Deus Novum

Deus Novum is a god game in which you build villages, cast miracles and train a creature to help reclaim the mortal world from evil. You are a new god, born in the world of the gods, while your creature is born among mortals. The creature is your avatar in the mortal world, and its crystal connects you to humanity. Other gods have lost their connection to the mortal world at the hands of evil, but they guide you as you take back the world one island at a time.

Claim the islands

You begin each island with one village and expand to control the map. You can convert human villages by impressing their inhabitants or removing them, and destroy evil villages to take them over and establish new human settlements. Evil villagers may try to seize your village if they see it as weak. Converting villages earns skill points you can spend to unlock miracles.

Build and defend

With help from your villagers, you rebuild settlements by constructing houses, schools, altars and other buildings. Conduits channel prayer power to operate certain buildings. Enemies attack villages next to their own, kidnapping children, burning fields and storehouses, destroying buildings and causing other damage. Evil creatures join these attacks, making them more challenging.

Cast miracles

You can unlock miracles including Storm, Fireball, Lightning and Summon Lava Golem. Villagers' worship gives you power to cast them, as do sacrifices of flora, fauna or even villagers. Your creature can learn to cast miracles by watching you use them.

Choose and train a creature

Choose an Ape, Panther, Turtle or Bear, each with a different personality, and select its skin or fur and eye colors. Your creature begins clueless and learns from your behavior; you can reinforce what it learns with pets or punishment. Train it to eat goblins, cast miracles, help villagers and more. With the leash, you can take direct control and command it to move, pick things up or fight.

The three islands

The game takes about 6–8 hours and follows your effort to reclaim three islands for humanity:

• Orsus: the island of beginning.
• Rota: a tropical island with an evil creature.
• Crag Peak: a large island that serves as a stronghold of the evil empire.