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Heroes of Might and Magic® 2: Gold

Great game, bad installer

The game itself is great, easily 5 stars. What is really inconvenient is the installer that is provided in the form of a Windows executable. You need either Windows or Wine to extract the game data. Once you have the data, you don't need Windows/Wine anymore. The installer just installs DOSbox anyway. You can use either your own DOSbox/DOS VM to use the provided game engine or you can use the great engine called fheroes2 (https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2). It seems silly to me and I would prefer if I could just download the game data from GOG directly as a zip/tar without going through the Windows installer.

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