Dominions 5: Warriors of the Faith launched last week and somehow it passed us by entirely. The last thing we want to do is upset the complicated 4X’s roster of angry, marauding deities, so I guess I’d better fill you in. Dominions pits players (and AI) against each other in a divine battle for the world. Each player is a pretender god with a nation…
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Feature: Worth persevering with.
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.What a shame it is that Dominions IV doesn't do more to teach you how to play. It's a turn-based strategy game in which you choose an amateur god and aim to ascend to professional god status by capturing thrones across a region map,…
Feature: Gods and Monsters
Dominions 4 excites the storyteller in me. There are sagas to share and they’re not the sort in which a fisherman becomes a king or a lord protects his homestead from a great slavering beastie. Dominions doesn’t care for trifles and the fish it fries are blasphemous monstrosities that live somewhere in or about the R'lyeh region. This is a turn-based strategy game in which…
If turn-based strategy games tickle your fancy and you've never heard of the Dominions series, it might be best to turn away now. That is if you don't want to spend the next couple of days poring over a hefty manual, the next couple creating a succession of pretender gods, and the following weeks and months attempting to ascend to a Position of Ultimate Power.…