Hailing from the hot bed (literally) of gaming development, Austin, Texas based Tandem Games has recently launched a new browser based free-to-play MMO titles Domain of Heroes.  Latching on to the growing trend of ‘play it anywhere’ browser based games, Domain of Heroes is designed to be played at work (think alt/tab and/or minimize), school, or home.

Self described as a simple enough to play while working, yet deep and story-driven enough to captivate the most hardcore RPG fans, Domain of Heroes is aimed at appealing to a wide range of gaming fans.  The title is a text based game, therefore making it more like a choose your own adventure, ever evolving book, rather than a video game.  What?  No rich, stunning 3d graphics you say?  While it’s true, you’re not going to get any 3D blood flying by at a high frame rate, I personally think that’s what makes it a great game to play in the background while at work, or even while playing other games.

What’s quite interesting to note about Domain of Heroes is the community interaction.  Tandem Games has taken a massive step forward in listening to their customers by quickly integrating features and game play as suggested by the community.

“We have a program called Community Heroes where the community proposes ideas on the forums and those get filtered by other players and then added to the game quickly,” said Aaron Murray, Technical Director and co-founder of Tandem Games. “Over half of the game has come directly from ideas from the Beta players, and the next big updates are ideas from the community as well.”

A simple 2 minute signup process is all that’s needed to enter the world of Dohria and being playing Domain of Heroes.  Players have the choice of creating a character from 30 different races and 27 classes.  There are 150 skills to master as players explore the massive world of Dohria.  While solo play was quite enjoyable, pvp battles in a text based MMO while riding the subway home from work was really quite fun.  Since it’s playable in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers, I was able to accesses the game via my iPhone and experienced equally fun gameplay on both laptop and iPhone.  This free-to-play MMO features guild creating features along with aforementioned pvp battles.

Domain of Heroes is free-to-play, and Tandem Games is seeking to monetize the title via microtransactions.  Currently, the game supports player character customization via an in-game currency called “Wishes”.  Each player starts off with 2 complimentary “Wishes”, usually spending the first on a mule (the ability to carry more loot), and the second to create a custom name for your character (the default name enters you as Newbxxxx).  Additional wishes are available for purchase at $0.99 each, or a bundled option is available pricing some wishes as low as $0.49/wish.

Domain of Heroes is currently open to the public, and as mentioned works in almost every popular browser client (IE, FF, Safari, and Opera).  Sign up and give it a whirl at www.domainofheroes.com.