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Game Overview

Heroes of Might and Magic on MS-DOS is one of those games that just sticks with you. You pick a hero—maybe the sorceress for her magic or the barbarian for brute force—and suddenly you're knee-deep in managing castles, scouting the map for gold mines, and recruiting weirdly charming pixel-art creatures like griffins and skeletons. The first time I played, I spent way too long just staring at the town screen, trying to decide whether to build a mage guild or train more archers.

Battles happen on this little hex grid where positioning matters way more than you'd think—putting your slow-moving paladins in front while your archers pick off enemies from the back feels oddly satisfying. And the spells? Nothing like dropping a meteor shower on some goblins who thought they had the upper hand. The whole thing has this weirdly addictive loop of "just one more turn" as you uncover new towns or stumble upon a dragon guarding a sweet artifact.

It’s clunky by today’s standards, but there’s something about the mix of exploration, army-building, and those crunchy tactical fights that still holds up. I still hum the castle theme music sometimes.

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