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SpellForce – Heroes & Magic – Roleplaying Game Review
SpellForce – Heroes & Magic is a Roleplaying/Strategy game from www.handy-games.com GmbH, first launched in 26th April 2019.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 25+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes SpellForce – Heroes & Magic Stand Out
Time for a new turn on the critically acclaimed SpellForce-Series. The epic fantasy saga is finally available on mobile devices, offering a whole new angle to the franchise. Leaving the story of its PC ancestors untouched and comes indeed 100%-story free, the Premium Game will offer turn-based strategy and tactics instead of real-time.
CRAFT YOUR FANTASY EMPIRE
Creating an own Kingdom turn by turn is the main goal in the 13-Mission long adventure mode or the free game, where you are facing your AI-opponents on randomly generated maps. Choose between the Dark Elves, the Orcs or Humans as playable races and ally or fight six neutral factions. Send your troops to conquer cities, to claim mines or farms and to search for treasure.
EXPLORE NEW LANDS
Your race’s hero will lead your army on their search for glory, treasures and valuable resources to exploit. Because your ever-expanding empire needs them to prosper. When you find new cities, you can muster new unique unitsand command them in any battle that lies ahead.
BATTLE YOUR ENEMIES
While your heroes explore the realms, you will meet your opponents on the battlefield and will exterminate them in simultaneous turn-based combats. Played out on hexagons, you’ll send Archers, Catapults, Knights or Dark Elf Necromancers against beasts & enemies like Spiders, Shadow Nightmares or Barbarian Berserkers. While you plan your actions, so does your enemy. When you both execute your plans, you’ll see who the better strategist is.
EVOLVE YOUR SOLDIERS
SpellForce: Heroes & Magic is also an Role Playing Game. Your hero and your soldiers both gain experience and they both can find magical items like swords, armor or other equipment. When you level up, you can learn new skills and of course seasoned warriors are more valuable on the battlefields than fresh recruits.
Features:
● No microtransactions, no lootboxes, no ads, not a single Free2play mechanic. Just a great game.
● Craft your own fantasy empire: Expand, Explore, Exploit and Exterminate. And no, we don’t think it’s a 4X game – do you?
● Lead your Heroes: Carry the battle to your opponents and defeat them.
● A world of magic: Heroes and units can cast Lightning Strikes or Fear Spells, can stun foes or heal companions.
● Simultaneously turn-based combat: Plan your armies’ actions while your enemy does and execute them at the same time.
● Items, Level ups, Skill-Trees: Individualize your army with fully fledged RPG mechanics.
● 3 Playable Races: Orcs, Humans, Dark Elves & their iconic heroes await your commands.
● 6 Neutral Races to ally with or fight against: Gargoyles, Shadows, Elves, Dwarves, Barbarians and Trolls are either loyal companions or fearsome enemies on the battlefield.
● Over 30 different units to muster and to lead into combat.
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This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, SpellForce – Heroes & Magic is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th August 2019
Recent improvements include:
Fixed missing skill points in battle mode
Download & Availability
SpellForce – Heroes & Magic is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get SpellForce – Heroes & Magic on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We like the game. Its like Warcraft 3 but turn based, which allows for more strategic maneuver and less tension. Its perfect for killing some time on the bus. We see the game hasnt been updated for a few months, we hope our wish still catches some attention from the dev team. In the battle view, when we use two fingers to zoom in, the screen center shifts to another point. For example when we zoom in with two fingers on an archer, the archer wont be at the center of the zoomed view. Ill have to scroll a bit to find where we were. Can you help with it? Im using iPad mini 5 with the most recent iPadOS.
Overall a fun strategy rpg. We have encountered a bug where moving workers around on the city page caused a worker to disappear if you didnt drop it perfectly on the square. We found no way to submit this bug from the app. Fix the bugs, create a feedback system in the game itself.
We like this game. We want to love this game, … But theres still quite a few bugs, and what looks like content that hasnt been developed yet. We hope that the publisher continues to support this title and finishes it, because it could be really good.
Range units seem to be grossly overpowered. There seems to be no limits to ranged combat. It makes ranged units all you need. Ive yet to make it into range with any of our melee units to even make an attack since all our ranged units nuke everything before they even have a chance to retaliate. We feel like the game could be good but the combats are so pointless since you just nuke everything before things even get interesting _()_/.
We like what the game is trying to do, but it seems awkward to accomplish anything. The first 15 minutes are especially confusing, as you struggle to figure out even basic things. The tutorial really doesnt even get you to a basic level of understanding. We dont love moving units between armies and garrisons, and the combat and game pacing is a little slow for our liking. Three stars because we absolutely give benefit of the doubt that the game could be better on a larger display (Im on iPhone XR) or if we spent more time on it (~2 hours total).
We are a fan of the spellforce series in general. This game has a lot of the components of a good mobile game, but in the end, its just way too easy to be interesting. This is a game that would really benefit from allowing the player to procedurally generate a map and adjust difficulty but instead the game has the player play a bunch of pre-generated maps. If you get a few crossbow men, pretty much all of the fights on the map are completely trivial. Combat is really not challenging or interesting at all. We played through five or six of these maps, hoping it would get more challenging and it never did. So we just uninstalled.
We wish the 1 star review didnt deter people away, because this is an amazing game to play. Reminds us a bit of might and magic.
Game was performing great until we got to the 3rd story zone. If at any point you complete beat one of the computer players, the game will not proceed through the next turn cycle. Gets stuck on the neutral player or the other computer player. Please fix.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.4
- Size: 447.24 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: www.handy-games.com GmbH
Last updated: 15th August 2019 | Genre: Roleplaying, Strategy | Developer: www.handy-games.com GmbH