2025Donald X. Vaccarino
- Videos
- 110
- Creators
- 89
1 - 5 players45 - 90 minMedium weight

2008Donald X. Vaccarino
Mainly reviews. Dominion is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 34 reviews, 18 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 11 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
"You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner. But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn't be proud, but your grandparents, on your mother's side, would be delighted." -description from the back of the box In Dominion, each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end. Dominion is not a Collectible Card Game (CCG), but the play of the game is similar to the construction and play of a CCG deck. The game comes with 500 cards. You select 10 of the 25 Kingdom card types to include in any given play-leading to immense variety. -user summary Part of the Dominion series.
Dominion has 75 videos from 58 creators: 34 reviews, 18 how-to-play guides, 10 playthroughs, 2 unboxings and 11 other videos. They date from 2008 to August 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Dominion: Complete Tutorial, Example Game and Dominion Shuffle (Strategy Segment)" by Nam / krazee_aznnn, which runs 54 min. For a quicker teach, "How to play Dominion" by Triple S Games runs 5 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "UFBRT: Dominion (Episode 4)" by UvulaBob. 27 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Dominion Shuffle: Episode 1 (Game and Strategy Segment)" by Nam / krazee_aznnn, one of 10 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Moon Colony Bloodbath, Dominion: Rising Sun, Kingdom Builder and Dominion: Plunder, also by Donald X. Vaccarino.
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2025Donald X. Vaccarino
1 - 5 players45 - 90 minMedium weight
2024Donald X. Vaccarino
2 - 4 players30 minMedium weight
2011Donald X. Vaccarino
2 - 4 players45 minMedium weight
2022Donald X. Vaccarino
2 - 4 players30 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
"You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner. But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn't be proud, but your grandparents, on your mother's side, would be delighted." -description from the back of the box In Dominion, each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end. Dominion is not a Collectible Card Game (CCG), but the play of the game is similar to the construction and play of a CCG deck. The game comes with 500 cards. You select 10 of the 25 Kingdom card types to include in any given play-leading to immense variety. -user summary Part of the Dominion series.
Designer
Donald X. Vaccarino
Artists
Matthias Catrein, Julien Delval, Tomasz Jedruszek, Ryan Laukat, Harald Lieske, Michael Menzel, Marcel-André Casasola Merkle, Claus Stephan and 1 more
Publisher
Rio Grande Games
Categories
Mechanics