Free implementation of Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine.
You can download a compiled version of the game for your operating system at Github releases of this project.
All rights for the original game and its resources belong to former The 3DO Company. These rights were transferred to Ubisoft. We do not encourage and do not support any form of illegal usage of the original game. We strongly advise to purchase the original game on GOG or Ubisoft Store platforms. Alternatively, you can download a free demo version of the game.
You are required to have at least a demo version of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 game to be able to play it. Please use one of our scripts to download the demo version of the original game. A script comes with the compiled game.
Please go to script/macos and run install_sdl_1.sh or install_sdl_2.sh file. For MacOS we highly recommend to use SDL 2 as latest versions of MacOS do not fully support SDL 1.
Please go to script/linux directory and run install_sdl_1.sh or install_sdl_2.sh file.
For Arch based Linux distributions use the command sudo pacman -S sdl sdl_mixer.
RPM based distributions like Fedora/Red Hat use the commands sudo yum install SDL* or sudo dnf install SDL*.
openSUSE supports the One-Click-Install via SDL_mixer.ymp file in script/linux.
If you have Gentoo, in addition to basic distribution you need to run following command emerge --ask media-libs/sdl2-mixer media-libs/sdl2-ttf.
Please follow below instructions to be able to compile the project:
- open
script/windowsdirectory and run install_packages.bat file. It installs necessary packages for Visual Studio build. - open
script/demodirectory and run demo_windows.bat file. It downloads a demo version of the game which is needed for minimum development. - open fheroes2-vs2015.vcxproj or fheroes2-vs2019.vcxproj file depending on your Visual Studio and compile the project.
- open
script/macosorscript/linuxdirectory depending on your OS and run install_sdl_2.sh (default setup) or install_sdl_1.sh file. For MacOS we do not recommend to run SDL 1 as latest versions of MacOS do not support it fully. - open
script/demodirectory and run demo_unix.sh file. It downloads a demo version of the game which is needed for minimum development. - run
makecommand in root directory of the project. For SDL 1 compilation please runexport FHEROES2_SDL1="ON"command before compiling the project.
If you would like to build the project using CMake please follow the instructions on this page.
We welcome and appreciate any help, even if it is a tiny text or code change. Please read contribution page before starting work on a pull request. Not sure what to start with? Feel free to refer to good first issue or help wanted tags.
This project is under GNU General Public License v2.0. Please refer to file LICENSE for more details.
The original project had been developed at sourceforge.
We accept donations via Patreon or PayPal. All donations will be used only for the future project development as we do not consider this project as a source of income by any means.
