Theocracy

Theocracy is a single-player, turn-based strategy game in which you lead a theocratic empire toward world domination. Explore an ancient, undiscovered world, expand from your Holy Land and defeat AI-controlled rival theocracies through military conquest, peaceful conversion and divine interventions. The game uses a top-down 2D map styled after classical antique maps, with retro graphics and slow-paced gameplay.

Expand your theocracy

At the start, each player controls one region, while the rest of the world is filled with pagan regions. You take turns moving armies, attacking enemies, choosing research and production for your regions, and enacting dogmas, or commandments. You can conquer regions with armies or convert them peacefully using Power, a resource that radiates from your regions, shrines, holy men and miracles. Power affects the surrounding area and can also be accumulated to enact dogmas and cast miracles.

Manage and improve your regions, build fortifications and shrines in strategic locations, and discover new knowledge. You can explore uncharted areas, convert pagans and enemy regions with divine power, or take them by force.

Miracles and dogmas

Divine interventions let you alter events across the world. Summon monsters and holy men, strike an approaching army with thunder, punish sinners with a volcanic eruption or cause a solar eclipse. You can also invoke the Apocalypse, though formidable heretics, atheists and aliens stand in your way.

Victory

Important achievements earn Victory Points, and the first player to reach 100 wins. Points are awarded for the share of the world’s population following your religion, conquering other players’ Holy Lands, enacting dogmas, creating holy men, discovering sacred mountains and invoking the Apocalypse miracle.

The game focuses on strategic action rather than extensive micromanagement of features such as roads and farms. A game can be won or lost in a single session.