Domina

[Plywood]

This game has alot of indie charm. Good casual fun. You build up your gladiators by stats - upgrading their equipment, training etc. -  getting random invitations to fights, looking at the opposing gladiators stats, see if the odds are for or against one of your gladiators, if none don't stand a chance against their bruiser you send out one of your weaklings to get brutally slaughtered in the arena (the AI does all the work). Keeping your "real champion" to fight it out with only even or over favored fights, building up even more stats fighting experience. The thing is, you can see with just the stats how fights will usually go (with hidden variables to special training) making the game a bit predictable, but the nice sprite work, charm (& good soundtrack) make it always engaging.