EDIT: Ok so after chatting with a few people about my issues it seems like the problem I'm having is I didn't realise that this wasn't actually an auto-battler. I guess I'm actually supposed to manually control my gladiators initially because reasons. One of those rare instances when you expected an auto-battler but ended up getting a fake one...go figure.

I've put over 7 hours into this 'game' which coincidentally is more hours then a fair number of these positive reviews. I always find it interesting when I see a positive review from like a month ago and the person only has like 0.2 hours logged into the game. Maybe a few paid reviews from the dev team maybe?

I really tried to like this game but it's just designed in a very specific way and they didn't bother added in multiple difficulties to cater to different play styles. This game feels like it's designed for a more casual player but ends up requiring a lot of patience due to a slightly unfair difficulty curve in the beginning. My advice for any casual gamers looking for a fun god game to look elsewhere, TABS, UEBS or even Rimworld are better alternatives.

EDIT: Ok so after chatting with a few people about my issues it seems like the problem I'm having is I didn't realise that this wasn't actually an auto-battler. I guess I'm actually supposed to manually control my gladiators initially because reasons. One of those rare instances when you expected an auto-battler but ended up getting a fake one...go figure. I've put over 7 hours into this 'game' which coincidentally is more hours then a fair number of these positive reviews. I always find it interesting when I see a positive review from like a month ago and the person only has like 0.2 hours logged into the game. Maybe a few paid reviews from the dev team maybe? I really tried to like this game but it's just designed in a very specific way and they didn't bother added in multiple difficulties to cater to different play styles. This game feels like it's designed for a more casual player but ends up requiring a lot of patience due to a slightly unfair difficulty curve in the beginning. My advice for any casual gamers looking for a fun god game to look elsewhere, TABS, UEBS or even Rimworld are better alternatives.