Version 1.5 patch released!

Elysium: Blood Games

Enter a world of blood, influence and secrets in this easy to learn, yet deep strategy sim where you control a group of Gladiators, guiding them through combat and competition. Bribe, gamble and slash your way to an arena championship!

Version 1.5 of Elysium is out!! NOTE: This version is NOT compatible with previous saved games, due to internal data changes. - NEW FEATURE: Added 18 equippable Weapons for your warriors! Each weapon has a slightly randomized damage range, gold cost and durability. They wear out over time and will need to be repaired every so often to avoid breakage. - NEW FEATURE: Added ambient music to the management screens. A number of pieces of music will rotate randomly. Can be shut off as before on the options screen, if you choose. - TWEAK: Tweaked free warrior generation to tone down the stats of the generated warriors 3-5%, and adjusted their costs, potential ranges and average age up slightly as well. Now it makes a little more sense to develop your own guys, as the free warriors average hidden potential and amount of time they'll be at their peak is reduced overall. - TWEAK: Further tweaked the CPU warrior development to keep the environment challenging from season to season. - TWEAK: Adjusted aging a bit to penalize warriors past the age of 55-60 a little more. - TWEAK: Increased the chance of early retirement slightly due to significant injury or very poor performance. - TWEAK: Increased the pause at the end of a combat, so if something happens (injury, etc.) you have more time to read it. - TWEAK: Increased the benefits of Soul Quests 5-10% to give more stats and increased the chance of finding Gold by 10%. - TWEAK: Refactored and cleaned code a bit for a 3-4% speed improvement. - FIX: Fixed a cosmetic issue where sometimes a empty warrior slot would show up on the next day match-up screen. - FIX: Fixed a cosmetic issue where sometimes the betting screen didn't show the Cancel icon properly when returning with an existing bet in place. - FIX: Corrected a rare 'Type Mismatch' crash if your warrior dies during a fight. - FIX: Disabled the X in the corner of the game window to prevent accidental window closure and odd behavior if clicked in the fight screen. - FIX: Fixed an issue where rarely when a CPU warrior retires, their career stats weren't cleared properly for their replacement. - FIX: Fixed an issue where sometimes if you released a warrior, their career stats weren't cleared properly for their replacement. - HOTFIX (1/27): Fixed an issue where you couldn't upgrade past the first level of arenas. Enjoy and please let me know if you have any issues or problems. Derek