Looking for testers for RPG/strategy text-based game/interactive fiction "Dominion of Darkness".

[Adeptus]

Dominion of Darkness is a strategy/RPG text game (there are some 2D illustrations) in which the player takes on the role of a Sauron-style Lord of Darkness with the goal of conquering the world. He will carry out his plans by making various decisions. He will build his army and send it into battles, weave intrigues and deceptions, create secret spy networks and sectarian cults, recruit agents and commanders, corrupt representatives of Free Peoples and sow discord among them, collect magical artifacts and perform sinister plots.

Contrary to most "villain simulators" it is not supposed to be parody game. It doesn't mean that it is deadly serious, there is some black humour. There are themes like genocide, torture, slavery, demon summoning, human sacrifices, cannibalism, BDSM.

Here is the prototype (but in this post I am searching for people to test new, extended and improved version): https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion

I am looking for people eager to help with playtesting - especially fluent in English. You will play, send me Your opinion, information about possible bugs, some details about stats achieved during it.

If You are interested, please send me na email on [email protected]

PS. If You don't believe that game exists and think that this is some scam, here are reviews of the prototype:

- Indie Sampler:
- [BOKC] BlancoKix:

 

[Adeptus]

Ok, in the meantime, I am still improving the game. Some of the things I added recently:

– extended endgame, especially for the Influence based characters – you conquered all kingdoms? Now secure your eternal rule by proving your divinity. Or, if you play as Destroyer of Live, carry out a world-scale euthanasia plan,

– new subplot – Rise of the Witchlands. Remember that fallen ancient civilization which ruins You could pillage? That is not dead which can eternal lie,

- extended economy - now You can destroy/help economy of the Free People in new and more meaningfull ways,

- extended Chosen One plot - now sometimes You can corrupt him.

Also - there is new review, in Choice Beat zine. You can read it below, or in the zine (page 30): https://www.flipsnack.com/choicebeat/choicebeat-issue-13/full-view.html

 

[Drathnoxis]

Did anybody from here do any testing?

 

[Summerstorm]

I was thinking about it... Has been a while since i volunteered and wrote some stuff and did some testing though. (Mostly because it was always in late Beta and no one would change anything in that phase, hehe).

I might take a look at the game this weekend. Thematically it could be interesting.

 

[Adeptus]

I was thinking about it... Has been a while since i volunteered and wrote some stuff and did some testing though. (Mostly because it was always in late Beta and no one would change anything in that phase, hehe).

I might take a look at the game this weekend. Thematically it could be interesting.

Thanks for Your interest. If You want to help in testing, please, if You see something which looks like a bug, send a printscreen - including stats visible, it helps finf cause of the bug. If You'g have an empty screen, please write was the scene directly before it. Of course, if You have any other suggestion, please, share them.

 

[Adeptus]

And now it is the time for the big update, focusing primarily on the endgame. Players focused on direct conquest will have new ways to find new battlefields - portals to crazy, Lovecraftian worlds, discovering new lands, and a magical slumber to wait for the rebirth of old enemies/the emergence of new ones (and seeing how the world changes in their absence). For players more interested in the less brutal side of world domination, the options for managing the territories of our empire will be expanded. Will you allow orcs to overrun Dark Elf cities? Will schools focus on training engineers for the army and economy, or on brainwashing them into blind obedience? Furthermore, I’m expanding the Dark Lord’s interactions with other characters, including available romances. Of course, new content requires testing, and since, as usual, it’s highly non-linear and dependent on player decisions (plus random generation), I can’t test every combination myself.


Game, as always, is available free here: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion No need for dowload or registration.

And another news - one of the players made a fan song inspired by the game:

 

[Adeptus]

This is Joanna Szatecka (Instagram) (photo: Fine Art Wiktor) and her vision of the female Despotic Tyrant player character from the Twine RPG/strategy game Dominion of Darkness - Dark Lord/Lady Simulator: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominion

She is a LARP organizer: https://www.facebook.com/BialyGryfLARPY



I thank her very much!