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Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator
In Dominions 6 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 old dragons or an enormous tree. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
59 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The game never goes on sale. Potential good game that fails to appeal to casual gamers; as such, it is priced "accordingly", the developers feel compelled to gouge their own playerbase based on the idea that only a…”
“Insane MS paint masterpiece. Do NOT play single player do NOT play vanilla. Find a server with people to play with and only play game with SCBM enabled. You need an adult to hold your hand for the first few games or you…”
11 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Insane MS paint masterpiece. Do NOT play single player do NOT play vanilla. Find a server with people to play with and only play game with SCBM enabled. You need an adult to hold your hand for the first few games or you…”
“Forget "One More Turn." Dominions 6 turns the classic strategy game phrase on its head, because it's never just one more! I love Dominions 6! I have almost 250 hours, and I still am no expert in the game, but I'm really…”
“This is easily one of the best long-form multiplayer and strategic games I've ever played. Incredibly rich systems, can be a bit intimidating at first but I found it to be immediately rewarding—each time finding myself…”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Forget "One More Turn." Dominions 6 turns the classic strategy game phrase on its head, because it's never just one more! I love Dominions 6! I have almost 250 hours, and I still am no expert in the game, but I'm really…”
“Very fun game. Every nation plays quite differently and it keeps the game fresh.”
“This game will blow your mind if you're into deep strategic war games. 1000s of spells, 100+ unique nations to play, and countless ways to build your armies. Fun single player, even better multiplayer. There's nothing…”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“It's great. Deep lore, well balanced, tons of choices and strategic considerdations. Shines in multiplayer. Set formations and initial orders for the autobattler. Lots of depth. Only downside is managing so much…”
“Dominions, as a series, is an amazingly complex and layered 4x game, in several ways significantly more complex than Age of Wonders 4, its closest comparison. What's truly AMAZING is how Dominions manages to "mechanics…”
4 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I'm convinced that all the talk about this game being hard to pick up is just veterans gatekeeping or trying to act like they're smarter than everyone else. I won my first SP game (against easy AI tbf) in 5 hours of…”
“The best 4x I've played and honestly one of my all time favorite games as you can see by my time played. its easy to learn and hard to master, you can play 50 hrs before even thinking about magic or any other complex…”
29 of the 104 reviews raise this · 26 of them still recommend the game.
“Have I enjoyed this game? I think so. It's certainly interesting. Would I recommend this game to new players? No. This is a game by neckbeards, for neckbeards. You'll know if you should buy this game because all of your…”
“It's fair to say I like this game. It's got a fairly sharp learning curve though, and I suggest trying out its less complex brethren. This will help get your feet wet with the underlying concepts. Dominions 3 is a great…”
“Insane MS paint masterpiece. Do NOT play single player do NOT play vanilla. Find a server with people to play with and only play game with SCBM enabled. You need an adult to hold your hand for the first few games or you…”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Potentially a good game hindered by a bad UI and little to no quality of life effort.”
“It's a good game, but... It's on game number 6, and the user experience is below where it should have been on game number 2. The changes over the 20+ years from Dominions to Dominions 6 is approximately what you'd see…”
“I don't like this version, even though I like the older versions of the game. It has unnecessary extra complications and an unreadable interface with smaller fonts compared to what it used to be. It's difficult to play…”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“Have I enjoyed this game? I think so. It's certainly interesting. Would I recommend this game to new players? No. This is a game by neckbeards, for neckbeards. You'll know if you should buy this game because all of your…”
“There's too many weird mistakes, bad optimizations, and missing features to justify the sell price. It's another example of a game where a good formula with no competition lets a dev disrespect the player's time. We…”
“It's fair to say I like this game. It's got a fairly sharp learning curve though, and I suggest trying out its less complex brethren. This will help get your feet wet with the underlying concepts. Dominions 3 is a great…”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“It's a fine game. However, it's a armies sim, nothing more. You get a lot of ways to fight and kill your enemies, spies, heroes, elites, spells, magic, recruiting gods, becoming god, etc. However, there isn't much of…”
“I don't like this version, even though I like the older versions of the game. It has unnecessary extra complications and an unreadable interface with smaller fonts compared to what it used to be. It's difficult to play…”
“I don't like it. 1) its basic mechanics are very simple, and you have no control over battles so its like total war without any battles which is a buzz kill. 2) the AI has way more resources than you, I have seen them…”
5 of the 104 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
“Potentially a good game hindered by a bad UI and little to no quality of life effort.”
“There's too many weird mistakes, bad optimizations, and missing features to justify the sell price. It's another example of a game where a good formula with no competition lets a dev disrespect the player's time. We…”
“It's a good game, but... It's on game number 6, and the user experience is below where it should have been on game number 2. The changes over the 20+ years from Dominions to Dominions 6 is approximately what you'd see…”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 90.8% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“This game is too complicated to explain in a review. Simplifying it enough to cover it in broad strokes feels like it would miss the point; this is a mechanically extremely deep game with dense and developed systems. Nonetheless, I will make a brief attempt. You have extreme…”
— a player, Steam review · 200 hrs played“Classic "spreadsheet game". If Dwarf Fortress, Aurora 4x, CDDA, DSS.. so on, are meaningful to you then this game is definitely worth some investigating. Check out LucidTactics on Youtube, he has a lot of good coverage of the game including new player info.”
— a player, Steam review · 421 hrs played“While a complex 4x strategy game with a learning curve so steep sometimes it feels as if you are attempting to climb out of hell with two plastic forks and a piece of shoelace, it is a game with just as much depth. Each and every single aspect of these 750 megabytes are filled…”
— a player, Steam review · 129 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Dominions 6.37
This is a minor update that mainly fixes a few issues with the previous version. Most importantly level 9 spells were often impossible to research. Drowning didn't work properly for non-commanders eit
Dominions 6.36
This update adds a touchscreen mode, useful for when you want to play using a touchscreen and with no or little keyboard use. With this mode enabled a long-click will be changed into a right click and
Dominions 6.35
This update adds Gnu Cavalry and Gnu summons to EA Machaka. There are also a number of tweaks and bug fixes, most importantly graphics performance should be ok once again on Mac computers. Map and sco
Dominions 6.34
This update adds more Fay summons and two new pretender gods. There are also a large number of tweaks and bug fixes, e.g. many ritual messages have been improved and there are icons for some more abil
Dominions 6.33
Another mostly bug fix update. In addition to the bug fixes this version will also be able to render the map a bit quicker and be able to detect some minor cheats that were still possible to do withou
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · 4X · Turn-Based Strategy · Asynchronous Multiplayer · Grand Strategy · God Game · Fantasy · Wargame · PvP · Hand-drawn · Multiplayer · Turn-Based Tactics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op |
| Languages | English |
| Official site | https://www.illwinter.com/dom6/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Processor: 64-bit intel/amd cpu Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Integrated graphics or better Storage: 750 MB available space