Agreed, Iratus was one of the earlier Darkest Dungeon-alikes, but had some neat ideas of its own that helped carry the theme. Like, you are an undead necromancy guy, you don’t care about your minions, they are disposable commodities, and the game supported that idea in its systems
My only real concern about this game, coming from the last several HOMM games, is that the AI is generally terrible and gets ridiculous cheats.
Basically what happens is they start getting uber stacks of units way earlier than you can. Even if you managed to defeat their main stack, then just a few turns later they will appear with yet another uber stack stronger than the first. The last few HOMM games I have played have all had this mechanic.
I just want a decent AI with no over-the-top cheats like 10x creature growth and the cost of recruiting is free.
You’d think a year of early access would be enough time to balance it, I guess.
Agreed a billion trillion percent. The cheats in HOMM ruined the game for me by 4.
I still play Heroes III to this day. Horn of the Abyss really brought back the magic of the early days playing hotseat games. I play simultaneous turns with my brother online nowadays.
To my knowledge, there’s a HOMM2 mod of some sort for HOTA, but I’ve never really known what it is that people preferred about it. Is it a game mechanics thing? The atmosphere of the art and music? Bit of both?
Art and music is the big factor, but I also preferred the slightly smaller battle grid of HoMM2 as well.
The art was different in a lot of ways, bigger, brighter units, and the opera music just added that extra layer of perfection. The day we bought the Homm2 expansion and discovered that the towns had new opera music is still so vivid in my mind. I think four of the towns had new music? I can’t remember now.
Fair enough! For what it’s worth, I think there’s plenty of wasted space on the 3rd game’s hex grid. And if I’m real honest… I let auto battle run on HOTA much of the time.
Here a longer video showing how it looks and plays
Wow thats the closest thing Ive seen to HoMM 3 in a new game…so much hope they don’t screw it up.
They sure did nail the music.
And the music does a lot of heavy lifting on the charm front.