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Dominions 3: The Awakening cover art

Dominions 3: The Awakening

Illwinter Game Design · 2013-09-10

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Sep 29, 2006 (Linux), Sep 29, 2006 (Mac), Sep 29, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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.

Dominions 3: The Awakening is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2013, priced at $19.99, with an estimated owner base of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (81% of 127 reviews).

0
playing now
81%
positive of 127 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Dominions 3: The Awakening is a fantasy turn-based strategy game created by Illwinter and published in 2006 by Shrapnel Games. It is the third game in the Dominions series, preceded by Dominions: Priests, Prophets and Pretenders and Dominions II: The Ascension Wars. Illwinter's publishing contract with Shrapnel Games expired in November 2012 and Dominions 3 was republished on Desura in late December and soon after on GamersGate. Dominions 3 went through the Greenlight process and was released on Steam in September 2013.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 49,650 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 5.1k–10k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 127 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.46 at GamersGate (2017-10-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
101020132026Week of 2013-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2015-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$2.992015-01-012025-01-032015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-06-11 — best price $9.992015-09-07 — best price $19.992016-02-05 — best price $5.992016-06-23 — best price $6.992016-10-06 — best price $3.002016-12-05 — best price $9.992017-02-06 — best price $9.992017-05-15 — best price $9.992017-08-21 — best price $6.792017-11-03 — best price $19.992017-12-11 — best price $19.992018-02-16 — best price $19.992018-05-07 — best price $19.992018-07-06 — best price $19.992018-10-01 — best price $19.992018-11-30 — best price $19.992019-03-08 — best price $19.992019-06-26 — best price $4.992019-08-29 — best price $3.752019-10-04 — best price $19.992019-12-03 — best price $19.992020-01-03 — best price $19.992020-06-26 — best price $3.002020-08-31 — best price $19.992020-12-01 — best price $19.992021-02-01 — best price $4.992021-04-12 — best price $19.992021-09-13 — best price $4.992021-11-15 — best price $19.992022-09-19 — best price $3.742022-11-30 — best price $19.992023-01-28 — best price $19.992023-06-29 — best price $3.992023-10-30 — best price $19.992024-01-04 — best price $19.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-12-20 — best price $3.752025-01-03 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1702026-05-31 — 7 pageviews2026-06-04 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 16 pageviews2026-06-12 — 8 pageviews2026-06-16 — 6 pageviews2026-06-20 — 6 pageviews2026-06-24 — 7 pageviews2026-06-28 — 2 pageviews2026-07-02 — 2 pageviews2026-07-06 — 3 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-14 — 4 pageviews2026-07-18 — 17 pageviews2026-07-22 — 8 pageviews2026-07-26 — 6 pageviews2026-07-30 — 3 pageviews2026-08-03 — 3 pageviews2026-08-07 — 5 pageviews2026-08-11 — 2 pageviews2026-08-15 — 7 pageviews2026-08-19 — 3 pageviews2026-08-23 — 4 pageviews2026-08-27 — 4 pageviews2026-08-31 — 4 pageviews2026-09-04 — 3 pageviews2026-09-08 — 4 pageviews2026-09-12 — 1 pageviews2026-09-16 — 4 pageviews2026-09-20 — 6 pageviews2026-09-24 — 2 pageviews2026-09-28 — 12 pageviews2026-10-02 — 3 pageviews2026-10-06 — 6 pageviews2026-10-10 — 1 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCross-Platform MultiplayerCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyPlayable without Timed InputSave AnytimeFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

4XIndieFantasyGod GameModdableStrategyDifficultTurn-BasedMultiplayerSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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