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. Your pretender controls one of over sixty different nations and with the help of that nation he will spread his word and battle the other pretenders. Dominions 3 is a turn based strategy game. You can play single- or multiplayer (1 - 23 players) with simultaneous turns. There are more than 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.

datom says

10/10 - Agree (10) Disagree

Undoubtedly the best game I own, and probably (nostalgia aside) the best game I've ever played. I paid $60 dollars for it 8 months ago and I'd have paid double, in retrospect. In those 8 months, I have played in-depth to the point I understand them with, err, one of the 50+ nations. So by that ratio, I've got 38 years left to go. And that's before we discuss the mod nations, as Warhammer nations clash on the fields of the Old World, and weird fungal things take on the might of the Avernum armies.

The only concern is once you've played MP you can never really enjoy SP again and it just becomes a testing ground. I don't know if that's a problem, though, or a sign of how utterly superb MP is.