Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The story, told through text and mission narration rather than shown on screen, turns on a king's assassination, a war of conquest, and necromancers reviving the dead as liches.
Turn-based fantasy battles where armies of creatures attack one another on a hex grid; defeated units play a brief stylized animation and vanish, with no blood, wounds, or gore.
Playable factions are themed around necromancy — raising the dead, liches, vampires — and around demons and devils from a hellish realm, with summoning and undead imagery rendered in a fantasy frame.
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What it is
Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD Edition is a remastered version of a 1999 turn-based fantasy strategy game. The player leads heroes who explore a map, gather resources, develop towns, and command armies of mythical creatures — knights, wizards, dragons, demons, undead, and more — in tactical battles fought on a hexagonal grid. Combat is bloodless and highly stylized: units trade attacks and cast spells, and defeated stacks disappear rather than showing injury. The single-player campaigns tell a war story through text and voiced briefings, involving a king's assassination, invasions, and necromancy, but nothing violent is depicted graphically. There is no sexual content, profanity, substances, or monetization; the HD Edition has no in-app purchases and no in-game chat. One of the game's eight factions, Inferno, is built around demons and includes summoning creatures via demonic-looking gates.
How it's framed
The game frames its conflict as a high-fantasy struggle between kingdoms, with clearly delineated 'good' and 'evil' town alignments and a heroic quest to reunite a ravaged homeland. Violence is abstracted into strategic army battles with no consequence shown beyond units vanishing, and darker elements such as necromancy and demonic factions are presented as fantasy powers players can command rather than as real-world subject matter.
Details
- Developer
- Dotemu
- Publisher
- Ubisoft Entertainment
- Released
- Jan 28, 2015
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