Dominate

Dominate is a 2021 free-to-play multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Clever Interactive for, , , and.

The game allows players to create their own mercenary with its own gender, skin colour, hair, eyes, face, clothes, accessories and voices that can be used as their character. There are two organisations fighting each other. One is G.O.O.D. (Governments Opposing Organised Disorder), an international agency formed by the to combat high-level crime all around the world, and B.A.D. (Brutal, Armed and Dangerous), a multinational criminal organisation that sells drugs, weapons and other things throughout the world and also conspires with other criminal/terrorist groups in order to grow their criminal empire.

Gameplay
When joining a match, the player is required to pick a weapon loadout from their primary, secondary, and melee slots, which they can switch to different weapons during the match. They’re also required to pick a team if they join in a team based game mode. The player is tasked to complete the objective in the specific game mode in order to win the match for themselves or their team. The player can select their weapon to use by using the weapon selector by tapping their weapon or by holding down the weapon selector to quickly scroll and pull out their weapon, in which afterwards the player can fire their weapon by tapping or holding the fire button. The weapon will reload automatically when it's not being fired and can detect what state the weapon is in when it’s switched back to allow the player to not fully wait to reload if they switch to a different weapon in the middle of a reload. The player can move their mercenary forwards and backwards and can turn left and right using the joystick. They can also turn 180 degrees by tapping the turn button.

Game modes
Game modes that have italic text are team-based. * indicates the game mode is both PvP and team-based. Ones that have an underline indicate game modes that were available post-launch through updates.


 * Deathmatch*
 * Attack/Defend
 * Capture the Flag
 * King of the Hill
 * Payload
 *  Hostage : G.O.O.D. has to rescue all the hostages captured by B.A.D. while they have to wait for the timer to run out in order for them to win.
 *  Gold Runners *: The player or team has to pick up the pot of gold in order to score points. Points are awarded to them per second when it’s picked up. The player or team with the most points after five minutes wins.
 *  Escort : G.O.O.D. has to escort a government leader (who is played by another player) back to an exact location while B.A.D. has to kill them to take away time from the enemy. B.A.D. wins when time runs out.
 *  Boxing *: Opponents are put in a boxing ring and can only use boxing gloves. The player or team who wins five games is the champion.
 * Guns & Weapons *: Players or teams have to kill each other in order to level up and use a new weapon. The player or team that reaches the maximum level wins.

Battle modes

 * Casual: Allows you to quickly get into an online game with any players.
 * Ranked: Play matches with players with the same rank as you. Winning matches increases your rank, whilst losing decreases it. Leaving a match mid-game results in a temporary matchmaking ban.
 * Private: Create a game lobby for your friends or other players to join, with you being able to choose any game mode and map you want. You can also join other people's lobbies through your friends list, entering a password, or both.

Training modes

 * Battle Course: Play an offline match with bots on any game mode and map.
 * Test Run: You can test your weapons you have on stationary targets.
 * Score Attack: Destroy inflatable balloon targets with your weapons in this whack-a-mole minigame to see if you can get the highest score with your loadout before the timer runs out.
 * Assault Rush: Go inside the shooting room and see how fast you can get out of there by hitting all the targets in that room with your loadout.
 * Training Room: This will teach you the controls of the game.

Local Dual
Exclusive to the Nintendo Switch version, this game mode allows you and your friends to play local multiplayer matches with one screen with up to 2-4 players or through local wireless with up to 2-8 players.

These are the main game modes that are available in Local Dual. Some modes require a certain amount of players in order to be played.


 * Deathmatch (2-8 players)
 * Attack/Defend (6-8 players)
 * King of the Hill (4-8 players)
 * Payload (6-8 players)
 * Hostage (6-8 players)
 * Gold Runners (4-8 players)
 * Boxing (2 players or 4 players)
 * Guns & Weapons (2-8 players)

Item qualities

 *  Regular : Items that are already given to you.
 *  Special : Items that have been bought in the in-game store or received through awards.
 *  Official : Items that are based on third-party properties that were officially licenced or are used on generic items that are associated with said property.
 *  SmartStats : Only applying to weapons, SmartStats items can track the amount of things that happens in a match, such as the amount of kills, damage done, or other things.
 *  Personal : Items that are given to you by Clever as an appreciation for what you did. These items also have SmartStats for weapons and they also sparkle. Personal items carry the player’s username (e.g. MaxAndrew's Shotgun ).

Dominate Coins
Dominate Coins are the in-game currency for Dominate that can be used to purchase items and other stuff in the in-game store, such as cosmetics, emotes, reskins of weapons, weapon skins, weapon accessories like silencers, and SmartStats clocks and microchips.

Dominate Gold
Dominate Gold is a subscription service launched in 14 April 2022 that allows players to access golden weapons with SmartStats+ (an enhancement of SmartStats that tracks everything you do in a match and can be compared to the online leaderboards), golden cosmetics, exclusive items, discounts, and free Dominate Coins per month. It costs 5000 Dominate Coins for a monthly membership or 100000 Dominate Coins for a yearly membership. Players can get access to Dominate Gold as part of Central+ (formally Clever Games Plus).

Release
The game was first released for on the  and  on, , and the Clever Games Player in 6 July 2021.

A port of the game was eventually released on October 2021, featuring a local multiplayer mode named Local Dual, motion controls for certain weapons, and HD rumble support.

A version of the game was announced in 12 August 2022 and was made available on Central (formally the Clever Games Player) in 15 October 2022.

Post-launch
The game has received countless content updates since launch to include new maps, game modes, weapons, cosmetics, and other items.

The game featured many crossover events introducing reskins of weapons, cosmetics, and emotes from their respective series, starting with the anime and then video games like, , , and.

In 31 October 2022, to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of The Foodpocalypse, a major update was released including new weapons from the game like the Pumpershot, the Weakness Potion, and the Hot Torch, and new maps based on locations from the game and featured certain food zombies as enemies.

Trivia

 * The game takes place in the same universe as The Foodpocalypse does, with it being officially referred to as the “Dominate/Foodpocalypse Shared Universe”.