Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era

Description

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a turn-based strategy game developed by Unfrozen and published by Hooded Horse and Ubisoft for Windows. An installment in the Heroes of Might and Magic series, it contains mechanics, role-playing elements and features not widely presented the series; in addition to a single-player mode, the game supports multiplayer, co-op, and a map editor. A demo version of the game was published on Steam on October 9, 2025. It was released in early access on April 30, 2026.

The gameplay is similar to the previous games in the series; the player controls a number of heroes with unique abilities, buying an army of mythological creatures and soldiers with available resources. The player also controls one or more of six town types present in the game: Temple, Necropolis, Grove, Dungeon, Hive and Schism, the last of which was revealed on August 21, 2025. The player can slowly build up the town, growing their army and expanding gameplay possibilities, such as the use of magic by researching spells or enacting faction laws – innovational mechanic for the series, which provides unique for each faction bonuses for a special currency.

The gameplay is divided into two parts: tactical overland exploration and a turn-based combat system. The heroes controlled by the player gather experience by fighting with monsters and enemy heroes using their army, respectively increasing their level when the sufficient amount of experience is collected. With each level, heroes are offered to choose between three different secondary skills and four subskills, which provide additional bonuses to the chosen secondary skill; each skill is aimed at enhancing hero’s abilities in battle, magic casting or general interactions, such as increasing gold income per turn. Each hero also possesses four main attributes that are increased with each level: attack, defence, spellpower and knowledge – typical for Heroes of Might and Magic series.

The player can choose between four available game modes – “Arena”, a quick battle between two heroes, “Classic”, a randomly generated world where many heroes can be hired, “Single-Hero”, where the player is limited to only one hero, and “Scenario”, featuring hand-made maps with their own plot.