Huge, long campaign with great replayability
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“A deceptively deep game well worth the money and time.”
Steam review · 3833.8 h played ↗
Eador. Masters of the Broken World
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 67%Mixed · 67%Snowbird Games2013Turn-Based Strategy · Strategy · RPG
The verdict
A deep, very long HoMM/Civ-style turn-based 4X with RPG heroes and strong tactical combat, but it's crash-prone and repetitive. Skip it if you hate bugs or restarting each map.
Great for
Patient turn-based strategy fans who love HoMM, hero leveling and hundreds of hours of campaign
Main risk
Frequent crashes and corrupted saves, plus a repetitive campaign where every shard restarts from scratch
What players love
Humor, story and atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“Fun dialogues with the gremlin who constantly cracks jokes.”
Steam review · translated · 228.5 h played ↗
Exploration, random events and karma choices
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“the karma system: your dialog choices, units, spells, and buildings all influence how good or evil you are”
Steam review · 2491.9 h played ↗
Deep tactical combat and hero/unit progression
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“The tactical combat is easily the best part of the game.”
Steam review · 64.1 h played ↗
Addictive 'one more turn' strategy blend
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“WARNING - ADDICTIVE + ONE MORE TURN SYNDROM”
Steam review · 375.7 h played ↗
Fan patches make it playable and stable
Mentioned in ~1 in 21 positive reviews
“The unofficial "Fixers vanilla patch" fixes a lot of bugs and adds optional QoL settings such as combat animation speed slider.”
Steam review · 333.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Frequent crashes and game-breaking bugs
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews
“the infamous "access violation" error message will randomly pop up, forcing you to restart the game”
Steam review · 123 h played ↗
Repetitive, grindy campaign that resets every shard
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“It's just extremely extremely extremely repetitive. For every new shard, play with a brand new hero.”
Steam review · 22.9 h played ↗
Poor balance and punishing difficulty
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Waaaaaaaaay too hard to start.”
Steam review · 61.5 h played ↗
Clunky UI and weak 3D remake versus Genesis
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Why they changed the interface is completely unclear.”
Steam review · translated · 1.4 h played ↗
Cheating AI and unreliable battle estimates
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“the AI just spawns unfathomable amounts of high power troops that you can simply not handle. Not even on the *easiest* difficulty settings.”
Steam review · 180.6 h played ↗
Multiplayer and dev support are dead
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“Multiplayer support no longer functions and the email address for customer support is invalid.”
Steam review · 74.9 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown2 GB
Minimum
OSMicrosoft® Windows® XP SP2 / Vista / 7
ProcessorIntel® Pentium 2,0 GHz/AMD 2000+
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce 7300/Radeon 9200
Storage2 GB HD space
Recommended
OSMicrosoft® Windows® XP SP2 / Vista / 7
ProcessorIntel® Core 2 Duo 1.6/AMD 3000+
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce 8800/Radeon X1900
Storage4 GB HD space
OSMicrosoft® Windows® XP SP2 / Vista / 7
ProcessorIntel® Pentium 2,0 GHz/AMD 2000+
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsGeForce 7300/Radeon 9200
Storage2 GB HD space
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