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Last updated 27 Sept 2026
In Dominions 5 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.
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Indie, Strategy · 2017 · More £5 - £15 games
Rise to godhood as you command diverse units and cast powerful spells in Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith, an immersive 4x strategy experience where your choices shape the fate of nations.
About this game
You are a God! You are master and ruler of a loyal nation. You have unimaginable powers at your disposal. You have claimed this world as yours. But there are others who stand in your way. You must defeat and destroy these pretenders. Only then can you ascend to godhood and become the new Pantokrator.
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. The pretender gods have different strengths dependent on what kind of god you choose and what nation you play.
When you start the game you decide what kind of god you are and how your Dominion affects your lands, followers and sacred soldiers. It is an expression of your divine might and the faith of your followers. If your dominion dies, so do you. Your dominion also inspires your sacred warriors and gives them powers derived from your dominion.
In order to win and become the one true god you have to defeat your enemies one of three different ways: conquer their lands, extinguish their dominion or claim the Thrones of Ascension.
New for Dominions 5 is that a God's bless effects can be customized in detail giving a new set of choices for the aspiring Gods. Battles have also received a major change and now feature simultaneous movement for all participating units. Fireballs and arrows will now fly at the same time as everyone is moving and watching large battles will be quicker than before.
Dominions is set in a fantasy world that draws inspiration from historical nations, cultures and myths. You will not encounter the elves of conventional fantasy in this game. Instead you might lead a nation of vanir from old norse myth. Aztecs, romans, israelites, greeks, kievian rus and lovecraftian horrors are just a few of the inspirational sources of the game.
The first Dominions game was released in 2002 and was well received by strategy gamers. Since then Dominions has been much refined and Dominions series is still actively played making it one of the longest running 4x turn based strategy games.
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to huge titans or large monuments. The pretender gods have different strengths dependent on what kind of god you choose and what nation you play.
When you start the game you decide what kind of god you are and how your Dominion affects your lands, followers and sacred soldiers. It is an expression of your divine might and the faith of your followers. If your dominion dies, so do you. Your dominion also inspires your sacred warriors and gives them powers derived from your dominion.
In order to win and become the one true god you have to defeat your enemies one of three different ways: conquer their lands, extinguish their dominion or claim the Thrones of Ascension.
New for Dominions 5 is that a God's bless effects can be customized in detail giving a new set of choices for the aspiring Gods. Battles have also received a major change and now feature simultaneous movement for all participating units. Fireballs and arrows will now fly at the same time as everyone is moving and watching large battles will be quicker than before.
Dominions is set in a fantasy world that draws inspiration from historical nations, cultures and myths. You will not encounter the elves of conventional fantasy in this game. Instead you might lead a nation of vanir from old norse myth. Aztecs, romans, israelites, greeks, kievian rus and lovecraftian horrors are just a few of the inspirational sources of the game.
The first Dominions game was released in 2002 and was well received by strategy gamers. Since then Dominions has been much refined and Dominions series is still actively played making it one of the longest running 4x turn based strategy games.
System Requirements
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Minimum:
- OS *: Windows XP or later
- Processor: 1 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 750 MB available space
Supported Languages
English
Latest news
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Dominions 6 released
Dominions 6 has now been released on steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2511500/Dominions_6__Rise_of_the_Pantokrator/Read full article on Community Announcements (johan)AnnouncementsOfficial
Dominions 5.61
The major change in this update is that scoregraphs will now only be revealed when the last human player dies. This will prevent those eliminated early from revealing the graphs in multiplayer games. There has also been a whole bunch of other fixes, including some important AI related ones. General Scoregraphs now only revealed when the last human player dies Gem bait prevention fixes Break Siege orders were canceled when changing magic items Claim Throne orders were canceled when changing magic items Supplies from magic sites didn't work properly Info about lance restrictions now shown among item stats Fix for independent mages with berserk ability rushing forward in melee Age numbers from decay didn't take slow aging abilities into account Number of mountains shown in map editor statistics Magic sites in kelp forests didn't work properly Fix for magic shields staying damaged on commander Stygian Paths didn't initiate a magic phase battle Air shield showed incorrect value when it came from more than one source AI magic item evaluation bug fixed Fixed bug where AI could sometimes unequip a cursed item Fix for move getting incorrectly converted to patrol when playing against AI --benchmark didn't print the result correctly Fixed potential crash when shutting down Linux version Event fixes Typo & stat fixesRead full article on Community Announcements (johan)AnnouncementsOfficial
Dominions 5.60
This update consists of a bunch of bug fixes, minor tweaks as well as a few usability and performance improvements. E.g. affliction chance is now based on the highest of max-HP and current-HP, preventing pretenders attacking into hostile dominion from getting too many afflictions. General Armageddon wish now leaves corpses in provinces Affliction chance is now based on the highest of max-HP and current-HP. Added information about Marignon Inquisition feature in nation summary Fixed potential exploit with leadership boosting items Iron Darts/Blizzard now have the iron tag Fix for rain of stones not hitting heads as often as it should Cast order could be removed when changing items if gem treasury was low Can no longer give retreat orders to mindless commanders Fixed layout when writing messages to other players Unholy weapon bless didn't affect enemy pretenders, fixed Performance improvement for main map screen Scrollbars can now be navigated using Home/End keys Fixed bug that made the ground flicker slightly in some battles Fear overflow fix Crash fix for badly formatted map files Safer handling of corrupted files Potential crash fixes Typos & stat fixes Modding Mods are now sorted alphabetically Fixed crash in mod error checker Fix for #coastcom getting an incorrect popup Mod security fix Mod error checker can be exited with Return/Esc Manifestation couldn't use negative monster numbers properlyRead full article on Community Announcements (johan)AnnouncementsOfficial
Dominions 5.59
This update contains a bunch of bug fixes and improvements. AI players will now handle disciple games better and a bug preventing the AI players from equipping items properly has also been fixed. The game will also work better for some users of the new AMD Radeon driver in Windows. General More new AMD Radeon Windows drivers should now be detected and work ok Fix for AI in disciple games not handling allied territories properly Fix for certain remote spells not being castable underwater Communion boosts now affect penetration properly Fix for missiles sometimes hitting an incorrect bodypart Rituals that should sometimes horror mark the caster didn't do this Faster creation of games with very many players Fixed bug with worm mage becoming an unkillable ghost Thawing didn't work properly Phoenix Pyre no longer works on swallowed beings --kelppart didn't work Tzitzimitl range weapon was not always visible Map drawing performance improvement Save bugfix for very large games AI item equip bug fix Minor Mapeditor fix Fix for Censer weapon stat box Stat and typo fixesRead full article on Community Announcements (johan)AnnouncementsOfficial
Dominions 5.58
The most important fix for this version is that Dominions should now work better with the new AMD graphics driver for Windows. This fix should be enabled automatically for the relevant driver, but if it isn't start the game with the "--renderpath 1" startup option (no ""). There are also a bunch of bug fixes and small new features that have accumulated since the last update. General OpenGL Info button in 3D settings Keyboard shortcut 'm' to toggle monthly ritual Symbol shown for negative Blood Searcher bonus also Independent Enchantresses have more spells to choose from Possible item duplication bug fixed Details on Gale Gate description added Mechanic Bonus now affects Clockwork Soldiers too Dagon now digests swallowed victims properly Pressing Del to delete orders didn't work Description for Poison Weapons --renderpath startup option (--renderpath 1 works better on new Windows AMD driver) Passwords of up to 49 characters can now be used everywhere Network server didn't send host status messages when in text mode Dominions could hang on a corrupted 2h file, fixed Stat and typo fixesRead full article on Community Announcements (johan)
