Disciples: Domination

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Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/lists/] Gaming Masterpieces [/url] - The greatest games of all time on Steam. You once again play as Queen Avyanna, who must throw herself into turn-based combat to save her kingdom. Disciples: Domination is the latest installment in a series that began back in 1999 with Disciples: Sacred Lands. Published at the time by Strategy First, that game centered on various races battling for supremacy in the fantasy world of Nevendaar. Developed in France, it was something of a clone of the successful Heroes of Might and Magic games, but it brought its own ideas and gained its own fan base. Players had to build a city, explore the land, and defeat enemies in turn-based battles. The 2002 sequel, Disciples II: Dark Prophecy, was even more successful and received three expansions (Guardians of the Light, Servants of the Dark, Rise of the Elves). The third installment, Disciples III: Renaissance (produced in Russia in 2009), was unfortunately less successful (though the remaster Disciples III: Reincarnation is somewhat better), until the series was continued by Kalypso in 2021 with Disciples: Liberation. And now the newest entry has arrived: Disciples: Domination. In terms of gameplay, not much has changed (and that’s not meant negatively). The setting is still Nevendaar; you still build up a city (the castle Yllian) to recruit troops and conduct research; you still explore the land (now no longer in classic 2D but in stylish isometric graphics); and the decisive battles remain turn-based. Only the graphics have improved—from 640×480 in 1999 to up to 3840×2160 today. However, multiplayer has been removed—Disciples: Domination is purely a single-player game. I personally spent countless hours on Heroes of Might and Magic III and later Disciples II: Dark Prophecy—we’ll see how many hours I’ll put into Disciples: Domination. French games in the past have often been highly creative, frequently surreal—and sometimes difficult for ordinary people to understand or even play. However, Disciples: Domination, developed by Artefacts Studio in Lyon under game director Christophe Garnier, does not fall into that category. It offers the classic gameplay that made the series popular. At the start, you can choose between four preset difficulty levels or create a custom difficulty with nine adjustable variables. The story begins about 15 years after the end of Disciples: Liberation. You play as Avyanna, who previously freed the land from evil and became queen. Unfortunately, she turned out to be somewhat overwhelmed by the role and retreated into her fortress, Yllian—while evil (naturally in a new form) spread across the land again. So at the start, she doesn’t have many allies left as she explores a dwarven mine with a few loyal followers. Earlier, she had been visited in her castle by her old friend Orion, who explained that she must find the source of the evil to prevent the downfall of Nevendaar. The dwarves can help her in this task. You move through the isometric world in real time until the first battle begins fairly quickly. Apparently, fanatical cultists have attacked the mine. During combat, the game switches to turn-based mode. Units are first positioned—some can be placed in the back row, supporting from a distance with special abilities. You control your units (including Avyanna) across a hex-based battlefield. Each unit can move and use abilities (like attacking) in each round as long as it has action points. After all enemies are defeated, Avyanna gains experience points and the game returns to the isometric view. Injured units remain injured. If all your units die, it’s game over—though you can retry the last battle. In the overworld view, an arrow shows the direct route to the next objective to advance the story. After returning to your castle with some dwarves (Avyanna can teleport there from anywhere outside combat), the story really begins. You recruit a few units, then return with your army to the Cragwell area (where the dwarven mine was) to explore. The environment is detailed, but your options are limited—much like in Heroes of Might and Magic. You gather resources, talk to NPCs (sometimes with dialogue choices), and encounter enemies to trigger battles. In combat, you control individual units rather than entire armies as in Heroes, but mechanically it makes no difference whether you have 50 griffins or a skeleton warrior with 50 hit points. There are five factions in total: the Empire, the Elves, the Legions of the Damned, the Undead Hordes, and the Mountain Clans—each with its own region to explore during the story. You can choose one of four classes for Avyanna (Warlord, Master of Primal Forces, Holy Regent, or Witch Queen), each with its own skill tree. You can even switch classes later for a small cost. In your castle, you construct buildings such as barracks to recruit soldiers, research upgrades, and unlock new unit types. A journal tracks all main and side quests. You can view Avyanna’s stats, equipment, spells, and resources (gold, iron, wood, arcane flux) on a dedicated screen. [u][b] Conclusion:[/b][/u] Disciples: Domination is primarily a fairly challenging turn-based strategy game. Its core gameplay revolves around complex battles featuring up to nine units per side, each with unique abilities, played out on compact battlefields with special tiles and obstacles. Players must think carefully to make optimal moves—even on normal difficulty. Outside of battles, resource management becomes crucial: upgrade your castle or recruit more troops? How should you build your army? Which spells and skills should you choose? These decisions offer plenty to keep strategy fans engaged. While it’s not a beginner-friendly title, experienced strategy players will find it very rewarding.

I really liked Liberation so i was pretty excited when they announces this one. First the positives: the gameplay is still pretty much the same, which is a good thing for me because i really enjoyed it. there is a new faction, new units, new abilites too. great. Now the negative: a little sad that there's no german voices aviable bc the first one had it and the english voices are very different for the characters established in the first game. but the BIG BAD is....the story. now this just might be my personal take, but it ruined the game for me entierly. this game basically...makes me feel like everything we accomplished in liberation, everything positive from the first game, is just gone. i was hoping for some sort of turning point, plot twist to make it all good again all the way until the end and got disappointed big time. i felt like the devs even forgot about some crucial plot points and some of the companions from the first game. i have not yet been able to bring myself to do a new game + run and see if the new choices might lead to a different outcome bc sadly i doubt it would. i keep my memory for liberation and the story and the characters in a good way, i have decided that for me, this game simply does not exists and will not be canon for me EVER

This game seems to be a step back in every direction from Liberation. Runs terribly, significantly less units, the VA is horrendous, story seems like it was made by a toddler. Right when you start the game, you run into an old companion who won't let you pass into an area because a countess he works for said "no one can pass", even though you are legitimately the queen. Clearly it's trying to keep you out of a higher level area, but it's dumb and makes no sense. On top of that, I played through Liberation with a controller no problem. Some genius decided to completely remove a quicksave option from the controller (which you can't edit). Everytime I want to quicksave, I have to pause and navigate to it on the menu, in an already laggy af game. Furthermore, you now have to hold down the right bumper for an extended period of time, and THEN release to end your turn early in combat. It's incredibly annoying. If you enjoyed Liberation like me, just be weary before you buy. I read reviews and was skeptical thinking "there's no way they could have screwed it up that bad". Well they kinda did. It's a dumbed down version of Liberation in every way.

Really enjoying this, and I think probably more people should try it than are going to at the current rate of reviews. Seems like a lot of the negativity comes from 1) It's not Disciple II (sure, it isn't) and 2) general misunderstandings or impatience with the game. The writing's actually pretty good -- within the top 25% or so of games that get released these days. And the tactical depth of the combat is enough to be pretty interesting. Way, way better than you'd think from summarizing the current reviews and top reviews on here. It's not a quantum leap past Liberation. If you played Liberation and liked it, you'll like this too, but if you didn't like Liberation this isn't likely to change your mind. There's some balance and pacing tweaks of things they clearly learned from the weaknesses of Liberation that you might like. For example, plenty of units have been moved back a Tier, and Tier 1 has been more or less skipped. I think that's a good step. Overall unit count is down, but there's an entire new faction with new mechanics to make up for it. Trying to find the right mix of strategies, and the right factions that complement each other, is good fun.

First of all, I will start with the praise. Amazing game, both Liberation and Domination are just the thing to play if you are a fan of the story and the world of Nevendaar. It is an RPG, so the nostalgy of the old Disciples games is not satisfied on 100%. However, the story and the way those 2 are made is amazing and I had almost full time of fun. However, the story development and the limited companions is something that made me dislike Domination over Liberation. To explain my dislikes, will have to use some spoilers, so if you haven't played both games- ignore the rest. [spoiler] The resources are terribly low. You get tons of wood, iron, unholy essence (useless 90% of the time) but you are starved for dust (up until act 3) and gold/divine essence (whole game). You are barely able to upgrade your shards and items (I had to wait 20 minutes before the last encounters to upgrade my last shard....). Terrible terrible, resource quantity. Fewer companions- terrible companion quests. Ethel - the 2nd companion can have it's quest line done ..... before the last ACT. The voice actors are not the same (which is .... not ok. The crazy Ejamar, the deep voiced Ilmeren even Meli is ..... meh). And lastly, the story. Epic fail. The standard story, ends unfinished. The dominion story ends............. terible. Not sure if a writer was removed or someone gave his kid to write the ending, but honestly- don't let that guy/gal do that anymore. Find him/her another job, that doesn't require writing or using imagination. Instead of relasing Bethrezen and fight him, in Domination mode we let the world die (end of story. Period) and fight some pathetic ....parasite????? Are you for real??? And the last thing I disslike is the terribly reduced amount of units. Good idea with single structure, terrible execution with the units. Terrible, terrible, terrible.[/spoiler] I pray to all the GODs and Avy, for you guys at Kalypso, to make a healing Expansion and not leave this like that.

[quote][url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/6142328/][b] With 1,500+ reviews, please consider following The Cpt Froggy Club Curator Page for plenty more![/b][/url][/quote] Disciples: Domination: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It has been 15 years since Avyanna, the Queen of Navendaar, liberated her kingdom by defeating the gods. But since then, her rule over the realm has been indecisive as she struggles to govern. Cracks have begun to form among her close friends and allies, leaving her even more isolated, confused, and fearful. But Navendaar needs her more than ever as an unknown source gradually takes its grip over her kingdom with devastating results. She must face her fears, rebuild her friends' trust, and determine who created this source and why. All will be revealed in Disciples: Domination. Disciples: Domination is a turn-based combat RPG developed by Artefacts Studio and published by Kalypso Media on the 12th of February 2026, on the Steam platform. The game is also available on Xbox One Series X|S and PS5. The Navendaar kingdom is divided into five areas, each home to a different faction: The Empire, The Elven Alliance, The Mountain Clans, Legions of the Damned and the Undead Hordes. Within each map you'll have essence generators as well as several mines (gold, iron and wood) to capture. All these resources are important for upgrading structures in the city of Yllian. They can also be used to purchase units and to activate options for making decisions regarding factions when you visit the throne. There are many NPCs to talk to regarding the story quests, companion quests and secondary quests. There are a couple of small dungeons to visit, a few fountains where you can regain health for your party and a few rune icons which give you the ability to fast travel from one point to another within each area. Fast travelling is particularly handy because you'll need to constantly move your party around the map to complete quests. There are other items on each map and in dungeons that you won't be able to interact with until you have access to a new main companion. Without a main companion you will not be able to talk to the spirit of a corpse or open sealed chests and doors. So, don't be worried if you are not able to interact straightaway; you can always fast travel back to the areas with these items once you have the appropriate companion. I really enjoyed the turn-based combat, as you have the core party of up to ten units (the maximum number of units playable within the battlefield) and a backline of another three units, which the AI controls on each turn. Within the battlefield units, you can only have three of the six major characters (once you’ve unlocked them) at any given time in the lineup. The other seven characters will be made up from units you purchased in Yllian or by other characters who have joined your party after finishing a quest. It will take time to fill up your core party, as every single unit, apart from the main six characters, has a leadership cost. When you start the game, your leadership ceiling is capped fairly low. As you progress and upgrade your castle, your leadership points will start to grow, allowing you to add more units to your frontline. As you upgrade the other factions' houses at Yllian, one of the rewards is that your units' leadership cost decreases, which is nice. At the start of each battle, you'll first lay out your units on the map, and you'll be able to edit your units if needed. Each battle has a condition, including that you not use any of the main characters during a battle, not use a backline, or have no more than two factions in the front line. You can decide to follow or not follow the instructions. If you do, you receive more experience points and goodies at the end of the winning fight. I strongly recommend doing so in the early part of the game so you can level up Avyanna as fast as possible. Also, most of the battles have a variety of environmental conditions such as earthquakes, icy winds, and falling rocks, which are detrimental to both friendly and enemy units. It makes the battle a little bit more tense and fun. I also like the few big boss battles, and I wish there were more of them, as they were fun and challenging. I found the story quite good; even though I have not played any of the previous games, I never felt lost, even at the start of the game; they do a good job of laying out previous events. Although the voice acting could have been better, it was still sound. I enjoyed the different units of each of the factions, but I didn’t used all of them. About half way through the game, I pretty much stuck to my formation, and that worked really well. The graphics are very good, as are the animations throughout the world and in battles. I finished the game in around 80 hours, and I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. Positives: ~~~~~~~ + Great graphics and animations + Simple resource management and level progression + Good story + Nine different units per faction + Cool environmental conditions that add challenges to the turn-based battle + 80+ hours of gameplay + Achievements and trading cards Negatives: ~~~~~~~~ - The voice acting could have been better - I felt that the choices I made in the throne room when prompted didn't affect the story much, apart from decreasing my influence on factions here and there. Disciples: Domination is a very solid turn-based combat RPG. I was entertained for over 80 hours, a must try! 8/10 Note: This game was not received for free; I purchased it through the Steam store. Any opinions expressed are entirely my own!

Dear developers. Please hire people who understand in-game balance and turn-based gameplay to develop the next game in the series. You are absolute incompetents in this area. You did not correct your mistakes from the previous part, but transferred them to the new one. ty

Like other reviews have mentionned, if you like like Liberation like i do, you will like Domination. Voice acting could be better though.

I finished the game in +/- 50h and I can recommend it. It's similar to Liberation which I liked a lot, maybe even too similar. I'd like to see more fresh ideas but it was still a very nice experience to play it. Reducing the number of companions to 5 wasn't a problem in the first playthrough as you can only field 2, but might be a limitation in NG+.