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I still spend inordinate amounts of time playing Heroes 3. It’s been a strong procrastination feeder over the decades, but it also gave me a lot of fun!

I mostly play HotA in HD Mod these days, but I had used VCMI on Android (with SoD). It’s been a bit rough – the client-server thing that it does would have connection issues, the mechanics differed in subtle ways, etc. But I’m also super grateful that it exists.

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Same here. Heroes 3 with HD Mod, but without HotA addiotions.

Tons of fun - usually I start a XXL map with 5 computers, I play Kyrre from Rampart and rush to find first the Dragon Utopia get Town Portal/Dimension door and hunt them down the map.

The campaigns are fun, some of the custom maps are absolutely amazing, but there's nothing quite like a classic old compstomp.

Try Songs of Conquest. It captures the original feel 100% for me, and is a game I really enjoy.

is this a mod over HD ?

It's an early access HOMM-like game: https://www.songsofconquest.com/faq#faq-overview

It's got some real potential, here's hoping they actually finish it as I've been burnt on Early Access before.

Isn't it already extremely playable? I've been playing it on and off, though I don't know if half the campaign is missing.

> It’s been a strong procrastination feeder over the decades, but it also gave me a lot of fun!

I remember buying some random Sega Genesis game that had the same effect on everyone I loaned it to, even a couple years after Playstation came out. Nobody was immune and, even after I showed them the tricks to winning, it only got worse.

Then I saw my baby brother playing the Heroes Playstation 2 port and I realized it's the exact same game, but was called King's Bounty on Genesis.

King's Bounty was its own game which preceeded Heroes 1

Btw there's a King's Bounty 2 out now that was released in 2021. My dad picked it up recently, he enjoyed it a lot. Combat is the same party-building/grid-based tactics, but rest of the game is much more of a linear/semi-open world RPG compared to Heroes

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