King's Bounty: The Legend

$6.99

Release Date:: May 1, 2009
Metacritic:: 79
Developer:: Fulqrum Publishing
Publisher:: Fulqrum Publishing
Platforms:: Windows Mac

Strategy RPG Family Sharing Single-player Steam Cloud

About This Game

King's Bounty: The Legend is an adventure game with tactical turn-based battles and role-playing elements. In a fairy tale fantasy world of fearless knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses the player controls a hero. Leading their character through the game world, exploring it, commanding armies in battle and accomplishing various quests can mean great reward or huge defeats.

Gameplay is divided into two major sections: adventure mode and battle mode. While playing in adventure mode the gamer controls their character in real-time. With several classes available at the start of a new game, the player moves through the adventure map seeking various treasures, fighting monsters and accomplishing quests tasked to him by the local stewards. Once in battle mode the gamer assumes the role of a war chief, leading his troops in tactical turn-based combat. Battles take place on land or sea, in dungeons or castles or even in some items! The hero himself doesn't participate in the combat, but can assist his troops by casting spells or summoning different creatures.

Real-time (adventure) meets turn-based (battles) gameplay
Rich fantasy setting, storyline with a lot of twists and an unexpected ending
Three types of characters to choose from — Each of them with unique characteristics and abilities
Huge game world with dozens locations and battlefields — both on the surface and in the dungeons
The game world isn't static — enemies don't just sit and wait for the hero to arrive, they pursue their own aims and try to get into the player's way
Mac version is available in English, Russian, German, French, Spanish and Italian languages.

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User Reviews

Very Positive

22 user reviews

91%

Positive

User #761346 english

222 hrs at review

Recommended

I enjoy the older RPG. This game has much more options/depth than most.

User #358163 english

30 min at review

Recommended

hear me out : what if you wanted to play an open world game with combat based around the early HoMM games? great news, that game exists, it's this one, and it can be yours for like 7 dollars. not convinced? it goes on sale for like a dollar. pure rpg slavjank (affectionate) served on a platter just for you my lord, at more than affordable prices.

User #124266 english

25 hrs at review

Recommended

nice

User #167966 english

18 hrs at review

Recommended

great series

User #190350 english

85 hrs at review

Not Recommended

I found this game far too frustrating to play, and I tried. The game tells me to explore to find stronger troops, but you need stronger troops to explore. I can't even fully explore the first 4 areas, partially because the strength of creatures you get available is randomized. If you start with certain Bears or Royal Snakes, you might do all right. Don't get those available? Well, good luck. I may be missing something here, but I can't find a way to upgrade troops, so mine die really fast. Just like I said, a frustrating time trying to progress when you can't clear the newbie areas because of lack of troop support.

User #536779 english

153 hrs at review

Recommended

TLDR: It's no HOMM but still a good timekiller for 9 maplebucks If you like the Heroes of Might& Magic style gameplay, this is a decent offering if a little more sluggish due to the map traverse and neck-breaking camera controls. Even at full price it is a decent 20+ hour gaming experience. Translations are a bit rough sometimes, you can have entertaining and colourful tongue-in-cheek interactions in some cases and wildly inappropriate monosyllabic prepositions in others. Information on what some of the modifiers do is sadly lacking (at least in English) so if you are new to this you might scrap your character after a dozen hours of play after you've learned what doesn't work.