Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator

Very complicated and intricate wizard war wargame. Made by 2 I think swedish sicko's who're making a sicko game for only themselves, and whoever buys and plays their game is incidental kinda thing (though there are many mods to change things up to preference). Very much a PvP multiplayer game. There is vs AI to learn / test things, but the AI is pretty dull and takes a "Random bullshit, go!" approach and won't really give you the full "experience" of tackling a thinking foe who can really engage with the intricacies. It is very much a wargame; infrastructure creation is limited, if still important, and ingame diplomacy is limited to non-aggression pacts, sending resources / items and sending messages to each other. Diplomacy with other players you basically have to discuss in [messaging platform of choice]. The only victories are through claiming enough Thrones of Ascension or obliterating all other factions. Gameplay-wise, it has a 444 page PDF manual that's filled with a lot of im...

After rolling through a game and a half, I don't really get why this is such a beloved classic. tl;dr: What you really need to understand here is that when they say "thousands of spells and unique units," they mean across the entire game. At any given moment, you're gonna have access to like four of them. The number's so high because there are just that many bespoke factions with their entirely personal set of slightly different tools. Variety is extremely high. Tactical options and player expression, however, felt very narrow. It may be possible I just picked boring factions (Uruk, then C'tis), but for what each faction gains in uniqueness, it also seems to lose in depth. Uruk's a great example. You have access to five different melee units, but really, they're all the same unit, just on a sliding gradient of affordability vs. quality. In reality, I really only had four tactical options. Big archer guy, big melee guy, hoplites whose gimmick was they could stand in tight formation, an...

Having a none aggression pact is nice but.... I feel absolutely ripped off! $45 for this. Nothing has changed since dominions 3, nothing substantial anyway. This franchise packages updates as new games! Dominions 6 doesn't introduce enough substantial changes to warrant a full new purchase, especially for players who already own. Dont get me wrong if you like the series its fun. However we deserve and need new systems in the game. I can barley tell whats changed between 4 and 6 the same sprites are even used!!! How about a real diplomacy system so I can form a new pantheon, like monotheism is not the only answer!!! How about a light building system, but i understand if thats not the direction you want to go. How about province policy system that lets me assign an edict that will make more gold, growth, recruitment, resource, or enhance spells cast there but only one on per province. If you dont want to add a building system add special buildings that can show up as a deposits on a...

Ctrl L is your friend! If only this information was blazoned somewhere prominently for folk to see. Read on to discover why this is so. I'm not amending my rating, as I still think this is VERY POOR performance. This game was not ready for release. I play solo and want to be able to create and save pretenders. Creation of them in the tools screens is possible, but utterly pointless, as after saving them I can find no way to use them in a game, at all. There is nothing about how to achieve this miracle in the handbook either. If I'd released such a shoddy product before it was ready, my boss would have had my hands cut off. Make sure the basics work before adding "features". I love this series of games and have spent hundreds of hours playing them. Tremendously unimpressed. I'll be asking steam for my money back. IF you ever get the basics working, please let me know, as I think it's an excellent version, but no point in buying a pretty car with go faster stripes but no eng...

extremely deep, maybe I'll get used to it some day.

Are you *really* into folklore? Are you Nordic, like in real life? And are you salty that Nordic Elves have been phased out of existence entirely? You might like this game, It’s “what if ever mythology fought” with the complete absurdity that may bring, with some extra original flavor as well. The game plays great, actually! It can be a *bit* finicky to get into if your used to modern UI and on boarding but its very fluid and easy to use once you get into it. One ~30 min small guide on the basic controls and concepts and I was in and able to enjoy myself a lot. Its more of a war game than a management sim, everyone starts able to attack each other and your main focus is managing your armies and your economy. There’s some overworld game play to boost your money and magic economy, defenses and recruitment with its own depth of course. But the magic (Sometimes literally) is in the warfare. I come from Total War, and despite it being the main appeal I find watching battles more ...

next game in a long line of great time wasters

idk what im doing but i can do anything and thats pretty cool

When you first start playing this game, the unbelievable amount of content within will be overwhelming. You will be paralysed and unable to do anything. The later game has an unfun level of micromanaging as you are forced to manually sift through each potential spell, research tree, unit type, craftable item and army for every damn commander. So you watch some tutorials, play around a little, follow a guide. Then it starts clicking. You begin to know what summons work, and what don't. You can eye up army strengths relative to one another. You know which magic schools to research, what items to forge, and how to design a functional god for the particular strengths and weaknesses of your chosen nation. Then the game becomes more fun, and does not stop becoming more fun. The unreal amount of content becomes its biggest strength, for you can continually refine your strategy, and do increasingly fun things with increasingly less mental effort. If you have autism, and/or like dwarf fortr...

I goon to this game but no one will know.