A Highly Replayable Kingdom Building Might & Magic Styled Strategy RPG - Hero's Hour 

@Splattercatgaming - you are the reason I am broke. You find all these hidden gems and I literally love all of them! I just bought KeeperRL and have already sunk a decent amount of time into that game (loving it by the way). Now I want this. ohhhh my Steam library has never been bigger XD. I appreciate your channel a lot.

"I'm feeling Kreator, so let's hail to the Horde." Mate, there are probably not too many people getting that reference, but it sure made my day. \m/

The little resource carts trundling back to town is a vibe.

Been playing this game for a while. It's definitely a good idea to take up Easy or Moderate fights in the first days to get early level ups, and secure resource production around your town. Even if your army dies, you're unlikely to face the player-enemies in the first week, so you can just rebuild on the next week. A fight labelled as Moderate is one that you'll probably win without any player interference.

Downloading the deluxe edition right now. HoMM3 was one of my favorite games back in the day, this game actually ended up in my ignore list because I thought it was another of the many many many roguelite titles that came out... Thanks for showing me otherwise! Sifting through the pile to find out what's worthwhile!

Great viddy as always. This one looks like it's right up my alley. I already added it to my wishlist.

I was just playing this yesterday, it's loads of fun. You do have to play carefully though, especially on higher difficulties as if you get your army wiped it can be hard to make a comeback, as AI have a lot more resources on harder settings. Granted, there are a few factions that have mechanics that can let them win with practically no army. Pyre Demon gate can pump out infinite free demons every battle so long as you pay huge amounts of sulfer to upgrade it to spawn higher tier demons. I've won entire battles with it alone and no army backup.

Every time you release a video, I absolutely need to buy the game you review. Most of them are pretty much exactly the kind of games I like to play. I'd buy Hero's Hour right now if it weren't for the fact that I already bought Hero's Hour when you reviewed it last time.

Don't know how I haven't seen this, this looks like a slam dunk for me.

Yah this is a great little game. The difficulty is a little rough but its so much fun watching all my little guys run around casting spells and such. So cool.

I highly recommend Songs of Conquest!

This game is just another similar game like heroes of mighty magic and I love it thank you

17:40 You are no longer the King of No Pants.

Here's to hoping The Spiffing Brit digs up some more cheese for this

You just reminded me I have this game. Time to reinstall and check out the updates I havent touched it since it was only on Itch XD

Good review, Imma go play hero's hour

Oh yeeeeahhh....I remember playing this during some Steam demo-fest or whatever years ago. I had forgotten all about it.

4 wolf riders and 13 shiv-a-bish-guys! Amazing.

another rough diamond, looks ace seen you play it on live stream over on Twitch its on my list 👍

This game is great! but kinda easy once you figure it out, can consistently win 1 vs 6(on same team) on max difficulty but now that they added 4 advanced setting to make the AI more difficult it's kinda tricky, doable on big sea maps but kinda impossible on smaller.

this has been my favorite game for a while its pretty damn good and fun

My most replayed game. Listen to a lot of audio book while playing this game.

Graphics are amazing!

I haven’t played this since it first came out… I’ll have to circle back and check out the DLC. It looks like there’s been a lot of updates since I last played it… this studio puts out some great games. I can’t wait to see the final version of Sandwalks.

I'd like a game like this thats just a hero going around going stuff instead of a whole stategy game

Amazing game, incredible value! My one complaint is how you need to press shift once every playthrough to see what the traits on the unit tooltips mean. It’s strange that it’s hidden by default, like I don’t think many players have played enough to know what everything does? And it’s not like the tooltips take up much space on the screen even when expanded. One thing Splat - your hero’s combat stats are not for improving just the hero on the battlefield, it improves all your units damage/health etc. I guess it applies to your hero as well, but if you want a strong fighting hero you it’s the skills Combat, Midas touch that do the big difference

Heroes meets Mage&Monsters

A little tip. Early on always take the extra xp for your hero. There is tons of gear. But a high leveled hero early on makes earything go way better.

I would love to see you cover Siralim Ultimate, though I'm not sure how "featurable" it would be in this format.

I'm glad you mentioned the AI armies. I haven't played in a while but they used to be pretty absurd with the size of the armies the AI would attack with. After a few games I tried doing nothing but collect resources and bulk up my single army with everything I had in my area and the first AI that reached me would still destroy me fairly easily, even after fighting through the gate and me having a castle wall to hide behind. There's not even a kiting strategy like in HoMM because all the units just +w into each other. I've thought about trying it again since they did some major patching, but I don't get a lot of time to waste anymore and it takes a while to get to that point.

I already bought the game but it got beaten by Songs of Conquest 😅

Does this have a similarity to dwarf fortress? Been looking for games similar and definitely this one is under my radar once it releases on switch

It looks luke the game came out for the nes famacon back in day! I love it graphicly!

"Chest hairy as fu-" ....... "Chest hairy as hell" 😭 💀

Wasn't expecting to hear a Dead Island reference there.

Can't get enuff Might & Magic type games!

This video was rad as fuc... All hell.

ThankYou SirSpla77

"I'm gonna be focusing on fielding a lot of guys." Yeah, I bet you will ;)

Love this game

That's how HoMM3 starts looking to me when me and my bud play hotseat while drinking rum all night.

I bought this game because I was such a HOMM2 and 3 fan in the 90s. It's pretty good. Wish the soundtrack were a little better. The battles are a huge free for all, no real "strategy" in it other than let them go and hit each other.

I wish this had a sweet campaign

Got it and is very good!

Wish this game had a campaign :(

Nice dead island reference!

hopefully the gameplay is not as stale as heroes of might and magic

I have problems with the game playing remote, unfortunately. My friend's mouse goes haywire and had too high of a sensitivity.

some of the heroes used to basically get infinite army guys, that has been pulled back a bit. could be kind of frustrating to fight demon armies that only get bigger and bigger during the fight then if they win the hero gets bonus dudes on top of that. I've spent many, many, many hours playing this and enjoyed it a lot. I've tried to go back to older HOMM games and found they don't age great and there's a bit too much RNG on what you get, and there are some HOMM remakes or remasters coming, and of course there are dozens of games trying to replicate HOMM 2 and 3 with modern ideas, but Hero's Hour is totally scratching that itch best for me right now in the slightly crowded scene of games that follow the HOMM2/3 formula. the dev is also pretty straightforward about things so you know what is going on, which is a big plus. I think they're planning on a series of smaller balance and content patches coming up so there will be things that keep you coming back if you think you've "solved" this game. this game is just great. and it's not pricey. if you're young and weren't around for the Heroes of Might and Magic peak years, but you like sort of 4X army games, you'll probably dig this. you can make your game as small or as big as you want so you can choose bite sized games or big expansive ones that take days, so it'll fit either way you like to play. if you have friends who like this type of game I think it goes on heavy discount from time to time so you can get them a copy even cheaper and try out the multiplayer, whether cooperative or competitive. getting two allied armies into one battle to siege a fortress is pretty cool. I'd say this game is a 10/10 for its genre and budget. this is like single A, not AA or AAA, but even against bigger budgeted games in this genre that had flashy kickstarters, this game is still on top.

Seems Fun

Bottleneck, bottleneck, bottleneck! Not stopgap!

Haha I just reinstalled last week when I seen the update. Mentioned on the creators post that I hope you take a look and here you are lol.

Chest-hairy as [edit]

Hour of hero’s yoooooooo

Game got patched not so long ago. More units, animations, artifacts etc. Some gameplay systems got expanded and I also believe the combat AI was enhanced.

Is the Rogue faction new? I don't remember them.

"Hoodoo you Voodoo, bsh" lmfao....great line. Splat, you're a plain genius.

sseth here

too cute for my tastes

This game would be my favourite with multiplayer. Also the "resourcehack" enemies have in endgame is annoying.

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I don't like the auto battling aspect of it, but everything else is spot on

This game would be an instant buy for me if they put it out for Mac so I could play it on my laptop chilling on the couch.

I bought this game after your last coverage. The early game is so much fun and it feels like your actions and army positionings are very impactfull. The late game sucks for me. You and your enemys army is so big, that it will be reinforced 5 times during the battle and it takes forever for fights to end. Positioning doesnt matter and your hero dies so fast that it punishes you. I think they should consider merging units (into groups of 10 100 1000) so the battlefiends are nots clustered af. The lacking end game fun made this game a sore spot for me because I really like the concept.

How do you literally just get handed the entire Kismet set in 10 minutes? You know how hard it is for me to complete even 2/3 part sets in my games? lol

Im here to say i own this game, and i love it. But no multiplayer makes my soul very pouty, depressed for what it could be. It needs a sequel.

I had fun with this game for maybe 10 hrs… but it doesn’t have that thing that keeps me wanting to play again. I actually return to Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 5 more than this one.

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HoMM: Total War

Got here so early the video doesn't even show up in the uploads yet.

At the faction select screen they used to have a brief explanation of the faction, but now you have no idea what each faction is like? Its not a good change

Stopgap does not mean what you think it means.

Might and Magic you say?

This game was fun, but really wish it had some kind of simple story to follow, or campaign even. Nothing outrageous, but so you dont feel like your doing the same battle over and over. Game after game. For the price great deal though.

I think you need to google the phrase "Stop Gap". It does not mean what you think it means.

ma'man

Did they remove the forever respawning of neutral monsters?? It was annoying as F

It looks like Total war warhammer 3 but good.

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Slow day ?

If only it wasn't an auto-battler.

heroes 3 wog anyone

I normally don't comment, however it hurts me that I won't play this game because of it's art style. I'd say upgrade the pixels from 15 pixels to 64 pixels, or perhaps greater, would've improved it, also adding some dynamic lighting and a bit more detailed UI would've gone a long way.

You got hacked?

The auto combat just doesn't do it for me.

I beg of indie devs to please stop with low pixel count art styles when they aping a game that had a lot of pixel detail.

lol that's literally Heroes ripoff but easier and more casual 😅 Heroes 3: Hota (horn of the abyss) still the best above all, a fixed and updated version of classic game with huge online lobby of thousands players, awesome modding community with hundreds of custom maps, and even a money tournaments oh right and it's completely free

FAKEW-BPBCD-AR7K0 EFP63-W44B7-HQEG6 steam keys if anyone wants that

You skipped a mine beginning of your game, it hurts to watch that!

Thumbs up if this video has inspired you to be more creative in your own life!