Demigod Review

GAMEPLAY

Single Player

In Demigod there are two factions: the Generals – which focus on team synergy abilities and augmentation of their forces; and the Assassins – which focus on brutal abilities and self-enhancing items. The demigods either do battle for the Forces of Light or for the Forces of Darkness.  In selecting a character, there are eight (8) demigods to choose from. They are as follows:

In single player, your team consists of your demigod and other bots that are AI-controlled. During each battle there are sometimes key strategic points which need to be captured and held. These strong points come in the form of flags.  Flags offer bonuses to the controlling team, such as increased life, increased experience gained and even more damage taken by the opposing team, among others. Also, some flags control structures such as gold mines (which increases your resources faster), shops and portals. Only the team controlling that particular flag is able to benefit from or use these structures.

The artifact shop only becomes available to you if your team controls its flag.

There is also the action aspect in which you need to actually fight to gain control, maintain control of, or regain control of these points. Fighting and capturing points are ways in which you can gain experience points in order to level-up. Also, aside from having to contend with the other demigods, there are the other reinforcements (AI-controlled) that arrive to the battle via the portals. Both teams have such reinforcements but if you can manage to control all of the portals, then the opposing team will be left without any.

Control all portals to leave opponents without reinforcements

The role-playing part comes into play with levelling up your demigod as well as your Citadel, which is the seat of power for each team. Upgrading your Citadel gives added bonuses to your war effort. Each demigod can attain a maximum level of twenty (20).

While levelling, there are new skills to be acquired by spending level points in them. Each players starts at level one with one skill point to spend. New skills become available (if you have points to spend) at levels one (1), two (2), four (4), five (5), seven (7), eight (8), ten (10) and fifteen (15). There is also another area dedicated to your character and his/her minions that can be upgraded six (6) times, independent of character level. Minions are used by Generals and are vital to their style of gameplay. More on that a little later.

Character Skill Tree

The Citadel however, has a maximum of ten (10) levels with upgrades all along the way. Keep in mind that when you upgrade your Citadel, the gold cost is deducted from your account. These upgrades range from increasing the health of your reinforcements, to increasing the armour on your structures, to adding new and stronger types of units to your war effort, among others.

Citadel Skill Tree

Speaking of gold, you can spend gold at the item shop for things such as armour, spell scrolls and potions. This is also where you buy your minion upgrades. You can then cast your minions, at a cost from your mana pool and they will then fight alongside you. If they die, you can always recast them. If you die however, then there is a timeout and you will respawn at your Citadel.

Timeout before returning to the battle

Generals ‘generally’ use minions as a part of their attack and/or defense. These minion upgrades are purchased at the item shop near your Citadel. For example, the Oak can acquire Minotaurs, Archers and Priests. The minions can then be summoned at will, providing you have enough mana. The minions are more or less AI-controlled and fight on their own near you. However, you can select them and give them specific orders and also regroup them at any time.

Reborn at the Citadel where you can easily summon minions and cast pre-buff spells