Dominions 4 takes a unique approach to the 4x strategy genre. It involves bringing forth your Pretender, which is much similar to a god or demigod. You also need to have an enormous army to accompany your false prophet to help spread his word.
As you conquer the neighboring provinces and continue to build your army, word will spread throughout the land about your Pretender. By building shrines and other artifacts, you will attract additional followers. The more you accomplish in the name of your Pretender, the more people will begin to take notice and follow him.
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GIZORAMA - his review has been late in coming. Somehow, every time I sit down to write it, I found myself opening Dominions 4 and wanting to make “just one more move.” Then a portal through time would somehow open up and I would come out of a trance at 3 A.M. with another empire destroyed, but nothing actually written. Luckily, I’ve managed to take screenshots during these gaming sessions, otherwise the only record I would have of that time is the stories of empires that have been subdued in my head.
Dominions 4 is the latest installment in the Dominions game series, a series which has a cult-like following of people who relish the meta game of strategy games. In Dominions, you can win a battle through sheer numbers, by blessing a small group of elite soldiers that can fly behind enemy lines, by cursing enemy leaders so that they are marked for death by Horrors from the netherworld, or any number of other methods.
