Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era unveiled at Gamescon
The game is scheduled to be available in Early Access at Q2 2025. This is like to be struck right from the heaven, as there wasn't slight indication, that new Heroes iteration is in the development. After infamous Heroes VI and VII, the hopes were low.
Please see full Ubisoft annoucement on their blog.
Overall, my collected tidbits:
- The game is supposed to be prequel. Around the same time-space area like Heroes I-III and Might & Magic VI, VII and mostly VIII: Day of the Destroyer.
- The core of the game is supposed to be Multi Player on randomly generated maps. That somewhat create more questions, than it answers.
- Every units are having two types of skills, passive and active. Passive skills are flying, ranged or undead. Active skills are spells and special attacks. These, who played both, or at least one game from Creature Quest or MM:EoC knows how it work.
- You will get three choices, when leveling your hero up.
Unfrozen Studio
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is being developed by Unfrozen Studio. Now I will borrow a bit from their page, to proceed with their introduction, as I believe, that's necessary:
Established in 2016 by industry veterans, Unfrozen comprises team members who have previously worked on popular games such as League of Legends, World of Warcraft, Disco Elysium, Pathologic 2, and Disciples 3. Our first game, Iratus: Lord of the Dead, is widely recognised as the spiritual successor to Darkest Dungeon. It was released in April 2020 for PC and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
By 2024, Unfrozen has expanded to a team of 50 people and has representatives in Limassol, Cyprus; Tarragona, Spain; Guildford, England; Belgrade, Serbia and Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
That sounds good, doesn't it?
They are promising following key features:
- An epic single-player campaign set on the continent of Jadame, where rival factions must unite to face the demonic insectoid swarm known as the Hive.
- 3 multiplayer game modes: Classic (multiple heroes and map exploration), One-Hero mode (only one hero, and their death means defeat), Arena (quick battles with hero upgrades).
- 6 unique factions: Temple, Necropolis, Sylvan, Dungeon, Hive, and a mysterious sixth faction to be revealed later.
- New custom tools for the community: create your own Heroes of Might & Magic single maps and multiplayer templates (coming during Early Access).
- Matchmaking, ratings, and leaderboards for all modes.
Final Questions:
- Big question, who will write the stories?
- And obvioulsy another one, will be the game allowed enough time?
- And infamous one, will it be modding friendly, at least for solo gaming?
- What about an AI?
X - Unfrozen | Discord - Unfrozen | Steam - HoMM: Olden Era | HC | AC
See the comments in forum here.