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Conquest of Elysium 5

Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.

2021 Indie Strategy ★ Very Positive
Conquest of Elysium 5

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Conquest of Elysium 5 Beginner Guide — Your First Game

Conquest of Elysium 5 is fast and full of weird systems, but a sensible start makes it click quickly. This beginner guide covers the essentials: start with the straightforward Baron, explore to conquer resource sites, spend your resources on rituals to summon an army, and above all guard your home citadel. You will learn the core explore-gather-summon loop, how combat resolves on its own, why losing your citadel or commanders ends the game instantly, and how to survive and win your first game.

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Conquest of Elysium 5 Classes Tier List — Best Classes

Conquest of Elysium 5 has over twenty wildly different classes, and they are more about playstyle than fine balance. This tier list ranks well-known classes by overall power and accessibility — how strong they are and how easy they are to learn — while stressing that almost any class is viable. You will learn why the Baron and Necromancer top the list for power and ease, where the Demonologist and others fit, and how to read the tiers as a rough guide rather than a strict ranking.

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Conquest of Elysium 5 Combat Guide — Win Your Battles

Combat in Conquest of Elysium 5 is resolved automatically, so winning is about building and positioning the right army, not micromanaging the fight. This guide covers how battles work, how composition and positioning decide them, how to use commanders, how to expand safely, and how to protect your citadel from a sudden, game-ending raid. You will learn how to build a balanced force, place your units to win, pick the fights you can take, and avoid the instant loss of an undefended base.

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Conquest of Elysium 5 Resources Guide — Gather & Summon

Resources and rituals are the engine of Conquest of Elysium 5, and managing them well is how you build a strong force. This guide explains how each class gathers its own resources from conquered locations, why your commanders are the gatherers, how rituals spend resources to summon your army, and how to run the loop efficiently. You will learn what to conquer and why, how to protect your resource income, how rituals and variable costs work, and how to turn resources into the army that wins.

Overview

What's the Game?

Conquest of Elysium 5 is a quick turn based fantasy strategy game with a touch of rogue-like. The game is full of depth, details and monsters. There are also a huge number of factions, each with its own unique gameplay and magic rituals.

Over twenty wild classes

— Each class, from Baron to Demonologist, plays completely differently, with its own resources, rituals and armies.

Resource-and-ritual core

— Conquer sites for class-specific resources, then spend them on rituals to summon monstrous forces.

Fast and replayable

— Procedural maps, ten planes and quick games make it endlessly fresh and accessible.

Auto-resolved combat

— Build and position the right army, then watch the battle resolve.

Honest caveats

— Famously ugly graphics, a weak AI, and English only.

Languages

— English only; no Japanese, Korean or Chinese.

Trailer

Trailer

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Screenshots

Screenshots

Languages

Supported Languages

Language Interface Audio Subtitles
English

Spec

System Requirements

Windows

Minimum

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: win 10 or later Processor: 64-bit processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL Storage: 3 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

macOS

Minimum

Minimum: Requires an Apple processor OS: 13.0 or later Processor: ARM processor (M1+) Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL Storage: 3 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended: Requires an Apple processor

Linux

Minimum

Minimum: OS: any 64-bit distro Processor: 64-bit processor Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL Storage: 3 GB available space

Recommended

Recommended:

FAQ

FAQ

A fast-paced fantasy strategy game from Illwinter Game Design, the studio behind Dominions. You pick one of over twenty wildly different classes, explore a procedurally generated map, conquer locations that produce class-specific resources, and use rituals to summon armies of monsters. Battles resolve automatically across ten planes of existence. It is single-player or multiplayer, and far quicker and more accessible than Dominions.
Both are Illwinter fantasy strategy games, but very different in feel. Dominions is a deep, slow grand strategy where you design a god and build a nation; Conquest of Elysium 5 is faster, lighter and more roguelike, where you pick a class, explore, gather resources and summon armies. It is much more accessible and quicker to play, trading some of Dominions’ depth for speed, variety and an exploratory style.
Your class is the heart of the game, and there are over twenty, each playing completely differently. A Baron fields human soldiers, knights and siege engines; a Necromancer raises the undead using Hands of Glory; a Demonologist summons demons that must be sated with human flesh; a Witch follows an old faith. Each class has its own resources, rituals and units, so picking a new class is like playing a whole new game.
Combat is resolved automatically. You move your commanders and armies around the map, and when forces meet, the battle plays out on its own based on your units, their positioning and abilities, rather than you controlling it directly. Your role is to build the right army, position your forces, and pick your fights, not to micromanage the fighting. It is quick and decisive.
No. The Steam store lists English only, with no official Japanese, Korean or Chinese localization, and the game is fairly text-heavy across its classes, rituals, units and events. Non-English players should weigh the language barrier before buying, since understanding your class’s resources, rituals and options depends on reading the text.

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