Games like Dominions 3: The Awakening
If Dominions 3: The Awakening is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension, Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith and Conquest of Elysium 3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Dominions 3: The Awakening: The Old God has left the world and the pretenders are awakening and coming out from hiding. You start the game by designing one of the pretender gods that will compete for true ascension to godhood. The type of god can range from a magically powerful arch mage to an ancient kraken or a mystic monolith that people pray to.
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Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Top pick for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
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.
Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Second-strongest match for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
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.
Conquest of Elysium 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Third-strongest match for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Conquest of Elysium 3 (CoE3) is a streamlined turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like and the complex undertones of Illwinter's Dominions series. While CoE3 appears to be a simple game with limited options at first glance, delving further into the game reveals a game of complex decision making and risky endeavors.
ENDLESS™ Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Ranked #4 for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
ENDLESS™ Legend is a 4X turn-based fantasy strategy game by the creators of ENDLESS™ Space and Dungeon of the ENDLESS™. Control every aspect of your civilization as you struggle to save your homeworld Auriga. Create your own Legend!
Old World
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Ranked #5 for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Ranked #6 for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
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.
Galactic Civilizations® II: Ultimate Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Ranked #7 for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Get the complete GalCiv II saga including Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, the expansion pack Dark Avatar, and the newest expansion pack Twilight of the Arnor!
Songs of Silence
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Ranked #8 for Dominions 3: The Awakening fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness! Embark on an epic journey of strategy in a visually stunning world. Fight intense battles and uncover a captivating story.
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Master of Magic
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Dominions 3: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Take up the role of a great wizard, wield powerful spells, command fantasy races and challenge your rivals in this remake of a cult turn-based strategy classic. Do you have what it takes to become Master of Magic?
Conquest of Elysium 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Dominions 3: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Conquest of Elysium 3 (CoE3) is a streamlined turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like and the complex undertones of Illwinter's Dominions series. While CoE3 appears to be a simple game with limited options at first glance, delving further into the game reveals a game of complex decision making and risky endeavors.
Total War: WARHAMMER II
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Dominions 3: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
Dwarf Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Dominions 3: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Build a fortress and try to help your dwarves survive against a deeply generated world. Keep your dwarves happy, grow their community and beware of digging too deeply. The deepest, most intricate simulation of a world that's ever been created.
Dominion
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Reviewers of Dominions 3: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Expand a small kingdom to a mighty Dominion! Play the Spiel des Jahres winning boardgame beloved by millions around the world. Discover the game that defined a genre, Dominion was first to popularize deck-building and remains a staple of tabletop. This is the officially licensed implementation.
Toe-tal War
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Dominions 3: The Awakening cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Toe-tal War is a platformer where you kill people with your foot smell. Run and jump to make your feet smelly, change your shoes and socks to control the smell — then get close to enemies and stink them to death.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dominions 3: The Awakening at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dominions 3: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dominions 3: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Dominions 3: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Dominions 3: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Dominions 3: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Dominions 3: The Awakening on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
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Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Dota 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Aimlabs
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Aimlabs is the aim trainer of choice for over 45 Million players, from beginners to esports pros. Our unique aim analysis optimizes your gameplay, targets your weaknesses & builds key skills for any FPS game! Time to warm up with our unlimited scenarios & rank up in-game!
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More from Illwinter Game Design
Other recommendable Steam games by Illwinter Game Design, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Another title from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions 3: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
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.
Conquest of Elysium 5
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Another title from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions 3: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.
Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Another title from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions 3: The Awakening. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
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.
Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Another title from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions 3: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
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.
Conquest of Elysium 4
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Another title from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions 3: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Conquest of Elysium 4 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.
Conquest of Elysium 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Another title from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions 3: The Awakening. Shares Strategy and Indie with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
Conquest of Elysium 3 (CoE3) is a streamlined turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like and the complex undertones of Illwinter's Dominions series. While CoE3 appears to be a simple game with limited options at first glance, delving further into the game reveals a game of complex decision making and risky endeavors.
Dominions - Priests, Prophets & Pretenders
WHY THIS
Another title from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions 3: The Awakening. Shares Strategy with Dominions 3: The Awakening.
In Dominions you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. It all takes place in a fantasy world with monsters, magic items and world altering spells. Dominions is a 4x turn based strategy game with a large variety of spells and units.
Frequently asked about Dominions 3: The Awakening
- How much does Dominions 3: The Awakening cost?
- Dominions 3: The Awakening is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Dominions 3: The Awakening have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Dominions 3: The Awakening supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer).
- What games are most similar to Dominions 3: The Awakening?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dominions 3: The Awakening are Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension, Dominions 5 - Warriors of the Faith, Conquest of Elysium 3.
- Who developed Dominions 3: The Awakening?
- Dominions 3: The Awakening was developed by Illwinter Game Design.
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