Hero's Hour

TL;DR This is not a 'wait for it on sale' game. Get it now if you are on the fence. If I were to summarize this game in a short sentence, it would be this: "This game is HOMM 3, but with all the really annoying things from that game streamlined." It's HOMM 3 with all the QOL features you could ask for, with a bright shiny new package, (as of now) TWELVE very unique factions with non-stupid mechanics. Hate having to go from town to town, making a level 5 guild hoping for Town Portal? In this game, it's guaranteed in the first magic upgrade you buy. Hate setting up a conga line of Heroes carting your units after your main hero? Your units can walk the map on their own. Also, unit generating structures automatically have them travel to the closest hero or city. Hate having only space for a small portion of your army? There's not limit to the army you can take with you... (just how much of it you can field at a time) Not sure what the heck a certain artifact you can see on the map does? Just hover over it, or look at the IN GAME WIKI. Detailing Every Hero, Every Ability, Every Artifact, Every Enemy! What does Horde Mean..? Several? Lots? Which of those numbers is bigger!? Well, here, it tells you in plain numbers the range of enemies. 1-5, or 10-50, or 100-500, etc. Also, Tells you how well you would fare vs them. Easy. Moderate. Challenging. Hard. impossible. Never get surprised again! So many features I love: Map Zooming in and out, tons of crazy item set combos to break the game over your knee, fun battle system when you get to see your armies duke it out in real time (which you can pause), SO MUCH MAGIC, cutesy music bleep bloops, cute bright art, much more fair random map generation, difficulty YOU can control in a dozen different options, modding... It's just a TON of gameplay in a very well polished package. I dropped 15 hours in a single weekend when I first bought it. Buy the game.

At first, looks early HoMM clone. The graphics is cute pixel look, turn based map movement as usual.. but the combat is real-time, and way better than HoMM, more like Dominions 1. The only thing I miss is formations. Works perfectly on Mac OS with Porting Kit or Crossover. Chose the 64bit 19.x.x engine.

This brings back memories of King's Bounty (old skool DOS version). I still have my DOS version of KB I play on DOSbox every once in a while. This reminds me of that game quite a bit. Also has a lot of HoMM in it's gameplay. I am not a huge fan of the cheesy 16-bit crap, but the gameplay is pretty solid. The turn based part of the game is almost exactly like KB or HoMM, the combat is fun to watch for a while. Combat is pretty much on autopilot watching all of your pixelated bunnies hop around like mad. Definitely worth the 16$ I paid for hours of entertainment.

A fast-paced and enjoyable HoMaM clone. The battles are real time. There are tons of factions and units. Not insisting to win the tutorial was a good decision, because that match got stuck quickly. I left it there and just enjoyed new games, which were more balanced.

I encountered no bugs so far. Seems they fixed the ones mentioned earlier. Highly addictive game. Good price and very good replayability. I never played the HOMM games before. This game made me like this genre. Highly recommended.