I've played this, and it has been awhile so it probably has been updated; but it was fun albeit wonky on balancing.

Again though the balancing likely (hopefully?) improved; regardless it's cheap fun if you can burn 10 or 15 on it.

You can manually control the gladiators or let the AI do it; and both ways were enjoyable to me. I preferred to let the AI fight because it's way better than me; but ofc taking control of a beefed up guy is also cool.