Songs of Conquest

**THE GOOD:** - *Great* music that never feels like it's playing on loop and never gets old! - Pixel graphics that are very well done and with great attention to detail. - Each faction has its own songs and visual assets, giving them each a very unique *artistic* feel. - I liked how the campaigns were structured to give you the origin story of each faction. Each faction seems reasonable and sympathetic (even the undead!) when you're fighting *for* them--perhaps less so when fighting against them. - You can have the AI fight for you if you're tired of doing it. **THE BAD:** - The campaign scenarios are generally well-written and designed. However, several missions involve enemy wielders appearing out of nowhere with giant armies. I found this very frustrating, since I was often out-of-position and it feels quite unfair for armies to just *appear*. This effect can be especially difficult when you're facing multiple factions in a giant map. - Each faction works more-or-less exactly the same way. There is a bit of varation with the top-level troops, but it doesn't amount to much difference. The game could have offered more variety and replay value in this regard. - The spells are the same for each faction. I think the game would have been more interesting if each faction (or at least wielder) had their own magic specialty. **THE UGLY:** - The game crashed once but was otherwise stable. Since I set the game to auto-save every turn I didn't lose any play time. - I didn't encounter any bugs. - There were some minor usability issues in the strategic map. For example, there was a part in the very last mission where an obstruction could be removed if and only if you moved your wielder next to it. My wielder was trapped for a long time in there without me realizing I could *do* that. This was poor affordance.

Game is unexpectedly polished for early access. In my 8 hours of gameplay I did experience only some slowing of game after severa hours of gameplay. Also only bugs experienced I encountered are grafical glitches. There are some design decisions I do not like ( magic ) but other than it seems this game is worthy successor to the HOMAN series. If we get some more units / factions and random map generator this will be game that is very woth of its price

hey hey people

much appreciated cause at the moment I don't have a pc and as a long time HOMM3 fan, this hits the spot.

If you're a fan of the earlier entries in the HoMM series, this is everything you could want from the genre. The changes that stand out most are the way your towns are modular and expand on the map, and the spellbook no longer being left to random chance. The former ends up meaning that you can focus a settlement on producing more of what you need for your playstyle while foregoing options that don't fit, and that a weaker army can still harass a fortified settlement by pillaging whatever has been built around it. The latter means that your use of magic ends up being more of a strategic choice based on what units you decide to focus on, since the points you have to cast spells are generated by the units in your army.