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Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2)

Scrap ยท 53 0.1 h played, 1 crash

Open in Walnut Games on your PS3

The 1996 turn-based fantasy strategy game: lead heroes across the map, build castles and fight tactical battles, played with fheroes2 from your own copy.

Genre
strategy
Theme
fantasy
Players
single player
Input
supports gamepad (partial) made for keyboard and mouse
View
2D top-down
Needs
your own game data

Rating

Scrap: too slow (4.7 fps).

AspectScore (of 100)What was measured
Frame rate (22) 0/100 median 5 fps, 1% low 4
Smoothness (18) 0/100 4.5 s of stutter a minute, longest frame 6015 ms
Sound (12) 98/100 0.4 audible sound dropouts a minute
Picture (12) 100/100 nothing wrong found
Stability (12) 55/100 1 crash, 0 unclean quits in 0.1 h of play (provisional: under 1 h)
Controls (10) 100/100 1 of 1 tested checks pass (designed for keyboard and mouse: the gamepad only makes the badge)
Display (6) 75/100 fullscreen 1920x1080; a desktop mouse pointer over the game -10; text 14 px high at 1080p -15
Features (5) 100/100 1 of 1 tested checks pass
Load (3) 98/100 16 s to the game's first screen (the level load not measured: no play mark or no input log)

Rated from 1 session, 5 minutes of play on fheroes2 1.1.17+dfsg-1 (Walnut 0.1). Details

Screenshots

As rendered on the PS3.

Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) on the PS3 Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) on the PS3

Installation

In Walnut Games, the desktop app: Install. The game data is not part of the package: Guides says how to get it.

Or from a terminal, from Walnut's apt repository:

sudo apt install fheroes2

Known issues

  • The game hung in the only session so far: about five minutes in, on the adventure map, the window stopped answering while the main thread was still in its loop and the kernel log showed no GPU error. It was killed for a core dump. It is not known yet whether it repeats; todo.toml has the investigation.
  • Nobody has tried a battle, saving and loading or the gamepad in a played session yet.

The game's home page: https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2. License: GPL-2.0-or-later engine (fheroes2), commercial game data.