It can be played in SP, which is more or less MP with bots which follows the same rules as any other game that can be described as "like MP but with bots", especially concerning AI. You play over a series of Arenas to determine who becomes the next god, so your goal is to win the tournament. You don't need to win every arena, it uses a combination of points earned if I remember correctly.

It can.  Although, mp is much better play.  There aren't a lot of ppl left playing tho, so it can take a little bit to get a game going.  

I also play this LAN with usually 2, 3 or 4 friends.  It's really fun that way.  I also like it single-player.

Demigod can be really fun in singleplayer although the AI will never match a human opponent. I'd say its worth it for 6 bucks. Demigod could have been a smash hit if it wasn't for some technical issues with multiplayer at launch.

Indeed.  If you do pick it up for single player, I'm sure you'll get $6 worth of fun out of it.  If you check the demigod forums, there is an AI mod that makes (without cheating) the ai MUCH more intelligent.  The mod is called AI skirmish and I recommend giving it a go.  http://forums.demigodthegame.com/396054

Yeah - hope more people find out about this sale.  Good deals here. 

I don't think you shoud buy A copy; I think you should buy 2 and get a friend to play as well. The connectivity issues aren't bad enough to ruin the game IMHO.... many of the problems are usually because 1 or 2 players have a crappy net provider.

I play games up to 3v3 with pings up to 450. NO PROBLEMS unless there is a player who joins that has slow upload speed or their CPU or graphics card struggle and slows their REFRESH RATE. If one player is lagging due to these issues, then they lag all players in a peer2peer connection Demigod uses.

similar.  Has much better graphics and you there are actually camera control in DG.