Games like Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
If Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is your kind of game, the closest matches are Old World, ENDLESS™ Legend 2 and Imperialist — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep gameplay, immersive and nostalgic. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a turn-based fantasy strategy game with RPG elements developed by Unfrozen and published by Hooded Horse. Players command armies and wield spells across a campaign mode featuring multiple factions with unique units and abilities, managing hero character progression alongside base-building and army-management systems. Reviewers describe the experience as immersive and nostalgic, highlighting deep strategic combat and addictive one-more-turn gameplay that makes time fly. Players also note it brings back the classic HoMM3 experience fans have wanted for 25 years. The game supports local multiplayer and runs as playable on Steam Deck. Currently priced at $29.99 USD with a planned 2026 release, it holds an 89% positive rating from 17,936 Steam reviews.
About 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.
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Old World
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Shares an immersive mood with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Top pick for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?
ENDLESS™ Legend 2
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Shares faction politics, base building, atmospheric and an immersive mood with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Second-strongest match for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Lead your people to victory on an ever-evolving world in this strategy game featuring asymmetric factions led by powerful heroes. Build your empire, wield political influence, and raise grand armies to wage war in a race to uncover dark secrets buried within the planet.
Imperialist
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Third-strongest match for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Early Access with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Can you exploit the New World to control the Old? Lead your nation over five centuries of history in this 4X Strategy game. Build production chains, manage logistics, grow your Empire, and outmanoeuvre rivals diplomatically or on the battlefield, to become history's first Superpower.
Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
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Shares faction politics, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Ranked #4 for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
ZEPHON
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Shares an immersive mood with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Ranked #5 for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
From the developers of Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, ZEPHON is a post-apocalyptic 4X strategy game built on Proxy’s unique tactical combat system. Guide survivors through a turbulent future, navigating unexpected disasters, eldritch horror and cyberpunk monstrosities. What will you do to survive?
Sid Meier's Civilization VII
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Ranked #6 for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
The award-winning strategy game franchise returns with a revolutionary new chapter. Sid Meier's Civilization® VII empowers you to build the greatest empire the world has ever known!
Songs of Silence
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Shares faction politics, procedural generation and an immersive mood with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Ranked #7 for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Lead armies, rebuild fallen kingdoms, and rise to greatness! Embark on an epic journey of strategy in a visually stunning world. Fight intense battles and uncover a captivating story.
Demise of Nations
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Ranked #8 for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
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Songs of Conquest
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Shares magic system, tactical combat and a nostalgic mood with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Raise mighty armies, wield ancient magic and forge an empire. This turn-based strategy adventure game fuses strategic decision making, tactical combat and kingdom management.
Heroes of Science and Fiction
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Shares base building and turn based combat with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
A turn-based sci-fi strategy that combines exploration and exciting clashes on the battlefield. Take control over several different species, raise powerful armies for your heroes and destroy your opponents! This HoMM-like is set in a scifi universe, with new mechanics on top of the classic formula.
King's Bounty II
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Shares tactical combat, faction politics and an immersive mood with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Legend returns! King’s Bounty II is the long-awaited sequel to the legendary King’s Bounty video games franchise, one of the most iconic representatives of the turn-based RPG genre.
Last Heroes 3
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Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Enjoy another classic 16-bit RPG from Warfare Studios of Vagrant Hearts, Ashes of Immortality and Valiant fame, and embark on a quest with Amelia and Roland as they make new friends, experience dreams, and discover their destiny.
Paper Sorcerer
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Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Paper Sorcerer is a stylish single player turn based RPG focused on strategy, party-building, and environmental puzzles. Fight with the skills and spells you've learned in a battle system that emphasizes strategy over grinding. Assemble a party of monsters and dark creatures to fight alongside you.
Heroes of a Broken Land
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Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
A Broken Land, shattered by the Wizards of old, the Fragments of the Old World are adrift in the Void. You must visit and restore each Fragment of the Void, only then can the World be rebuilt. However you are trapped in a crystal body, unable to act alone. Heroes of a Broken Land is a turn-based, dungeon crawling, town management RPG.
A Bastard's Tale
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Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play.
A game about parrying, attacking, and overcoming difficult foes
Aeon of Sands - The Trail
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Reviewers of Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Aeon of Sands – The Trail is a roleplaying game set in a post-apocalyptic desert world. It combines real-time exploration gameplay with classic gamebooks where you create your very own non-linear story adventure.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~67% under Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
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Priced ~53% under Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~67% under Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
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Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~83% under Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~77% under Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and RPG with Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era.
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Frequently asked about Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
- Does Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era run on Steam Deck?
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era cost?
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era are Old World, ENDLESS™ Legend 2, Imperialist.
- Who developed Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era?
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era was developed by Unfrozen and published by Hooded Horse.
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