Turn-based strategy at your own pace
Claim land, connect your territories, and cut five computer rivals apart—without letting your own army empty its treasury.
Four Core maps, one daily map, and every difficulty level are free. No account or card required.
How it plays
Every connected stretch of land is its own kingdom, with its own gold and its own units to pay for. Split a rival’s kingdom, and only the half with its capital keeps the gold. If the other half can’t pay its units, they become graves.
A real move · Stonefold, round 14
One 10-gold Villager did all of this. The same rule applies to your kingdoms: every unit you buy needs enough land behind it to pay its upkeep.
Economy
Stronger units cross tougher borders, but each kingdom pays its own upkeep. Every rank costs three times the upkeep of the one below. If a kingdom cannot pay, every unit in it becomes a grave.
Strength 1
Bought directly
Uses the income of 2 hexes.
Strength 2
2 Villagers combined
Uses the income of 6 hexes.
Strength 3
3 Villagers combined
Uses the income of 18 hexes.
Strength 4
4 Villagers combined
Uses the income of 54 hexes.
Choose a unit to see which borders it can take.
A Knight also breaks through castles and Spearmen.
Numbers in hexes are defense: the strongest piece on a hex or beside it. An attacker must be stronger; ties hold.
Castle 15 gold. Guards its hex and the hexes beside it at strength 2, with no upkeep.
Kingdom finances show income, upkeep, and the projected result before you buy, with a warning when a kingdom can’t pay.
Watch Build an Army You Can Afford · 1:15Full match
A real match on Longwake against five Legend computer rivals, replayed move for move: the opening land grab, joined kingdoms, a starved army, and their surrender in round 19.
Watch the full match · 2:12Pace
Start free on either. Your saves stay in the browser or on the device where you play.
Four Core maps, one daily map, and every difficulty level are free. No account or card required.
Free to download. Four Core maps, one daily map, and every difficulty level stay free.
Maps and Stats
Dominex generates four maps on your device each day, the same four for everyone on that local date. One is free, and its style rotates. Premium opens all four.
Stonefold, Twin Neck, Longwake, and Lacewater are always free. Learn each one on Casual, then step up. Each level caps how many of its estimated attacks a computer rival may make per turn.
Win every Core map at every level to complete all 16 goals. Stats also keeps your win rate, streaks, and fewest-round wins, and compares each best only with the same map at the same level.
Example local history shown in the Stats screen. Everything stays on your device.
Finish a daily match on its day, won or lost, to keep your streak. New matches keep their final board in Stats. Nothing is ranked against other players.
Four Core maps, one daily map, and every difficulty level are free. No account or card required.
Premium
One lifetime purchase in the iPhone and iPad app. No subscription.
Replayed daily maps do not count toward your daily streak.
Free to download. Four Core maps, one daily map, and every difficulty level stay free. The app shows the current Premium price.
Free to try in your browser. Saving and playing your map needs Premium on iPhone or iPad.
All four Core maps, one of each day’s four daily maps, and every difficulty level, with saving and undo. You do not need an account, a card, or a subscription.
No. The app suggests Stonefold on Casual as a first match and keeps a rules reference one tap away. How a turn works shows the rules in a one-minute video and four short lessons.
In any modern browser on a phone, tablet, or computer, including Android. There is also an app for iPhone and iPad.
No. It is single-player: you against five computer rivals on every map.
The iPhone and iPad app plays offline. In a browser, open the game once while online. Core maps, today’s daily maps, and saved matches then work offline. The editor, Stats, and help screens each need to be opened once online first.
No. Matches, records, and maps stay in the browser or on the device where you play. There is no account or cloud sync.
Every level uses the same computer player. Casual, Normal, and Veteran allow each rival roughly a quarter, half, or three-quarters of its estimated attacks per turn. Legend has no limit.
Premium is one lifetime purchase in the iPhone and iPad app. The app shows the current price. There is no web checkout.
No. They are procedural game AI that runs on your device, without an AI service.
Dominex is an independent game inspired by the rules of Sean O’Connor’s Slay. The editor includes classic Slay Islands maps as templates, credited to their creators where known.
Simple rules. Deep strategy.
Four Core maps, one daily map, and every difficulty level are free. No account or card required.
