and the ads break/freeze the game! Just happened 3 times in a row. That's 3 times in 4 mins. So not fixed and ads not removed. Also just looked at their other games. WOW WHAT A SHAME. such a good game and series and all has avg. 3 star reviews. Wow did the dev really screw this up big time. What a waste and ruin of good games. |
| 2021-02-24 |  | | Nostalgic S&S user. The game defintely incentives ads. On many occassions the game will freeze as well, forcing you to close it out. After finally getting into the groove of the game and building my character up, I can no longer load it. Disappointing. |
| 2020-04-11 |  | | Its like the original game but with a decent dungeon crawler concept. But 1 thing bothers me. IF YOU PUT BLOODY ADS IN A GAME AND PEOPLE ARE FORCED TO WATCH THEM YOU SHOULD MAKE THE WHOLE GAME ACCESSIBLE FOR FREE PLAYERS. It infuriates me that you have to pay for a premium version just to play the whole game. Its either letting people pay for the game or make the game free and put ads in it. The game itself is decent, not the best but still decent. Dont get me wrong. The makers are just greedy |
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