Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
At $39.99. It has been as low as $9.99.
- Multiplayer: 75 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Story and characters: 29 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Interface: 29 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews
Based on 2k player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
- A very active community across several platforms (Steam, Discord, 4.chan, various forums...), with both veterans and beginners that interact with each other on a daily basis to discuss strategy, answer questions, help newcomers, organize multiplayer games and events, create mods and utilitary softwares...
- A masterpiece of emergent narration: each playthrough really tells a unique story that you build along with the game; your imagination will be constantly involved and stimulated
I highly recommend you to check “The Interface” chapter in the manual (pages 13 – 20) when setting up your first few games.
- Firstly: replayability.
This lengthy report comes to you from a very good 4X player (max difficulty other titles), an intermediate Dom5 noob, and Dom5 multiplayer virgin soon to be crushed by ethereal bless effects, supercombatants, and stealthy raids on all my provinces.
* Excellent soundtrack, featuring indie composers
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 3 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $39.99. The lowest we've tracked is $9.99.
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