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Expeditions: Rome

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2022

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Quick resume

Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?

Global score

88/100

Genres

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

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    Pros

    • Engaging tactical combat
    • Meaningful story and choices
    • Rich historical setting
    • Character and gear customization
    • High replayability

    Cons

    • Strategic legion battles feel shallow
    • Some repetitive mission design
    • Minor bugs and ui quirks
    • Combat animations can be slow
    • Crafting randomness can be tedious

    Motivations

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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      "Players enjoy immersion in historical setting and story as a form of escape and relaxation."

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    • Expectation

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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      "Players form emotional connections with characters through dialogue and story, fostering meaningful relationships."

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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