Includes Heroes of Might & Magic II and its expansion The Price of Loyalty.
Lord Ironfist is dead and the Kingdom is plunged into a vicious civil war by his feuding sons. At stake is the ultimate prize: control of the land and succession of the royal throne. Will you support the villainous usurper...
Includes Heroes of Might & Magic II and its expansion The Price of Loyalty.
Lord Ironfist is dead and the Kingdom is plunged into a vicious civil war by his feuding sons. At stake is the ultimate prize: control of the land and succession of the royal throne. Will you support the villainous usurper and lead the armies of evil or be loyal to the righteous prince and deliver the people from tyranny.
Chose your allegiance and take what is rightfully Yours!
Outstanding Value: Hours and hours of gameplay. Over 100 different maps and scenarios to play.
Easy to Use: The unique gameplay allows everyone to play at their own pace. Easy to learn, and challenging to master.
Beautiful Graphics: Exquisite animations and graphics bring the game to life.
Multi-player Fun: Play with your friends and family, up to 6 people, using 'hot-seat' or an Internet connection.
We make games live forever! Since 2008 we enhance good old games ourselves, to guarantee convenience and compatibility with modern systems. Even if the original developers of the game do not support it anymore.
This game will work on current and future most popular Windows PC configurations. DRM-free.
This is the best version of this game you can buy on any PC platform.
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What improvements we made to this game:
Update (24 July 2025)
Fixed an issue where CD music and opera tracks wouldn’t play on modern systems in the Windows English version of the game.
Cleared out old registry entries to avoid conflicts and cleanup leftovers.
Force removed outdated Windows Shims from previous Heroes of Might and Magic II Windows versions for better stability.
Stability validated.
Fully compatible with Windows 10 and 11.
Update (8 November 2019)
Added Polish version.
Update (27 May 2019)
Fixed music track selection not working in DOS launcher.
Update (21 March 2019)
[WIN] Added Cloud Saves functionality.
Update (27 July 2015)
We have added the German version of Heroes of Might and Magic 2: Gold. A big "Thank you!" goes out to Rungen for the German version of the game.
The DOS Music selector patch has been incorporated into the main installers for all three languages. After updating via GOG Galaxy or installing from the offline GOG installers, you will see a "Music selector" item in your Start menu just under the shortcut for the main game.
The Windows version of the patch remains the same.
While I bought the original game and the expansion back in the 90s, I had all kinds of trouble with them on Windows 7. Since this is my favourite game, and I have a mind to replay the campaigns every five year or so, this was rather annoying.
Enter the GoG version, packed with a preconfigured DOSBox and a kind of CD image, and tested on various platforms. All the troubles are gone, and the game works as good as it did back in '96.
I generally don't like re-buying games, but in this case, the money was well worth it. Thanks to the GoG team!
This game is freakin' awesome and I still remember playing this hours apon hours back in the day! This is one of those games where hard difficulty is acctually hard! Love it! Nostalgia trip. Highly reccomended!
I love Might & Magic and Heroes of Might & Magic franchise. I grew up with these, so there's definite nostalgia there.. but they are just plain great games too, no matter what perspective you look them at.
Heroes 2 is just up to par there with Heroes 3 as the best game of the franchise in my opinion. What's different about them? Well HOMM 3 has more different alignments with more units, more bonuses, generally more everything -- and it's at least as well balanced as HOMM 2.
Both have good music, but HOMM 2 takes the win in my opinion slightly. Music in the series is just plain great, as is in Might & Magic VI - VIII. Steve Baca, Rob King and Paul Romero (correct?) were heck of a composer team for the music, that really cranks up the atmosphere.
On the other hand, HOMM 3 graphics fail slightly. Themes are good as in part two, but they look bit too bland and oiled up (sprites, menus). While in HOMM 2 lower detail graphics look more colorful and alive. There's some cool little things in HOMM 2 balance that I do prefer over the third.
For example, in HOMM 2 you cannot swap artifacts between heroes thus preventing you to create overly powered superheroes (which will be born anyway in XL maps, just not in so great extent on HOMM2). You also cannot drop artifacts, which makes you think more wisely, which artifacts to pick up so you're not loading crappy ones to the max and then not be able to pick up the best ones later in the game.
There's also some negative artifacts giving downsides, and if you pick one up you cannot drop it off. It's sort of a cool feature, though adds some random element to the balance, but also makes you memorize which artifacts did what (when you see them laying on the world map). On the other hand, HOMM 2 expansion's Ghosts boiled the game balance a bit being overly powered.
I give both HOMM 2 and 3 thumbs up through the roof and call it even!
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If you look for the best HOMM-game: that is HOMM 3.
This is a bit simpler - but still very much fun.
The GOG-version works like a charm :-)
And the game has a MUCH better soundtrack than HOMM3 ... these opera-style music in some castles is really a highlight - and makes you feal heroic... enjoy!
