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.
I have owned this game for many years and never get tired of playing it. And that is just playing it in single player, because I have heard multy player is better even again.
If you want value for money out of the games you buy then Dominions 3 offers one of the best deals you will ever have. There are things that could be better such as the graphics. But they must be 2D because 3D graphics always looks awful for turn based games. The User Interface as well takes a lot of getting used to, but it does do the job well enough.
But overweighting all of the bad things are the good things which are the endless replaying value, the great sense of emersion in a rich gameworld full of lore, and the infinite options when it comes to deciding what strategy to use to defeat your enemies.
If you only like games that look nice and can boast of big album full of pretty pictues, then this game will not be for you. But if you care about what is truly important in games, then you are really missing out if you do not buy Dominions 3.