Disciples: Domination

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.

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.

This is a sequel to Disciples Liberation, and it's a sequel that expects you to play the original. If you haven't played Liberation yet, play it instead. It's a decent but janky King's Bounty-style tactical RPG, and a better game. If you have played Liberation, this is a worthy enough continuation to that story. That said, it's not a [i]good[/i] continuation. The writing suffers badly from Second Game In A Trilogy Syndrome, forbidden from paying anything off or even setting things up in a more nuanced way than "here's the crisis, here's the big bad, come back in five years". The new kingdom management is very bad as well, basically just being "spend resources to make everyone love you, then everyone loves you", with a tiny handful of choices that would be interesting to follow up on if the ending didn't invalidate them all anyway. There's less unit variety, the easy lategame and basic repetitiveness are still there, and New Game Plus has downgraded from "play through the game again with a tiny bit of new power fantasy dialogue for a more sugary ending" to "play through the game again with no writing changes until the end for an even less fulfilling ending". The combat, worldbuilding and sidequests are still decent enough, and you might not regret picking it up on sale if you're invested in Liberation's story, but don't expect quality.

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.

The game doesn't even reach 60fps with DLSS on ultra performance and all settings on low\ultra low with my specs. Atrocious. Just atrocious. My GPU constantly runs on 90-99%.

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.