The game is multiplayer-oriented and competitive in nature, though it also features a single-player mode against CPU commanded characters.

The game's servers were not yet launched thus not allowing preorder customers to have online play as originally intended.

[6] In response, Stardock activated all pre-orders a day early from the planned release after returning to work on Monday April 13, 2009.

[8] Review website 1UP.com summarized much of the negative and angered criticism the game received with the following quote: "If you're interested in throwing down cash for a beta and maybe getting in some practice before things get smoothed out, go ahead and bump that score up a letter grade.

[10] IGN's Jason Ocampo gave the game a 7.5/10 citing bad multiplayer netcoding and stating "you'd best wait a while for the developers to get things working before you dive into Demigod".