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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“I'm old (very old...), and not really an avid 'gamer', but this software has revived an old fondness for turn-based games (Dungeon Master on the Atari; yes, I'm that old...). I never play PvP (too dumb for that...); the Single Player mode has more than enough variety and…”
— a player, Steam review · 31 hrs played“I urge you to look past the prejudices you may have towards the artstyle and give Ubisoft the middle finger by buying this actually well-made, visually cohesive, and cared-for game that lives up to the series' golden days instead of funding their life support machinery as they…”
— a player, Steam review · 110 hrs played“Foundation is there for a great game, but the AI, campaign and actual gameplay are pointless. Clearly set for PVP not PVE and against the spirit of the HoMM 7 editions before it. Do not recommend if you are hoping for the long and complex campaigns of HoMM in the past.”
— a player, Steam review · 58 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-09-26. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Patch #14: More PvE Content and Plans for the Future!
Greetings, Heroes! Holiday season and summer may be close to being over, but the news from us aren’t! Together with Ana from Heroes Take Turns , we’re back with another video where we discuss more of
Hotfix: Desynchronization during Restarts
Fixed a bug where restarting a multiplayer game could cause client desynchronization in certain situations.
Hotfix: Save Fixes
Greetings, Heroes! This hotfix addresses an issue due to which some players' save files could not be loaded after the latest patch. In addition, we have fixed several other bugs and issues with templa
Patch #13: The Mysterious Island
Greetings, Heroes! Today, we are excited to present a major patch featuring a massive new single-player map — "The Mysterious Island" ! But that's far from all: we have also substantially overhauled A
Hotfix: Mouse Freeze
Greetings, Heroes! A quick hotfix is here to address a sudden issue that occured after the recent network library update. Changelog v. 0.80.35 Fixed an issue that caused the game to freeze when moving
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | RPG, Strategy, Early Access |
| Player tags | Strategy · RPG · Turn-Based Strategy · Multiplayer · Grand Strategy · Simulation · 4X · Tactical · Turn-Based Tactics · War · Economy · Sandbox (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Achievements | 22 |
| Official site | https://unfrozen.studio |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-10300 (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 3100 (quad-core) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 (4 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 5500 XT (4 GB) / Intel® Arc™ A580 (8 GB) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD required