Slay vs Dominex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slay
Engage in a turn-based strategy game set in medieval times. Conquer enemy territories, expand your own, and strategically upgrade your units from peasants to powerful barons. Balance resource management to avoid bankruptcy and achieve victory.
- Territory capture and expansion
- Unit upgrades (Peasants to Barons)
- Strategic combat and castle sieges
- Resource management and bankruptcy risk
- Turn-based multiplayer
- AI opponents
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Slay is a simple to learn game of strategy and cunning set in medieval times. The island is divided up between the six players, and you must try to capture your enemies' land and link up your own territories to create larger and stronger ones. You begin capturing land by attacking with your peasants. Once your territories become richer you can combine peasants to make stronger and stronger people (Spearmen, Knights and then Barons) who can kill weaker enemy troops, or knock down their castles. Just be careful that you don't create too many expensive men or the territory will go bankrupt! "This game is pure strategy! It's a work of genius. Brilliant AI. Engaging turn-based multiplayer strategy. Sid Meier, eat your heart out!" - GameSpy.com "I love this game! I play it all the time, and when I'm not, I think about wanting to play it." - PocketNow.com "At first glance, Slay looks elementary, but hidden beneath are cunning strategy elements that must be finely balanced for success" - PC Magazine "Deceptively delightful. The graphics are simple, but the strategy is complex." - Download.com For the latest news on all my games follow @SeansGames on Twitter!
Dominex
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Grow your kingdom. Break theirs at the seams. Dominex is focused, turn-based territory strategy for one player against five computer rivals. Every connected kingdom keeps its own treasury and defense. One border capture can increase your income, join two kingdoms, split a rival's economy, or expose its capital. Take your time over every move. Undo and redo until you end your turn, step away, and resume later. Dominex plays offline, and four new maps are generated on your device every day—one free, all four with Premium. Capture land for income. Combine units to cross stronger borders. Defend the territory holding your kingdom together. Stronger units cost more to maintain; if a kingdom cannot pay, it goes bankrupt. Choose your opening with the Starting land slider. Begin with scattered kingdoms or fewer, larger ones, and preview every player's exact land before starting. Larger kingdoms also start with more gold. Read your rivals' economies as well as your own. Tap any rival kingdom to inspect its gold, income, and upkeep. Review bankruptcy warnings before ending a turn, undo a purchase that leaves you short, and see why units were lost to upkeep. Master every Core map at every level. Stats counts your wins toward 16 goals across four Core maps and four difficulty levels, and tracks your win rate, streaks, and fewest-round wins from Classic starts. Finish a daily map each day to build your streak, and look back at the final board of every new match. Share a daily or bonus map result to send a friend the same challenge, with its difficulty and Starting land. Friends can play shared challenges without Premium, on the web or in the iOS app. Every match stays single-player. Climb the optional daily leaderboard. Join with a nickname, conquer the free daily map on Legend in as few rounds as you can, and see where you rank; every ranked win is checked by replaying it. Once a day's leaderboard closes, watch its best conquests. Watch your own last 20 matches again move by move, and share a replay link anyone can open in a browser. Features • One player against five computer rivals • Casual, Normal, Veteran, and Legend difficulty—all free • Starting land choices with a live opening preview • Rival finances and clear bankruptcy warnings • Daily result sharing with playable challenge links • Optional daily leaderboard of Legend conquests • Replays of your last 20 matches, shareable by link • Stats with streaks, best wins, and final boards • Four hand-crafted Core maps • Four on-device daily maps, one free each day • Automatic saving and one-tap resume • Offline play with no account and no ads • One-time tips and an in-match rules reference • Opponent turns at your choice of pace • Map gallery with Core and classic map previews • High-distinction board colors and cues beyond color • Touch-first controls and haptics for iPhone and iPad Start with four Core maps, one new daily map, and every difficulty level free. Dominex Premium is one lifetime purchase, not a subscription. It opens all four daily maps every day and a new picture-shaped bonus map each week, with its own weeklong leaderboard, and lets you play the daily maps from any earlier day. Your results and daily history stay visible without Premium. Browse previews of all four Core maps and 215 classic Slay maps in the map gallery. Play a Core map directly, or unlock Premium to save and play classic maps against the same five rivals. Try the map editor for free: draw a 35 × 24 battlefield from scratch or edit a copy of a gallery map. Premium lets you save and play your own maps. Your next kingdom is ready.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dominex at Free against Slay's $4.99. Dominex also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Slay's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Dominex is free to download; Slay costs $4.99 up front. Slay sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Dominex sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Slay ships an update every 3 months, Dominex every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Slay | Dominex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (271 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 271 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Sean O'Connor | Matt Westgate |
Bugs and requests
Slay
Reported bugs
3 issues- Multiplayer not working
- Progress not saving in custom levels
- Graphical issues on newer devices
Requested features
6 requests- Option to revert to classic graphics
- Ability to choose starting color
- Larger/randomized map sizes
- Online/multiplayer mode
- Level editor or custom map creation
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- Stats tracking and achievements
Dominex
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Slay
- Snowflakes$0.99
- Countries 1$0.99
- Countries 2$0.99
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- Patterns 1$0.99
- Patterns 2$0.99
- Patterns 3$0.99
- Patterns 4$0.99
- US States$0.99
- Mythical Creatures$0.99
- Whole row of 18 pages$9.99
- Whole 3rd row$9.99
- Whole 4th row$9.99
Dominex
- Dominex Premium$4.99









