Songs of Conquest

Beautifully designed "fast paced" turn based strategy game with immaculate attention to detail. Pixel art that feels alive and dimensional, well developed/intelligent AI, gameplay that is easy to pick up and start playing but great depth. 100+ hours of play time in early access and I still can't get enough!

Incredibly badly balanced. Barely out of the tutorial missions in campaign 1 on medium difficulty, defeated enemies keep respawning every 2 turns with full strength, the enemy I'm supposed to beat sits in a corner of the map and with a level 20 hero and several stacks of the best unit I can make, fully upgraded, and a bunch of support I can't even touch it. Units generally lack basic abilities like delaying their turn or defending, the battlefield is often crowded to the point where it's hard to see which unit is where. The battlefields are extremely similar to each other, there's a unit with wings that's animated as flying that can't actually fly and the list goes on. The story so far is: you're a ruthless feudal lord crushing a rebellion of vassals backed by some undead mystery enemy. There are 200 fantasy names thrown at you per conversation of which there are two types: "I'm with the enemy, let's fight" or "I stand with you, here's some troops". So far resource management has been pretty much unnecessary, you get so much stuff you can just do anything. Graphics are neat, controls are okay, the town management is mostly enjoyable (aside from how you can't sell more than one building in the same turn for some reason), rally points are a very nice quality of life feature. I don't recommend this game. It's been built competently but the design itself is weak, probably didn't see much playtesting.

If you've been getting blue balled by the lack of quaality from more recent HoMM games then this is the game for you. My only compaint is that i would like a few more factions, but the amount of content in the game is well worth the price. if you can get it on sale , its a steal

This game is like Heroes of Might and Magic II-III, except... it's not. What I mean it's that SoC it's not a clone, you have your heroes traveling across a map, collecting artefacts, acquiring mines, fighting enemies, but from graphics to the mechanic - the games is different. Which is good. If you love heroes, but you want to try something new, play Songs of Conquest. If you want to play Heroes... just play Heroes. Works very well on M1 MacBook Air.

This game and hype around it clearly shows how much hunger it is there for classic fantasy turn based strategy games (hello Ubisoft! anybody there??). Gameplay is good and "just one more turn" syndrome is very strong here. Heroes of Might and Magic inspiration (in my opinion it is more like Heroes I A Strategic Quest or Heroes II The Succession Wars rather universally acclaimed third part) is obvious. Mechanics are a bit different (limit of the troops numbers similar to King's Bounty) and unique spell casting system make a game unique entry rather being just HoMM carbon copy. It is just an early access and game needs more polishing and re-balancing to be done. I don't want to jinx it, but so far so good... Good job Lavapotion.