Dominion

Take one action per turn, research a technology, grow a city, or found a new one, and a rival AI replies. Technologies must follow their prerequisites, so plan your path through the tree. After twenty turns the higher-scoring empire wins.

• Pick a researchable technology, then press Research to study it
• Grow your cities to raise food, production and science yields
• Banked production lets you found new cities on empty tiles
• Out-score the rival across cities and technologies by turn twenty

• Desktop: click a tech in the tree, click an empty map tile, and click the action buttons
• Phone & tablet: tap a tech, tap a tile to settle, then tap an action

• Grow early so your science output snowballs into faster research later
• Found cities on strong terrain tiles to boost the yields you most need
• You only get one action a turn, don't waste a move researching a tech you can't yet support

Dominion is a turn-based strategy game about technology, expansion and empire-building, dramatizing the long arc of history.

• Skills: world history, technological progress, expansion, strategy
• Best for: roughly grades 7–12 (ages 12+)
• For parents & teachers: the long arc of technology and empire.

Taking one action a turn — research, grow a city, or found a new one — against a rival, with technologies gated by prerequisites, is the technology tree, the structure Civilization fixed for the genre in 1991.

Keeping the action economy to one move a turn is the original tightening.

A single action per turn makes the tree a real commitment rather than a checklist. Prerequisites mean every technology is also a decision to delay another branch, which is the historical claim the structure is making: that developments enable each other in an order.

Dominion is an original turn-based strategy game about technology, expansion and empire-building against an AI rival. Play free in your browser with daily and practice scenarios.

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