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Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2)

Scrap · 53 0.1 h played, 1 crash

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

All test runs

Session of 2026-11-02

Gamefheroes2 1.1.17+dfsg-1 on Walnut 0.1, started as fheroes2
Played5.2 min at 1920x1080; it ended: crash (a crash)
Rulesrules 2.3 (2026-10-30)
On its own Scrap · 53 (too slow (4.7 fps)) this session alone; the game's rating merges its sessions (how)

Aspects

AspectScore (of 100)What was measured
Frame rate (22) 0/100median 5 fps, 1% low 4
Smoothness (18) 0/1004.5 s of stutter a minute, longest frame 6015 ms
Sound (12) 98/1000.4 audible sound dropouts a minute
Picture (12) 100/100nothing wrong found
Stability (12) 55/1001 crash, 0 unclean quits in 0.1 h of play (provisional: under 1 h)
Controls (10) 100/1001 of 1 tested checks pass (designed for keyboard and mouse: the gamepad only makes the badge)
Display (6) 75/100fullscreen 1920x1080; a desktop mouse pointer over the game -10; text 14 px high at 1080p -15
Features (5) 100/1001 of 1 tested checks pass
Load (3) 98/10016 s to the game's first screen (the level load not measured: no play mark or no input log)

Sound

Audible dropouts2 (0.43 a minute)
Buffer underruns110 (most are too short to hear; the audible ones are counted as dropouts)

Builds

fheroes21.1.17+dfsg-1+ps3.1082 Walnut's build
Linux kernel6.12.111+ps3.1224 Walnut's build
Mesa26.2.4-1+ps3.1219 Walnut's build
ps3rsx0.1210~dev20261031232806+k6.12.111+ps3.1210.dev20261031171117 Walnut's build

The player's answers

Did you hear the sound effects?Yes
Did you hear the music?Yes
Visual glitches?Didn't notice any
Gamepad in the menusDidn't try
Gamepad in playDidn't try
Keyboard and mouseWorked
Menus and modes you openedWorked
Saving and loadingDidn't try

Notes: Game hanged a few minutes in.

Picture review

ok: adventure map fullscreen at 1080p, picture right; the game hung after about 5 min (see notes)

Stretched or squashedno
Smallest text14 px at 1080p: the troop counts in the army panel
Mouse pointervisible

Screenshots

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