Hero Wars: Alliance vs Dominion Era, the full comparison

The Hero Wars hub has a four-row summary. This page goes much further: platforms, accounts, codes, the features only one game has, which heroes and titans arrive first, how events and server merges work, and our view on which game to pick. Every fact comes from the official help centers, the Alliance Hero Hub or the Dominion Era community feed, with a second source wherever numbers or names are involved.

The big comparison table

Hero level, rank, glyph, artifact and titan figures come from the "General Information About Heroes", "Hero Artifacts" and "All About Titans" articles in each help center, checked on 10 November 2026. Element and feature rows are covered in the sections below.

Two Different Games: Hero Wars Alliance and Hero Wars Dominion Era (Hero Wars Central)

Platforms, accounts and servers

This is the question people search most, and the official answer is clear. The Alliance help center ("What Platforms Can I Play the Game on?") says: you cannot transfer a Dominion Era account to Alliance, or the other way round. The Dominion Era help center ("How to Transfer My Account to Another Platform") adds that progress is tied to the platform where it was created. A Facebook account cannot be opened on hero-wars.com. Installing Alliance with a Dominion account starts a brand new game.

• What is shared: the universe, most hero and titan names, and the core upgrade systems (skins, glyphs, artifacts, titans, pets). The skins, glyphs and artifacts guide shows where even those differ.
• What is not shared: progress, purchases, VIP, guilds, servers, codes, events and the release calendar.
• Alliance on PC: yes. The Alliance help center lists a web version for desktop browsers, and the Hero Hub links to it at hero-wars-alliance.com. That is still Alliance, not Dominion Era.
• Dominion Era on a phone: the help center says it launches in most mobile browsers, but stable performance is not guaranteed and a PC or laptop is recommended.

Store names also confuse people. The Hero Hub's App Store link uses the slug "hero-wars-alliance-fantasy", while the title shown in the store changes by country: "Hero Wars: Alliance Adventure" in the US, "Hero Wars: Alliance RPG" in the UK. Google Play shows "Hero Wars: Alliance RPG Legend". All are the same Nexters app. Inside each game you can still run several characters on different servers. Alliance lets you create a new character on another server or move one, and the first transfer is free.

Even the birthdays differ. Dominion Era celebrated Hero Wars turning 10 on 23 March 2026. Alliance held its own 10th anniversary stream on 5 November 2026, during the Mighty Roots Season.

Codes vs gift links

Free rewards work differently, and mixing them up is the most common reason a "code doesn't work". Alliance uses typed promo codes posted on the Hero Hub and Telegram. Its help center even gives new players a one-time code, GETSTARTED, which works 24 hours after registration. Dominion Era mostly uses gift links in community posts that you open while logged in. Its help center adds one more catch: typed promo codes can only be entered in the hero-wars.com version, never on Facebook. An Alliance code does nothing in Dominion Era, and a Dominion link does nothing in the app. Our Hero Wars promo codes page keeps the two lists apart, with expiry dates.

Features only Alliance has

The Realm. Alliance's biggest exclusive is a city-builder layer that opens at team level 40, confirmed by both the help center and the Hero Hub's Realm guide. You produce food, wood, stone and iron, upgrade the Hall of Heroes, train troops, fight on a World Map and summon the Realm hero Leonel. The help center notes the mode is still in development.

Research Center and Technologies. The Research Center unlocks after all Realm adventures and Hall of Heroes level 9. Its Heroes, Tactical Classes and Combat Classes trees raise stats for all heroes, in every game mode. A second research queue becomes available as an offer at Hall of Heroes 13. This makes the Realm matter even if you only care about hero fights.

Glory Pass. A battle pass that first ran on 17 to 24 September 2026. Its free track pays gold and Rune Stones, Epic adds more Rune Stones and Energy, and Legendary adds Rune Spheres and Bottled Energy. Relics and Class Runes are Alliance hero upgrades as well: Relics add new skills, and Class Runes power up a passive shared by a whole hero class.

Features only Dominion Era has

Distortion. Dominion Era's official post of 11 August 2026 introduced a new titan element with a new Elemental Cycle, a new Spirit Totem and a planned roster of five titans. Distortion beats Light and Dark but loses to Fire, Water and Earth, as the Dominion help center confirms. Alecto and Valdur with Echo came first in August, and Orm followed as a Distortion support titan in October. Alliance's sixth element is Elarite instead, according to its help center, and it even has titans Dominion lacks: Pallant and the supertitan Metida.

Totem Fusion. Released on 30 July 2025, it lets each titan totem hold three skills: the basic one, an active Elemental skill and a passive Primordial skill, rolled with Elemental and Primal Catalysts. Players at team level 65 and up got Catalysts in the tutorial. Our titans guide explains how totems fit into titan teams.

Ascension and Ascension Seasons. Dominion heroes ascend through the Ascension Spire after Asgard unlocks. Since September 2026, Ascension Seasons have added two new skills to one veteran hero at a time. Gifts of Dominion are items that promote a hero to the next rank. The new 28-day cycle started on 2 November 2026: Week 1 starts the Season and a pre-order, Week 2 brings a major themed event, Week 3 the main Adventure and Week 4 an Ascension Adventure. Hero and titan cycles alternate, and the cycle starting 30 November features a titan.

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Release order, events and server merges

The two games share a roster but not a calendar. New characters often reach one game months before the other:

Events. Alliance runs 28-day Seasons with Hero's Way and a Season Pass, and the help center says other passes usually last seven days alongside event groups. Dominion Era now also uses 28-day cycles, but built around one new hero or titan, as shown in our events guide. Server merges. Alliance merged servers on 27 September 2026. Accounts moved automatically, Grand Arena reset, all guilds started Guild War in the Qualifying League, and Realm positions were randomized. Dominion merged in waves: the first, announced for 16 August, was postponed and ran around 22 August 2026, and the next was scheduled for 14 to 16 October. If you had characters on two merging servers, you picked one to keep, and the others were deleted with emerald compensation. Players on affected servers also got a free Transfer Ticket so they could leave before the merge. Guild War progress was reset there as well, which our guild war guide covers.

Which one should you play?

• You play on your phone: Alliance. Dominion Era runs in mobile browsers, but Nexters itself does not guarantee stable performance there.
• You want base building and troops: Alliance, because the Realm and Technologies exist only there.
• You like deep titan and hero theorycrafting: Dominion Era, with Distortion, Totem Fusion, Ascension and higher caps (level 130 heroes and titans).
• You want a predictable schedule: both now run 28-day seasons. Dominion's cycle is built around one new character, and Alliance's around weekly event groups.
• You collect free rewards: both are generous. Alliance uses codes, Dominion uses gift links; see the codes page.

Playing both, or switching

Nothing stops you from running both games, but treat them as two separate accounts in every way. Guides, tier lists and team videos are usually made for one version, and creators often put "Alliance" or "Dominion Era" in the title. If a guide quotes a level 130 hero, a red Absolute artifact or a Distortion titan, it is about Dominion Era. If it mentions the Realm, Leonel, Relics or Class Runes, it is about Alliance. The same goes for purchases: VIP and paid passes are bought per character, and the Alliance help center notes that a pass belongs only to the character you bought it for. If you switch games, you start again at team level 1, so a switch is easiest early, before you have built a guild and a titan roster.

Whichever you pick, start with the best heroes for beginners and the current tier list, and remember that guides must match your version. The Outland and Tower guide marks the version differences too.

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