Heroes of Might and Magic® 3: Complete

This game has stood the test of time. It's not only one of the best strategy games of all time, but one of the best games of all time as well. It's aged like a fine wine and competes and edges out many modern day strategy games.

It all started in nineties and for last 20+ years we are still playing this game. My brother is playing, my friends are playing, my colleagues are playing, everyone is playing. Campaign is great, scenarios are good, but real gem is custom maps generated by community. When you start there is years and years of great stories and even greater gameplay. And after you have played all the maps out there you can just start random map generation and play with friends. Can't miss with this one. P.S. Intro is not skippable only first time you start the game. ;)

I lost my copy a couple of years ago. So why not, I bought it again from GOG! There are few games like HoMM3. I don't know what else to say, this game is simply legendary.

One of the best games ever made. Endless replayability. The fact that it's still being actively played by dedicated players after 20 years should tell you enough. Remember about the HD mod!

HOMM3 remains my favorite of the series. It strikes a great balance between strategy and fun play, not making you overthink every move or get too formulaic as in CIV. It should be rated 5 stars. The GOG version of HOMM3 played great until last year. Then an annoying issue arose. The game began forcing me into viewing the intro (which is ridiculously long), which is only supposed to happen the first time you play the game. This might seem like a minor issue. It's not. Imagine sitting around for 3 to 5 minutes, watching the same tired intro every time you boot the game. After a little searching, I discovered many users were griping about this problem It's easily fixable if you're comfortable editing your registry, which not everyone is. But even if you are comfortable fixing the intro problem, you'll need to keep editing your registry, because the values reset constantly, forcing me to watch the freaking intro again and again. Most of the time, when I'm craving a little HOMM3, I end up not playing because I don't want to look up the values that need changing and re-edit the registry. Or I start the game and find something better to do for five minutes, which is probably the best option. I wish someone would create a permanent fix.