Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete

There are a lot of vocal idiots in this review section. Here are the facts: The game installs on Windows 10 just fine. This is the "Complete" version, and includes the expansions that Ubisoft lost in their "HD remaster" I have installed this game several times, on several of my computers, and I have never once been asked for a key. The game is available via GoG's Galaxy installer, contrary to what another reviewer has stated. If you aren't running a black-market communist block CPU or some weird nonsense like that, you should be able to buy with confidence.

Tldr: A great game, with beautiful graphics and nice game play, flaws in the AI are annoying but the campaigns and better solo maps make up for this. Hot seat is a fun way to spend an evening with a couple of friends (especially if there arn't enough computers). A great game making many improvement upon HOMM2, I fully recommend this game. It is a turn based strategy game where you control castles to gain, then upgrade units. Controlling various mines and other outposts provide benefits ranging from resource income to boosts for heroes. Heroes are used to control armies, and while they don't take part in combat directly, they influence it by casting spells and modifying combat bonuses. My one problem with HOMM in general is the AI, the AI tends to be poor and higher difficulties only provide boosts to resource income for the computer. This results in either overall easily beatable opponents, or very tough early to mid game fights but towards the later middle stages of a game it just becomes repetitive slaughter. However, the campaigns and better solo maps tend to regulate gameplay or add in interesting enough diversion to distract from this. (pet peeve: The humans who have always tended to be the weaker race (and required more tactics and numbers) have been slightly overpowered with the addition of the Angels.)

Franchement indémodable. 20 Ans plus tard on y revient avec autant de plaisir. Tout va dans ce jeu, une campagne complète, des extensions qui apportent vraiment du contenu, un éditeur de map et de scenario. Ce jeu a une durée de vie infini. L'époque ou Ubisoft savait faire des jeux. Le 2 est super aussi mais la qualité graphique du 3 est nettement supérieure. Pour la petite anecdote, sur uplay le jeu est en anglais. Les mecs ne sont pas foutus de proposer leur propre jeu en multi langue....c'est d'une tristesse.

I've been coming back to HOMM3 every year and enjoying the game. With an amazing modding community, you can keep playing forever. There are new stuff coming up and planned for the game even today, and just with the existing mods and campaigns you have many thousands of hours of gameplay left with this game. If I were to take a single game with me on a desert island, even though my favourite game is probably Baldur's Gate 2, this would easily be my choice (with Dwarf Fortress a close second). 4.8/5 is too low for this.

If your pc is experiencing 100% CPU and high temps when running this game, download the "HoMM3 HD" addon (Google it) and set Sys.CPU.ReduceUsage to 1 under the Tweaks tab. You're welcome :-)