Dominions 3: The Awakening
Illwinter Game Design · 2013 · Strategy, Indie, Turn-Based Strategy, Turn-Based, Grand Strategy
PC
Very Positive80% · 10582Metacritic
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About Dominions 3: The Awakening
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:
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.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A bloated autobattler on sprite engine (early Total Wars look better) melted into a simplified map-coloring simulator (no building) with funny quantity of races & magic spells. All sequels in the series are the same, UI in this one is cooked, buy #5.6 found this helpful
This game has so much depth, don't let its oldschool graphic style trick you. The beauty of this is in the depth, variety of options, and strategy. The reference booklet is almost 300 pages. And its fun to read because you begin to realize how many factors are at play here. I know the newest one just came out, Dom 6, but I wanted to start with an older version, and get to know, before progressing forward through them. I've never seen a strategy fantasy game with this much depth that is from this vantage point of kingdoms. There are so many unique units, spells, gems, items, buildings. My favorite part was in completing the tutorial save, there was one troll that I had surrounded, he had mages that summon spectral wolves, and he's nearly immune to my damage, so I lost 4 battles against him. It was like 120 units on 5, but he was the last bastion in the west. Eventually, I overwhelmed him but the theme of this Troll holding back my armies was very cool.5 found this helpful
Meh- Fun game, but very very slow. Also the newer versions seem to be the same thing but better.3 found this helpful
If i played this in 1990 it would have been a good game2 found this helpful
Was greatly improved in latter iterations
Exactly what I was looking for in a game. Depth and detail unparalleled. Love the retro feel and throwback graphics.
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