Songs of Conquest

The old feeling of classic Might and Magic with a fun little world and enjoyable art. 1.0 is a great product for its price point and future DLC with their factions and roadmap are very promising.

I've never played HoMM or any strategy game like this before. Songs of Conquest is a completely new genre and I wasn't sure what I would get out of this. The overworld map is beautiful with its pixel art style. You find resources and build up your claimed settlements with them. The battle grid system is easy enough to control and the campaign gently introduces combat with some basic beginners battles. However as time goes on you see how the game has a lot of complexity hidden beneath the surface of its battles. It takes some time to understand how the stacks and your wielders essence magic work, but when things start to click things really pop off.

I enjoyed the campaign of Songs of Conquest so far. Im not a strategy game player 4X stuff like CIV bores me. This isn't boring, the battles are fun to do and the world map is interesting to explore. The complexity hiding beneath with the essence magic stuff makes it fun to find new ways to use spells. I like that the devs seem to be engaged with the community like with the community poll for DLC price. Thats cool, and makes me feel like my dollars went going towards good devs.

A beautiful HoMM-like with some of it's own changes to the formula?

Yes please.

Familiar enough to understand what makes these games work, different enough to justify not just playing HoMM again. Perfect.

If you're a fan of the old HoMM games, this will be a treat.

Remarkable, nostalgic and yet original tribute to legendary heroes of might and magic 3 game

Really scratches that HoMM3 itch with some different factions, campaigns, UI, etc.

Great for hot seat co-op while doing other things like chores or painting

It's good. like might & magic and other games.
But you should buy it is because your character jingles whenever they walk.
Like a sleigh with bells.
It's the small things.

Doesn't look too good, metagame is not too deep. Unless it's 50% off and you are a big fan of HOMM-like games, I think it's not worth getting.

Still working my way through all of the first campaign but I am loving it. Cannot wait to see how this games progresses and what expansions come out.

It's basically Heroes III with gamepad support, morn ease of life tweaks and beautiful shiny art paying beautiful homage to the series, what else would you want ?

Simply put, the gameplay initially seems interesting.
The problem however is mainly with the UI.
Normally I would never rate down a game purely on the UI but here it is extremely bad.
The main issue with the UI is that you have absolutely no clue what is strong vs what.
Sometimes I oneshot an entire group of units, sometimes I can't even kill an individual unit.
Nothing properly indicates WHY this happens, only that it will or will not happen.
You can't see what their total health is, how much damage they deal, what kind of unit it is (ranged, melee, support).
This goes for both your own stats as the opponents.
The "danger" rating doesn't mean anything either, I've curbstomped 'challenging' opponents while getting absolutely ground into the dust myself by merely 'risky' even though 'challenging' is supposed to be harder and has way more units.

If you play this game, find a wiki and follow a couple dozen guides before trying so you don't get as frustrated as me.
The game unfortunately fails on a fun experience for me.

i like it a lot but not yet balanced which is anoying on higher dificulties. ill wait for some updates before playing it again

Great game. Feels like a mini HoMM3. Interesting mechanics, story is decent, pixel art is great.

I can't recommend this game enough, although for you die-hard boys that thing you can play everything on hard, you'll have to tone it down at first. This game randomly wants to r*pe you like a brutal SC2 campaign.

I really wanted to enjoy this game but ultimatly what i realized was that the reason why i wanted that, was because of the pixel art (which is great).

In terms of gameplay it falls behind Heroes of might and magic 3. The changes introduced to the formula don´t bring any joy to the gameplay and uterlly was a failed experiment in that regard.

Played a couple of sessions, potential is definitely there but needs more content. I also didn't liked any nation that much to be honest, hopefully they will rebalance it and make them more distinct and unique in the future.

When I first saw Songs of Conquest I thought that this game similar to HoMM. But I was wrong and it's not a bad thing since the game is very fun and exciting anyway.

Gameplay-wise SoC is more similar to King's Bounty with a few ideas that remind me of Warlords series. Art and music are superb and it's obvious from the trailer. Magic system is interesting and I like it more than one from HoMM since it encourages you to experiment with different unit combinations. Town building part feels too simple and a little bit tedious at the beginning but I've got used to it very soon. The only thing I really lack is more units since the roster is not very big at the moment.

PS: thanks for the high quality Ukrainian localization. I enjoyed it a lot.

Wanted this to be the successor to HOMM2 and HOMM3. It's not. Maybe it wasn't setting out to be. Though I don't think this game gets the power fantasy element that these games are supposed to provide. It's supposed to be fun to wipe the floor against other heroes. But when your entire army can be wiped out by a hero 10 levels lower than you, destroying entire stacks with a single spell, then the game is no longer fun, and has fallen in to tedium. Normal difficulty should not be a slog to min-max army composition.

Devs: Realize that for the player, we must invest dozens of turns (and real time) to generate an army capable of combat, then realize that it's no fun to then see that army ripped to shreds in seconds. "Git gud" is not the answer to this. Balance is.

Not fussed if the game is better or more balanced in Multiplayer; that's not why I play these games.

Presentation and music are great. Atmosphere is top-notch. Balance (both spells and AI) need a lot of work.

Pixel graphics are probably the worst part of this game, but if you are able to look beyond the graphics this little gem pack quite the punch. At first glance this looks like a basic clone of HoM&M, but the game mechanics are deeper than they looks with a very well balanced economy, troop features and an interesting magic system that depends on troop activity and difference types of magic essence. Campaigns are quite enjoyable and the game can present a challenge. Oh, almost forgot, race diversity in the game is done well with an actual diversity that will affect your battle strategy.
One Grumpy Russian score 8/10 – I find it hard to be grumpy at this game and I only wish it had normal graphics!

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Really enjoy the game, a faster paced HOMM with a few intuitive improvements around map travel/combat. Keen to see additional factions and monsters!

Yeah, this rules.

It's Might & Magic with some good old-school RTS writing, and the central gimmick (each campaign is a song being performed in a tavern) should be kind of lame but the musicianship absolutely sells it.

Songs Of Conquest isn't breaking any new ground in the genre, but it nails its fundamentals, it's pretty to look at, and its soundtrack is dang good even if it's subdued most of the time.

As of the time of my writing, I'm about a quarter of the way into the game, and I suspect the whole thing will be about 20 hours long. Progression carries over between missions in each campaign, and there's a LOT of custom content depending on where you explore on each map, but the campaigns are all four *big* missions each, so you're not going to get softlocked if you underlevel your hero and rush each map.

The learning curve is a little bumpy---battles are either trivial or impossible based on the difference in forces---but it's easy to start building strategies around this and I haven't as a novice at this type of game felt like I needed to play on a lower difficulty than normal.

All in all, i'm sincerely impressed with Songs Of Conquest. It feels like a gem of the 90s, thrown forward in time, and I'm stoked to experience the rest of it.

Basically an updated take on Heroes of Might and Magic series. I'm really enjoying the gameplay loop, the graphics music etc. It's all top notch

I wouldn't say it's a successor to HoMM3 (H3). It absolutely feels similar to it, but doesn't quite have the same pull.
For starters it doesn't feel like there is enough content, The spell list is short, there aren't that many different units, a lot of abilities are shared across different factions which makes them feel less unique, the items are boring stat increases for the most part.

The campaign is 16 missions across 4 campaigns, which can take a while to finish on the hardest difficulty, yet the story, while fine, seems not fully told with bits feeling missing. The campaign feels too easy on anything outside of the hardest difficulty, but on it can feel unfair in some scenarios. Mostly, you will win by outmaneuvering of the AI on the map, taking their towns as soon as they exit them.

The game does introduce some new mechanics, some of which try to address some problems of H3. For example, spellcasting is tied to units which generate different types of mana. Which means both your might and magic are tied to your army size - you can't usually cast your best spells early on, but have to build towards them each turn, and getting less mana as your units die. Splitting units in H3 is tedious but is often optimal. You can still do that here, but because of the above mechanic picking them off will make you lose mana, but also give your opponent a permanent buff for each stack of units destroyed. This makes splitting both rewarding and risky which is a fairly satisfying take on it.

Ultimately, some nice ideas, but too pricey and not enough variety in content.

Songs of Conquest is a brilliant HOMMlike game, which manages to introduce new elements, while retaining what made the Heroes of Might and Magic series so enjoyable. In terms of what's different, I love how having to decide which buildings to construct in your cities (as there simply isn't room for all of them) adds a layer of strategy to the game, as well as the spellcasting system based on various essences. The only downside so far is that the difficulty level seems to vary wildly from one game mode to another and you really need to have your unit types and troop numbers straight, because battle outcome forecasts can be wildly misleading depending on whether the opposing force is occupying a fortified position or the enemy spellcaster's level.

This game does justice to a successor of Heroes of Might and Magic 3 without losing the gameplay value that I felt was lost due to the 3d graphiccs in Heroes 4/5/6. This is a solid and worthy sequel that I am enjoying quite a lot!

It's pretty good turn based strategy game overall.
+Awesome pixel art graphics, both modern and old-school vibe at same time, very successful.
+Great musics on both campaign and battle modes indeed. Truly making you getting inside and they're not repetitive and boring. It's very rare to see to find this quality of work today..
+Long replayability with skirmish mode with many mods and settings. Game is very chilling also can be very challanging, you can choose what you want.
+Campaign is fine, very challenging on high difficulties. Nightmare at max difficulty if you seeking a true challange.

Only con i see is lack of races. There should be 4 more races at least. Only 4 races making game feel dull and unfinished bit. Expansion can be brilliant for this, if devs open to go for it ofc.

Afterall it's pretty good. Worth to spend time.

Really wanted to like it, tried both campaign and skirmish, but frankly I just find the fundamentals of the gameplay loop quite boring, and the combat very uninteresting.

Sit back and enjoy a nostaligic trip to Heroes of Might and Magic 3 only better and you can use a CONTROLLER PEOPLE!!! Just amazing well done work. Hours of fun they have a workshop with new maps already installed. Amazing all over.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Our game of the year, especially when you have someone to play with.
It supports both online and good old hotseat, and brings me and my partner back to the late night evenings of playing turns while doing the dishes.
This is to us what the later Homm games should have been but never where, an honorable successor with a good splash of own character.
Multiplayer balance is surprisingly good already, only thing still missing is a few more races to play.

10 out of 10 for us, as it hits all the right spots.
This is a gem that will continue to develop, it can only get better!

The visuals are great, but that's really the only thing that this game has going. The balance is completely off. A couple of spells can wipe out your entire army. Some units are overpowered. Also there is a large amount of randomness that is simply not fun: you can be exploring the map and then an uberpowered enemy you can't see just comes and wipes off your main character, failing your mission. The writing is also quite terrible, at least for the first campaign. Very very cliché and uninspired. Really disappointing

I feel a bit bad giving this a negative review. There are a lot of good things about this game. It's a decent Heroes of Might and Magic / Age of Wonders clone. But for me, the graphics are too pixelated. It's hard to see what's going on on the world map. To me, pixel art should be easier to figure out that high res. Some others have pointed out this same problem. In my case, I started missing HOMM.

This game has a nice old-school athmosphere / visuals and an interresting story told from multiple perspectives. However, something is off with the AI. On moderate difficulty, everything is super easy and actually rather boring. On high difficulty, trash mobs are balanced pretty well, but as soon as the first enemy hero appears, you start playing a cat and mouse game for hours on end until you're finally strong enough to face him. 7/10

Great art style, nostalgic gameplay reminiscent of HOMM 3: SOD

The game is great! The campaigns that I have tried are a little sub-par, but the conquest mode against the AI or with your friends is S-tier. The over world strategy is thought provoking and changes per map, faction, and wielder. It rewards you for pushing for difficult encounters to get better loot and locations. The individual battle combat is tactical and very satisfying. I bought it on sale because I don't play expensive games, but the game is very good and I would highly recommend it. Even better if you have friends to play it with.

i have never understand the appeal for turn based games, but after playing this, I see now why people like this type of games, not only the art is amazing but also the music is fantastic. The gameplay its wonderful, I love how the tutorial teaches you step by step. Over all its a Great game:steamhappy:

Worthy alternative to Heroes of Might and Magic. It has a wide variety of maps to explore, a decent campaign with good variety and slowly increasing difficulty.
Even the random map generator is present! It's not a remake, the AI is better and the spellcasting system is complex and the way it works is new to me. Easy to understand, yet hard to master as a good game should be. And best of all, it seems already finished without any big flaws in need of dire patches (as is the standard these days). Everything seems to work as intended, a worthy mention and kudos to the makers for this.
Pro: complex spellcasting system, good battle grids, lots of stuff to do both single player and online (whatever floats your boat) decent variety of creatures
Con: graphs are ok, it could do with an HD upgrade, but with these type of games that's a minor negative. It can do with some more variety of creatures (i'm looking at you expansion, give us what we want)
Well recommended if you like turn based strategy games with city building. The likes of civ, homm, king's bounty 1.

I've only finished the first of the four story campaigns, but I'm really enjoying it so far. It's scratching my Heroes of Might & Magic itch, and you'll pick up on this quick if you're a fan of those. That's likely the target audience.

heroes of might and magic vibe , really fun ( I enjoy more escarmouche / the no campaing maps ) feel like a sandbox conquest, funnier imo )

I purchased this game after hearing about it online & seeing a YouTube video of the devs playing it with all the ideas they had for it. It was VERY early on in the process. I've attempted to play the game the way they claim it was intended to be played but it's just not something that can be done. DETAILED REVIEW ahead:

Let me make some things clear: This is a game that is supposed to be where you move your character (A magical wielder) around the map, gathering resources as you go, getting items, powerups, & even claiming a town in order to use to recruit troops. Along the way you will encounter fights & some people will join you or fight you depending on the story. You'll pretty much select join every time so having a "choice" is an illusion. Also most of the power ups you get from clicking on things are temporary so they are worthless. Only the town economy matters, upgrades matter, & troop size matter.

You can have 3 wielders at a time & there are as of now 4 races. (A DLC is coming for a 5th). This is where the game SHOULD shine. You expect a Brood War kind of balance between the races where each one has abilities that the other doesn't have & during the fight you use your unique set of skills & the battlefield terrain (Think the board game Titan if you're old enough) to win the day. However, this never happens. Every race makes use of the same abilities as all magic is powered from "essence" & all races use the same essence. All races essentially have tank units, range units, & support units. Due to this the battles are basically broken down between where you position your units, & when you cast your spells (& remember, you're using the SAME spells). Whereas the Faey race should have "nature" spells & the Risen/Undead race should have "necromancy" one would think.

Even playing on the 2nd lowest difficulty & having the biggest army, all my towns maxed out, all my upgrades maxed out - by the 3rd level of each campaign I am SLAUGHTERED by the normal Wielder just walking around. After many trial & errors I've learned that just auto-battling will always yield a superior result. So I sit around building my forces for a few hours, maxing them out before taking on the enemy. You'd think that a FULL POWER you should be able to beat the enemy, but no. They lose 2-5 troops & you lose 30-50 in each & I have 9 troop slots to their 6-8. So I'm not only stronger, have better equipment, but have superior numbers... & auto battle destroys me, & manual battle is way worse. If auto battle kills 50 troops, I'll manage 10. In no way shape or form can I ever come close to what auto battle does.

So what is this game? Basically you walk around clicking on things that don't affect the outcome, while slowly building a town(s), until a final confrontation, & then you auto battle many times leveling up (with MINOR customization of your character during this - but you're normally going to pick troop size until you're maxed), & then once you get to the final confrontation you'll auto battle again & die at some point. Maybe it's stage 3, maybe it's 4, maybe it's 1 depending on difficultly, luck, or skill. However, chances are unless you have happened to figure a magical combination out that no one else has - you will never beat this game. There is a multiplayer but what's the point of running around racing to auto battle each other? Shouldn't there be more than just RNG involved in the game? Shouldn't there be strategy of SOME SORT?! And the DLC is only adding more maps & characters & not fixing any of the issues. So what EXACTLY IS IT THAT YOU'RE DOING? A whole lot of clicking. That's what.

Now for the positives: The devs do seem to care. They ask your opinions on things. They WANT to know how hard a map is or what price the DLC should be, but here is the thing... despite us telling them, the DLC should have came with the game because it isn't much of anything - I doubt they do that. Despite us telling them to fix the difficulty - they haven't patched it. I've been waiting too long for fixes that never come. As of now this game is going to sit on the shelf & MAYBE in a few years I'll come back to it & see if they made a workable battle system, but that would require reprogramming the entire game & I doubt that.

You've been warned if you purchase this.