Godlike is set in an alternate history version of World War II where people known as Talents have developed unexplained powers.

Godlike is a gritty superhero roleplaying game, where wearing spandex and other flashy outfits is a sure way to draw a sniper's bullet that most Talents would not survive.

The Godlike core book contains a detailed section reviewing key events of World War II with special attention paid to events that differed due to the Talents involved in the war.

While it was not called the One-Roll Engine at time of print, Godlike introduces the dice pool rolling system where matching results on dice are formed into sets to help determine the outcome of an action in how successfully and swiftly the action is performed.

The name One-Roll comes from the nature that one roll of the dice determines the initiative, success, location and damage of an action.