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.
To be frank, for many gamers, this game probably doesn't deserve a 10/10. For a certain (not small, to be sure) subset, it surely does, and those are who this review is for. Dominions 3 has a both breadth and depth of experience unmatched by any other game on the market, and the multiplayer is simply fantastic, despite the age of the game and the prohibitive cost it had from its release until it came to Desura. If you have an itch that isn't scratched by the other grand strategy games on the market, I suggest giving Dominions 3 a try.