Imperator: Rome Reviews

Imperator: Rome is ranked in the 75th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
9.5 / 10.0
Apr 25, 2019

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.

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92 / 100
Apr 25, 2019

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

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9 / 10.0
Apr 25, 2019

Imperator: Rome feels like it's yet another step in Paradox's attempts to make the perfect grand strategy game. It pulls bits from Paradox's storied past in the genre and adopts it for the ancient era. Because of this, it doesn't feel like past releases where the game does one thing fantastically and falters in the rest of the mechanics but instead refines past mechanics into a marble bust of megalomaniacal fun. Ave Imperator: Rome!

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9 / 10
Apr 25, 2019

Imperator Rome is a monument of the strategy game. Surely one of the most complete games from Paradox. It is a real journey for the mind and it will make you experience Greek-Roman antiquity as in way that has been too rarely been used in video games before. A pure jewel.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 24, 2019

Imperator Rome is a great example of an entertaining historical game developed by Paradox studios. I was able to manipulate the fates of great empires and easily engage in wars, coups or intrigues. It's a difficult game to review because you want to play it all the time.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 25, 2019

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

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9 / 10.0
Feb 16, 2021

Heirs of Alexander is a good paid expansion, even considered apart from the free update. The Diadochi wars are fascinating and complex. I played quite a bit as the Antigonids and I still have options to explore. The other successor kingdoms have the same amount of content. For anyone who exhausts the stories of the Diadochi, there's more to discover and more places to conquer when playing as Rome, Carthage, and the rest, making Imperator a joy to return to.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 25, 2019

Every game of Imperator: Rome may have you winning or suffering defeat in the Punic wars as the titular Rome. But how many of those games did you have your rival, the leader of Carthage, tossed into an arena, and forced him to duel his son to the death? Of course, when he won, you granted him full rights of a citizen and brought his surviving family members into the fold, and a generation later, they were your most staunch supporters.

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8.5 / 10.0
Apr 26, 2019

Imperator: Rome is the new Paradox's grand strategy, an absolute certainty in the genre.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jun 13, 2019

Imperator is a strong instalment to the Paradox catalogue. It has a much stronger military focus than other Paradox games, and though it implements many mechanics of other Paradox titles, it can be somewhat limited in options for the player. The music, visuals and warfare are a major plus point however.

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T.J. Hafer
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2019

Imperator: Rome packs more interesting strategic systems and detail into its vast historical sandbox simulation than its interface can fully handle, but they produce some excellent political scheming and warfare.

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8 / 10
Apr 25, 2019

As Imperator grows in scale from its Clausewitz cousins, so too it grows in depth and ultimately in unwieldiness. But there's a grand strategy with aeons of play in it for you.Phil Iwaniuk

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4 / 5.0
Apr 27, 2019

What Imperator: Rome does, it does impeccably well. Like Paradox games have been doing for years now, it will devour hours and whole days of your life, and you will give them willingly.

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8 / 10
May 2, 2019

Imperator: Rome is the natural next step in the evolution of titles made by Paradox Development Studio. It does not offer much innovation, but what it does, it does really well. deep and multi-layered gameplay system is sure to both engage and excite the player to a great degree. However technical issues prevent this otherwise great title to reach its full potential.

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Apr 26, 2019

Imperator: Rome combines the best parts of Europa Universalis: Rome into a bigger, more ambitious package. A great entry point for those interested in grand strategy games.

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7.5 / 10.0
Apr 25, 2019

A very Paradox game, in both a good and bad way. It has all the hallmarks of a good game, and I look forward to seeing continued development as time goes by.

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75 / 100
May 17, 2019

Imperator: Rome has some rough edges and it's not quite up to par with the excellent games Paradox usually churns out, but at the same time, it is still a challenging and rewarding experience that's bound to keep you engaged for long stretches.

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7 / 10.0
Apr 25, 2019

Rome: Imperator is one of Paradox's biggest and best games - it also has a bigger focus on military expansion than their other games.

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7 / 10.0
May 3, 2019

Imperator: Rome's audience is inherently limited, and it's shoddy tutorial and lack of game modes won't attract new players, but if you dig managing ancient empires through a series of menus, you'll probably have a good time.

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7 / 10.0
Jun 24, 2019

This is not one of the best grand strategy games from Paradox Interactive, however still good, especially for new players.

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