Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a strategy game that combines empire building, turn-based tactical combat, and RPG elements. Players can follow a narrative campaign or play on procedurally generated and hand-crafted maps, constructing cities, recruiting heroes, and building armies drawn from six factions, including the Temple, Grove, Dungeon, and Necropolis, each offering distinct units and playstyles.

On the strategic map, players manage a single starting town before expanding to capture additional settlements, each of which can be developed to produce specific resources or military support. Heroes lead armies across the map, gaining experience, skills, and spells while collecting artifacts that affect combat performance. Movement is limited by movement points, requiring players to make decisions about exploration, resource gathering, and confronting guarded landmarks.

Combat takes place in turn-based tactical battles featuring more than a hundred unique heroes and a wide range of units, from footsoldiers to mythical creatures such as hydras and phoenixes. Battles incorporate a Focus resource, earned through dealing or receiving damage, which can be spent on unique unit abilities such as healing, teleportation, or summoning. The game includes four schools of magic, unit upgrade systems through city buildings, and support for solo campaigns, skirmishes against AI, and multiplayer modes, along with an in-game map editor for creating custom scenarios.