Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2)

Game: Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars (DOS, 1996)

fheroes2: a from-scratch recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine that uses the original game’s resources without modifying any of its files. It reproduces the game without changing its balance, and adds high resolutions, a rewritten AI that makes better decisions without the original’s hidden advantages (seeing the whole map or getting extra weekly creatures), many fixes, and interface improvements: more information on creatures and spells, instant or restartable battles, rebindable hotkeys, and more, listed on a page of its documentation. Both The Succession Wars and The Price of Loyalty campaigns are playable, and it has hot-seat games, a battle-only mode, a random map generator, and its own map editor. It’s translated into more than 20 languages and doesn’t load the original game’s saves. There are builds for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and for Android, PS Vita, and Switch too. Version 1.0.0 came out on December 21, 2022 and the latest, 1.1.17, on June 30, with a first version of automatic map playtesting in the editor and AI improvements. If you don’t own the game, the Windows installer and a bundled script offer to download the free English demo from archive.org and use its resources; this is optional.

You needThe files from your own copy of Heroes of Might and Magic II (the ANIM, DATA, MAPS, and MUSIC folders), from GOG or the Ubisoft Store for example; its bundled scripts find and extract them from an installation, and innoextract can pull them from the GOG installer. The free demo works too. Plus Windows (32- or 64-bit), macOS (the released build is for Intel; on Apple silicon, via Homebrew, MacPorts, or building from source), or Linux (x86-64 or ARM64, also on Flatpak, AUR, Homebrew, or as Debian and Ubuntu packages).

How it gets to PC

Fan reimplementation

Console

MS-DOS

Original studio

New World Computing

Year

1996

Author

ihhub

Stars

3.7k

Last activity

2026-10-27 · 4 days ago

Latest version

1.1.17 · 2026-06-30

License

GPL-2.0

Language

C++