Our first post-launch update is here!

The biggest addition is a new way to continue playing after winning the Grand Tournament. We've also improved game speed controls, ultrawide support, tutorials, taxes, funerals, and several other areas based on early player feedback.

Winning the Grand Tournament no longer ends your save.

After becoming champion, you can return to your Ludus and continue your career with an ongoing series of arena contracts.

• Arena contracts arrive in batches of 10.

• Each batch includes a mixture of 1v1 through 5v5 battles, ranging from easier fights to dangerous encounters and deliberate traps.

• Expect To-the-Death matches and occasional beast spectacles, including battles against lions and even elephants.

• New contracts generally arrive every 3–4 days.

• Complete or reject the current contracts to receive the next batch.

• Each new batch gradually increases Ludus upkeep, putting more pressure on maintaining a successful Ludus.

• Your Dominus Powers are refreshed with each new batch.

There is no final tournament waiting for you now. The goal is simply to keep your Ludus alive, choose your battles wisely, and see how far your legacy can go.

When you've had enough, you can choose Retire as Dominus from the Dominus screen and finish your career with a summary of your achievements.

• Hold Right Mouse Button to run the game at 2× speed, just like holding RT on a controller.

• Right-clicking while paused in the Ludus will also resume the game.

• Speed controls are now limited to the Ludus and Arena where they are actually useful.

• Updated the pause tutorial to better explain these controls.

• Clicking a gladiator no longer immediately starts dragging them.

• Gladiators only begin moving once you actually drag the mouse.

• Gladiators no longer snap to the center of their position when clicked.

• Dragging is disabled while selecting fighters.

• Improved ultrawide support for the Ludus and Slave Market, keeping important UI inside a centered 16:9 area while the Arena continues to use the full screen.

• Added a Chromatic Aberration option under Graphics.

• Turning Chromatic Aberration off also disables the related cutscene pulse effects.

• Cassius's tax can now put you into debt instead of forcing a forfeit when you don't have enough coins.

• Rejected arena contracts are now tracked separately from defeats.

• Improved the Equipment tutorial so it appears naturally after your first Slave Market visit.

• Difficulty names now correctly update when changing language.

• When several gladiators die in the same battle, each gladiator now receives their own funeral.

• Restored the boss greeting and removed the broken threat countdown event.

• Normalized voice volume throughout the game.

Thank you to everyone who jumped into Dominus Gladiatus on launch day and started sending us feedback. We're already working through it, and this is only the first update.

The gates are open.

After a year of development, Dominus Gladiatus is finally out.

We wanted to make a game that delivers the full gladiator fantasy: purchase slaves, own and train them, turn them into deadly gladiators, build a powerful Ludus and fight your way toward glory, victories and, of course, plenty of coin.

Over the past few months, thousands of you have played the demo, sent us feedback, discovered broken strategies, lost your best gladiators and helped us improve the game all the way to release. Recruit your gladiators. Train them. Equip them. Manage their injuries, fatigue and morale. Face rival Domini and fight your way through the Grand Tournament.

Dominus Gladiatus is available now with a 20% launch discount.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3572090/Dominus_Gladiatus/

To everyone who wishlisted the game, played the demo, reported bugs, gave us feedback, made videos, streamed it or simply told a friend about it:

Thank you.