Posted on: September 18, 2025
dropsmegamega
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Has potential but isn't quite there yet
A very interesting and addictive game, with a great core system that mixes ideas from Master of Magic and HoMM, but sadly it lacks the polish and creativity that made games like HoMM 3 so endlessly fun. Having finished the Cult of Storms campaign, I can say I enjoyed a lot the first half of the game, but around the middle your hero gets ridiculously overpowered while your enemies seem to get infinite troop resources to the point the best (and only) strategy is simply to beeline to the enemies’ main hero and punch it to death so their whole faction dies. And basically all maps play like this at that point. Another issue that prevents it from reaching HoMM3 levels of greatness is how similar the factions are. Despite the game having a bunch of different races, they all share a lot of the same units, and most of the truly unique ones are locked behind late-game buildings that you only really get to use in the later maps, which ironically don’t feel that important either, since you’ll mostly be relying on overpowered heroes at that point. Add to this the fact that the different campaigns share many maps, and there isn’t much reason to play the other campaign paths. The maps themselves are mostly fine, but could have used more variety, at times I felt like the few maps that tried anything different were copy pasted ideas of the HoMM campaigns. Also, the AI really sucks. In most battles, if you let the auto-resolve handle things, you’ll lose way more units than necessary, spellcasting units waste their mana on nothing and units die without doing anything useful. So you’re basically forced to play out every single fight manually, even the easy ones, just to avoid dumb losses. That gets extremely annoying, especially on big maps where enemies will summon endless hordes if you try a turtle approach. Overall this game shows lots of potential, but it feels like it needed more time in the oven.
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