Sensiga Studios quietly posted their upcoming 4X game, Godking, on Steam today! Godking: Master of the Rituals is a fantasty 4X game that appears to be taking cues from both Master of Magic and even the Dominions series. While the strategic portion of the game will be pretty familiar to any 4X fan, the combat is more akin to the Dominions series, wherein you’ll watch your armies battle it out in a semi-turn-based fashion that occurs automatically.

It will be entering Early Access soon, but here’s a snippet from their Steam page that will help you understand more of what’s to come:

ABOUT THIS GAME

Godking: Master of Rituals is a fantasy strategy game inspired by 25 years of classics, while bringing a host of new features and innovations to the table.

Pick your faction and your god-like incarnation, build your empire and crush all enemies.

Play as the Blackbog Goblins – who rely on cheap slaves and dark magic, the Scaleborne – lizardmen clans who can swim across the seas, Mercia – the once great human kingdom who can field huge armies of armored knights, United Tribes – the human barbarian brotherhood of freefolk, the Returned – skeletal armies of undead warriors and necromantic mages, or Khaoset – the chaos entity able to reproduce itself into a whole faction of mind linked mutated chaos creatures.

Pick one faction to lead. The rest you will have to destroy…

Key Features

A new 4X experience, with a rich fantasy universe to explore and powerful enemies to destroy



Six unique playable factions, all with their own set of units, spells and even mechanics and how to play them



Six unique god-like incarnations – the representation of you the player in the world, each with their own set of passive abilities, combat stats, spells and strategies. They combine and mix with all factions, for added replayability and experience differentiation



Visually beautiful automatic combat – with knights, arrows, flying spells and terrifying monsters – you plan your army compositions to effectively beat the next enemy, then you lean back and watch as your brilliant plans unfold



– with knights, arrows, flying spells and terrifying monsters – you plan your army compositions to effectively beat the next enemy, then you lean back and watch as your brilliant plans unfold Rogue-like elements, with randomly generated maps, randomly placed holdings, randomized holding defenses, randomly placed magical artifacts and randomly placed world treasure chests and wandering monsters – this gives the game enormous replayability. Always a new experience and sometimes with almost hilarious results

Will you take form as the Blazing Invoker, a master of fire? Will you be the Older Earthmother, who protects and heals? Will you play the High Shaman, a barbarian incarnation able to summon wolves and shapeshift into wereform? Or maybe you pick the Wraith Lord, an ancient undead mage? Or are you at heart the Harbinger of Chaos, a creature able to summon mutated forms from the plane of chaos?

A new world awaits you – so awaken as Godking. Claim your throne.

We here at eXplorminate will certainly be watching this game very closely and plan to report on its Early Access period as often as possible.

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