Play Heroes of Might and Magic II: Gold Online

Game Overview

Heroes of Might and Magic II: Gold is one of those games that just sticks with you—even years later, I can still hum the tavern music. You start off picking a side in this messy royal feud, and suddenly you're knee-deep in turn-based battles, scouting fog-covered maps, and desperately trying to remember if griffins or hydras were the better mid-game unit.

The Gold edition bundles the original and its expansion, so there's a ridiculous amount of content. One minute you're carefully building up your castle's mage guild, the next you're sending a lone hero on a suicide mission to grab that suspiciously unguarded treasure. The pixel art has aged beautifully, and the combat—with rows of creatures clashing in that side-view battlefield—feels surprisingly tense for something so chess-like.

Fair warning: losing a high-level hero to a pack of wandering vampires hurts way more than it should. But that's part of the charm.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".