10 Best Games like Heroes of Might & Magic | 2023 Edition

Could you rank these 10 games 1 to 10? I really want to test someones

The closest gameplay I got to Homm3 was really Eador, but not Imperium, Genesis with the New Horizons mod. Easily the deepest and the most difficult/immersing amongst the bunch, if you're willing to put in the time to learn. Warning though, the Campaign Mode can get very repetitive, so play the first for the tutorial, a couple more to see if you like it, then go straight to single player. Also, Imperium is very laggy and lacks visual clarity, while Genesis interface is really clean (although graphics are pixel-art-ish).

Well. While I agree in general. I sort of differ on the details
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I am playing a fan patch of Disciples 2 (Rise of the Mod) and also prefer HOMM 3 above most of the games here. Though I do quite like Liberation and Songs of Conquest is good now and likely to be fantastic on release.

No way is liberation better than Disciples 3 reincarnation.

+1 for Urtuk. Love that game

Age of wonders 4 exists now.

I can't believe you didn't add the classic Sega Gen/Megadrive dark fantasy RPG 'Wiz 'N Liz!' That game is literally a Might & Magic clone without being a blatant ripoff.
I mean the intense story and the RPG mechanics crammed into a Gen/MegaDrive cart is mind blowing. The last time I truly got completely lost in a an active game world was the Witcher III

Great list. Think I’ll get Songs of Conquest. Personally I love HOMM 4. Does that make me odd?

Sooo homm3 it is then, thanks all i ever needed and all my computers ever were able to run ;-)

age of wonders 4 comes may 2nd 2023

Age of Wonders FTW!

I would say Total War Warhammer 3 is pretty similar to Heroes. Even though it has giant real time battles, the world map features are very similar. You also travel a high fantasy world with a darker spin, conquer cities, build them, upgrade your army and heroes/lords, have special events, quests, equipment, spells, other skills, and other RPG mechanics. You have all the fantasy factions you can find in Heroes as well. Also, Heroes V design is much inspired by Warhammer.

I know a lot of people who play Heroes 3 have that feeling of it being one of those games that hits every sweet spot just right, and no other game can truly live up to the bar of expectations that it set for them. Right?

For me, Age of Wonders 3 is that game.

Thanks

Blasphemy!!!
Nothing can replace Heroes of Might & Magic!

But thanks for several projects that I didn't notice.

Disciples2 was great ❤

Disciples II is equal to homm3

no game will ever be better than H3 !!and starcraft brodwar!! they can try but still nothing compares with H3!!

Eador: Genesis with the New Horizons mod is great, enjoyed it more than the newer realeases, highly recommended.

Expeditions Conquistador is very reminiscent of HoMM3.

I just want an exact copy of HOMM3 but with Lord of The Rings creatures, terrain, castles, heroes etc.. But in exact same HOMM3 format/texture etc.
- like a mod for HOMM3.

Kings Bounty 2 is quite nice and have some fresh mechanics

The eador games are for free at GOG right now. Masters is the predecessor of Imperium and bug ridden, but has a way longer campaign.

I don't want games like HOMM. HOMM III is still the best one.

what you said about Disciples 3 is 100% true! it's like... the most beautiful artstyle and music and the WORST gameplay of the series 😑😑

As a genre fan I'll drop some comments on each game here
AoW3: Pretty good game. It has some 4x elements and emphasis on single units rather than stacks. Has more depth than any Heroes game. AI is kinda weak tho.
Spellforce Eo: No idea haven't played. Might check it out later. Looks more like an AoW clone rather than Heroes.
Wartales: Mercanary management game that is on early access. You have a small mercanary band and have to feed them,pay them etc.. It's shaping up to be a pretty good game but isn't anything like Heroes other than turn based combat, and it has no place on this list.
Urtuk: No idea haven't played. Will add to wishlist to check it out.
Songs of Conquest: Very Heroes like game. The units you make give you different colored mana and you cast your spells according to that. Also not enough variance in units and you can't recruit from other races. Limited character progression. I found it very boring and shallow tbh.
Endless Legend: Another 4x game like AoW. Combat takes place on world map. Interface and innovative systems might feel overwhelming at first. NO LAN which is the biggest turn-off. Also many dlcs. If it had LAN, it would be very good game.
Kings Bounty: Heroes clone that focuses on main character and campaign. Empire management and town development is much more limited. Overall not a very good game.
AoW Planetfall: Very good AoW game that takes place in space. You can install mods on your units to adapt to your opposition. Great game in my opinion. Combat is tactical. If you are ok with sci-fi, I recommend.
Eador Imperium: Didn't play Imperium but used to play Genesis. It's like Heroes but it has much more depth. Reason I didn't play Imperium is the crashes and animations are very slow and clunky. Might provide some entertainment still.
Disciples Lib: Tried to get into it, but it wasn't that fun for me. Combat mechanics are kinda slow and redundant. Maybe there is something on later stages of the game but at this point it's more of a campaign game like King's Bounty. You can't just start a random game like Heroes or AoW or most others on the list.

Age of Wonders 4 is coming. It's looking pretty good. Everyone go check it out!

Nothing can replace Heroes of might and magic III... Im playing this game for decades

Disciples 2 is far better game than Disciples Liberation.
Just a few negatives of Disciples Liberation:
- Boring long battles- i hope you enjoy waiting when enemy Has 11 units...
- No quick battle, no option to make battles faster (200% is still to slow). There fd "quick battle" option, but only for minor battles, and ofcourse not for all of them...
- Technically you can build all units, BUT you don't have enough space, not enough gold, or not enough reputation to freely experiment.
- Shitty game economy - you can but every single one of the resorsues, BUT you can't sell anything for gold. You always have surplus of all resources beside gold, which is most needed one.
- Shitty random equipment for main character. Every piece of armor od only stats boost- nothing more, you find hundrets of equipment through out the games, and you can't even sell this trash for gold...
- Main character- unlikeable wh*re who wants bang everything that can move and have at least one hole...
- Bad dialogue, and missing voice lines
- Hexagon grid- and again mighty Dragon has shitty compressed model, just so it can fit one hex... Is it that hard to make the field consist of squares?
so that small units occupy 1 square and large units 4?
Developers could make a game based on the best installment (Disciples 2) , but they decided to make the game base of the worst (Disciples 3)
That's why my version of "Disciples: Liberation" is a pirate one- very easy to find and download. Don't give them your money. they had a chance to make a great game, and they fuc*ed it up...

The truth that there's no games like HoMM just because HoMM is not about tactics, strategy and other things 4x strategy games about it's just about building chains of heroes for transferring the units. That's why "Songs of Conquest" is a fail it's consist from things which AoW fans hate in HoMM and has nothing what HoMM fans really appreciate. And SoC gives very few stacks for the units from the start to use the standart and the only HoMM tactic of using single-unit stacks for taking the damage and saving the main army.

AoW 3 economic is based on taking a rewards from clearing the treasure sites, so I've no idea how there can be no money until you have too big army which requres to much upkeep.

"Conquest of Eo" is a hybrid between AoW 3 (simplified tactical combat mechanics) and MoM but for now it looks empty.

"Endless Legend" is more like Civilization and it's combat system sucks.

"King's Bounty" is not a strategy because there's no resourse collection and producing units. It's RPG with tactical combats with similar to HoMM stack system but if fact it's very different. And there was 5 games in the seria. They're all separate games which can have their own DLCs. the 3rd game "Crossroads" incorporates the 2nd whcih is much better than the 1rd. The last 2 games created not by Katauri were pices of shit.

AoW Planetfall with all DLCs has 8 playable races and 7 minor.

"Eador Imperium" is very buggy. But previous game has it's fans. In fact I've no idea how far it's known it was developed by a single Russian programmer. Well at least he did better tactical combat than the whole Disciples 3 team. For me it's too slow.

Disciples Liberation is not a strategy too. It's RPG.

Wartales IIRC is a wargame not a strategy.

Disciples Liberation problems: Still. No. Mountain Clans.
Same problem with Disciples III Reincarnation.

The gameplay actually not really a problem. A bit different. Some works for me, others don't.

Disciples 3 was fixed in all ways possible. But, if I remember correctly, last version wasn't released internationally

Age of Wonders 3 with expansions is legit a 10/10 game

Heroes of Might & Magic 7 are good !

In Age of Wonders I start building in all my towns at turn one and I have no problem building anything till the end of the game. Thing is not to build useless stuff.
Necromancers have issue with money but they have tons of magic and can steamroll anybody.
If you want money play dwarves or rogue or cats or theorat.
Description that money is short in AOW is just not true.

Endless Legend is criminally underrated.

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Wow. The new spellforce looks great.

Dunno about other games, but I would say that Endless Legend is not like HoMM really, it's more like Civ. Wonderful game tho, the best civ builder imo, great OST too.
Favorite game like HoMM would be Disciples 2 Gold tho.

No turn-based strategy is better than Heroes III.

Hmmm. Why there isnt on the list the war of magic? Maybe u missed it/ you dont know the game.

Can't agree about Disciples 3 - Reincarnation. The initial release and 1st big update were a huge let down and sadly they killed the game, but the last release just before the studio went bankrupt/closed was quite good - if this was the initial release, i'm sure it was going to be a hit and we're going to wait/play Disciples 4 atm....

LMAO SongOfConquest is miles better than anything you put above.

Disciple is sad case for fan.

a testament to how bad Heroes 4 was

King's bounty might get a little annoying with grinding but It's such a wonderful game. Designs for locations and units are lovely, and despite a bit humorous approach worldbuilding and plot are actually pretty interesting. Mostly recommend playing the oldest version though(The Legend) cause there you can really feel the fairytail road from local knight trainee to princess-saving dragon-slaying hero. Most of expansions are... kind of half-grassed. Armored princess is pretty good too.

THE MODS FOR planetfall that let you destroy planet israel and its people are amazing

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