Dominions II: The Ascension Wars is a 4X turn-based computer strategy game. It was developed by Illwinter Game Design and published by Shrapnel Games. The game was released on November 14 2003 in North America for Microsoft Windows Mac OS X and Linux. Dominions II: The Ascension Wars was the sequel to Dominions: Priests Prophets and Pretenders. It was followed by Dominions 3: The Awakening in 2006. Dominions II: The Ascension Wars is a 4X turn-based computer strategy game. The players play the role of the god of one out of 17 different nations and battle each other for the dominance of a fantasy world. At the most basic level Dominions II is similar to Risk. It is also similar to Civilization. The world is divided into many provinces that change hands after a tactical battle. The players use armies of men and monsters to fight these battles.