Illwinter Game Design

Illwinter Game Design Illwinter is an independent game company, specialised in strategy games in ficitve worlds. We create games that focus on depth and lasting playability.

Illwinter Game Design started sometime in the 1990s by making a fantasy themed strategy game for the Atari called Conquest of Elysium. Actully the company was called Bogus Game Design then, but that name had some drawback so we changed it to Illwinter a few years later. Animation sequences are intentionally kept simple to allow us to stuff more monsters and spells in the game than any other game,

except possibly a roguelike. They don't have any graphics for the monsters after all. Random worlds are also an important feature in our games. We like to play the games when developing them and without much randomness that would not be very fun. Out next game was Dominions. A deep strategy game that in its third incarnation features over 1500 different units, over 600 spells and over 300 magic items.

The moose patch is released!
06/10/2025

The moose patch is released!

A new nation called Zemaitia is now available for the late age. Zemaitia is a nation of Chudes and humans who have lived hidden in their forests since the Black Knights of Ulm conquered their heartland. With time the Ulmish conquerors succumbed to the dweomer of the forests and became part of the na...

New nation released for Dominions 6
29/04/2024

New nation released for Dominions 6

A new nation, Pyrène, Cambion Kings is now available for the Late Age in Dominions. The Black Goats of earlier times have been ousted and replaced by Cambion half-demons sired by succubus and incubus devils summoned by the church. This new version has many performance improvements and very large ga...

Dominions 6 released on steam!
17/01/2024

Dominions 6 released on steam!

In Dominions 6 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to old dragons or an enormous tree. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

06/12/2023

Dominions 6 will be released on January 17!

The Dominions 6 Steam Page is available now. Check it out for more information about the game.
22/07/2023

The Dominions 6 Steam Page is available now. Check it out for more information about the game.

In Dominions 6 you take control of a powerful being that rules a nation and aspires to godhood. The type of Pretender Gods can vary from magically powerful arch mages to old dragons or an enormous tree. Dominions is a deep 4x turn based strategy game with a very large variety of spells and units.

14/07/2023

We would like to announce that development of Dominions 6 is well under way.
We expect the game to be released at the end of the year.

When compared to earlier iterations of the game this one has more changes than any previous version, both mechanics-wise and UI/QoL-wise.

The game is already in good shape and most major changes are implemented, but we intend to add more stuff in the upcoming months.

A Steam-page will appear shortly where more details will be presented.

A New Dominions 5 update has been released.
26/01/2023

A New Dominions 5 update has been released.

This update contains a bunch of bug fixes and improvements. AI players will now handle disciple games better and a bug preventing the AI players from equipping items properly has also been fixed. The game will also work better for some users of the new AMD Radeon driver in Windows. General More new....

New update for Dominions 5 released!
10/10/2022

New update for Dominions 5 released!

The most important fix for this version is that Dominions should now work better with the new AMD graphics driver for Windows. This fix should be enabled automatically for the relevant driver, but if it isn't start the game with the "--renderpath 1" startup option (no ""). There....

Another new class added to Conquest of Elysium 5.
03/07/2022

Another new class added to Conquest of Elysium 5.

This update brings another new playable class to Elysium, the Raksharaja, a Demon that has infiltrated and taken control over a society of monkey people. The Raksharaja will use the monkey to get hold of blood sacrifices in order to summon more demons. This new class also comes with a new tune made....

A new class has been added to CoE5. The Monkey Maharaja.
04/04/2022

A new class has been added to CoE5. The Monkey Maharaja.

This update brings a new playable class to Elysium, the Monkey Maharaja. This new class have many monkeys of different size and standing, as well as Gurus capable of summoning previously unknown mythic beings and reincarnating after dying. There is also a new tune for the Monkey Maharaja made by Adr...

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