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For fans of the heroes of might and magic I highly recommend trying "The horn of the abyss".

It is a community developed HOMAM3 extension pack, that is being enhanced and has, IMO, many new features while being fully compatible with the game spirit. And they fixed a ton of UI pain points. Coming with a very powerful map editor means that there are community created maps (up to "giant size" -- two steps larger than extra large) that take weeks of challenging play time to conquer.

Pair that with a full HOMAM3 version from "good old games" for about $10 and you will have an unlimited play, no registration, no licensing classic, valid forever. My 2c.

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I was surprised at how well the community of HOMM3 players is doing. The expansion has support for online ladder play and people are quite active there.

HOMAM3 was my favorite game during grad school times (sharing top spot with Civilizations 1-3) 30 years ago.

Those computers and disks were long gone, but 3 years ago I found it on GOG, looked up some online maps, found HotA expansion and we are now playing that a couple of hours a week with my wife after work.

If someone told me that a few years ago I would laugh. The game does have a staying appeal.

Hot seat co-op comp stomp is some of the best conversational computer gaming around.

It’s turn based so there’s no real world time urgency, only one person is actually “doing” anything at a time, so the others can lounge around and talk, and the game is just exceptionally polished (and even balanced with a few tiny house rules like no infinite ball of skeletons).

The addons that stay true to the spirit make it even better.

FAIR WARNING: the online versus play that still is quite active is an entirely different game; you must watch enough to learn what a “break” is and how the online etiquette goes. It’s very interesting because it’s the exact opposite of the favorite strategy of turtling until unstoppable.

and you dont have to use ubisofts uPlay

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