Divinity: Dragon Commander

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It's been a long time since I played this game, but going back and looking through my library, I figured it deserved a recommendation, if purely for its uniqueness - I have never quite played a game like this and would have much liked some kind of Sequel. It's an Action game/RTS Hybrid, wherein you can transform into the eponymous Dragon commander to support your troops around an RTS map, though of course you cannot be everywhere at once. The Dragon part is probably a bit better than the RTS part, as the latter is relatively basic, but the combination is still unique. Outside of the map, there is a poltical layer where you can balance factions against each other to get advantages on the campaign map. Many of the choices you can choose to make in this layer are quite humorous, though sometimes they are also dark in tone - there is good balance. Or you can simply throw it out and simply play according to whatever your political leanings are - the options for both ends of the spectrum are there.

i review games on steam after i 100% complete them! check out my reviews to see all the games i have completed! divinity: dragon commander is a real-time strategy/rpg and is the fourth divinity game from larian studios. dragon commander is a spinoff from their main divinity series and was released in august 2013. there's solid rts strategy here but the dragon gameplay from divinity II returns as you can drop in and out of combat as a dragon in the middle of your RTS battle. i was blown away because this is a really cool concept that i wasn't aware existed before starting this game. even though the RTS battles are fun, my favorite element of the game is the RPG elements and the risk-like map gameplay where you position troops and what not, and go around your ship talking to characters in your army or deal with the representatives of each race before going into battles at the end of each turn. as a fan who started playing through larians's original divinity games because of divinity: original sin 2, you can see what eventually became the 3D models used in the D:OS games start to take form here in the character models you talk to on your ship. i like how it all wraps together with the previous divinity games made up until this point. while divinity II was a huge change from divine divinity & beyond divinity, dragon commander as a spin off is entirely different from all three previous divinity games. dragon commander (and divinity II at the time) was a nice change of pace from what you expected from the games that came before. one thing i do wish they did was expand more on the rpg stuff away from the battlefield. another minor negative is that normal difficulty is way, way too easy, as i quickly made the jump to hard after completing the first chapter on normal quite easily after learning literally just the basics. i'm curious what the two difficulties under normal are like. again, one last negative is that on all the different policy decisions in the game, you can only ever say yes or no to each proposal. obviously this game came out ten years ago at the time of this review (feb. 2023) but a little more depth or advanced mechanics would've been nice in this aspect of the game, which is nice as is, but still pretty simplistic. overall, this is a fun and light hearted RTS from a really solid developer that i respect and support, so i recommend grabbing this on sale for 90% off, which i definitely consider a steal at that price.

This game does so much well. Story is a bit basic/predictable, but I enjoyed it a lot. Board game elements are also super nice. I don't like the RTS mechanics, nor do I like the dragon mechanics. Flying around as a dragon feels pretty bad and so does shooting... And thats like a third of the game. With that being said, consider bumping the difficulty down and just enjoying yourself. Huge reccomendation for people who want to make their own strategy/narrative/action hybrid games. So many systems, and it does so much wrong.

The AI has a pretenity towards doomstacking rushes that beat your army, your defences, and your dragon in a handful of moments. Use many cheats if you must play this. Also, no Imp wife. You cowards.

My little Dreamativity I'm your [b]dragon[/b] You - my [b]commander[/b] Let's blow this wagon With our role-play thunder I want to start by saying that I don't like the Steam review system for many reasons and one of them is that you can either recommend the game or not, there is only 'light and dark' and no gray zone. So, if I could, I would write a review about this game, putting it exactly in this gray zone. But, yet, I don't have such an option, so I decided that the game has some cool ideas and positive moments that mean to me more than a negative side of it. It's a nice addition to the Divinity universe in my opinion. I like the 'story' side. Let's call it this way. The main plot is simple and there is nothing special about it. But... The communication between you and your advisers and generals + decisions about the future of your kingdom... It's awesome, fun, and cool! You can be a tyrant, a conservator or some liberator, a progressive ruler, to help save nature or to side with tycoons, etc. These events are randomly generated, and you can choose your way, though keep in mind that the people of the kingdom will react to it in different ways, as well as your advisers and generals, and it will open even more dialogues and interactions. And these are the main game and interesting points for me. All of these are going on at your personal ship. And here you can also get some improvements. I like how it's done as well. You can upgrade your army or the dragon form, or go for kingdom general improvements. All in all, I like it, it's interesting, and it's good to have several progression systems! All that I described above made me like the game and even have a thought to re-play it in the future to try different options. What I didn't like? The strategy part. The game consists of several chapters, and each chapter has its own map. They are small. And the kingdom building is middle air. Not bad, not good. Nothing you couldn't see if you played global strategies, moreover, it's simplified and cut. The same about the battles. They are boring and unbalanced. It's easier to upgrade your dragon form and focus on winning the game with it than doing it using your army as well. And the visual... The ship part looks great and beautiful, while the battle part's visual is terrible to my taste. So, I recommend the game to see those interactions and try to be the ruler you want. And I do not recommend it in any way to play as strategy, main point. It's a dull and poor game from this point of view.

Dragon Commander is a boring RTS with excellent story and worldbuilding, which is standard for Larian. Get it during a sale for 5$