Dominions 3: The Awakening
Illwinter Game Design Developer
Illwinter Game Design Publisher
2013-09-10 Release
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Mostly Positive
(104 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
Now Available on Steam - Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension is Now Available on Steam!
You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator.
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. The pretender gods have different strengths dependent on what kind of god you choose and what nation you play.
When you start the game you decide what kind of god you are and how your Dominion affects your lands and followers. It is an expression of your divine might and the faith of your followers. If your dominion dies, so do you. Your dominion also inspires your sacred warriors and gives them powers derived from your dominion.
In order to win and become the one true god you have to defeat your enemies one of three different ways: conquer their lands, extinguish their dominion or claim the Thrones of Ascension.
The first Dominions game was released in 2002 and was well received by strategy gamers. Since then Dominions has been much refined and Dominions series is still actively played making it one of the longest running 4x turn based strategy games.
[ 2013-12-05 20:04:00 CET ] [ Original post ] The Old God has left the world and the pretenders are awakening and coming out from hiding. You start the game by designing one of the pretender gods that will compete for true ascension to godhood. The type of god can range from a magically powerful arch mage to an ancient kraken or a mystic monolith that people pray to.
Dominions 3 is a turn based strategy game taking place in a fantasy world with world altering magic rituals and horrors capable of destroying nations.
A large variety of spells, monsters and special abilities is something this game definitely has. There are more than 60 different nations, 1500 different units, 600 spells and 300 magic items in the game. The game also features a medieval musical score by Erik Ask Uppmark and Anna Rynefors, both awarded the title of Musicians of the Realm by the Swedish Zornmärkeskommiten. Dominions 3 is a highly detailed game and a 300 page pdf manual is included in the download.
Features include:
- Many monsters (1500+) and many many special abilities.
- Over 60 different nations to choose from, varying from Marignon with paladins, witch hunters and inquisitors to under water nations like the Lovecraft inspired R'lyeh.
- Three Eras to play in, Early era is most magic and the late era is more technologically advanced with good steel weapons and armors.
- Design your pretender god and how his dominion influences provinces and his sacred units.
- Multiplayer with simultaneous turns (up to 23 players).
- Network or Play by E-Mail for multiplayer.
- AI opponents for single- or multiplayer game.
- Random maps.
- An extensive magic system with over 600 spells.
- Blood magic, power your rituals with human sacrifices.
- Global ritual that affect the entire world.
- More than 300 magic items.
- Unique magic artifacts that all players compete for, once forged no one else can make it.
- Mercenaries are bought on a global market.
- Scouts, Assassins, Spies, Seducers, Corruptors, Werewolves, Illusionists and more can be sneaking in your provinces.
- Build Castles, Temples and Labs.
- Permanent battle afflictions.
- A 300 page pdf manual including a tutorial and a spell and magic item reference.
- Easy to Mod (2d graphics)
- Playable on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux.
MINIMAL SETUP- OS: Any GNU/Linux distribution
- Processor: x86. 32 or 64 bit. 1 GHz or fasterMemory: 512 MB RAM
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL capable graphics card
- Storage: 350 MB available space
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