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Might & Magic: Heroes VI
Developer Blackhole
Might & Magic Heroes VI, also known as Might & Magic: Heroes VI, is a turn-based strategy video game for Microsoft Windows developed by Black Hole Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. Some patches and downloadable content were developed by Limbic Entertainment, while the standalone expansion Shades of Darkness was developed by Virtuos. It is the sixth installment in the Heroes of Might and Magic series, and was… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
286 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
50
Mixed
85 positive · 86 negative
95% range 42–57%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 85 | 86 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 21 | 6 | 76 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
1 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
1,644 of 4,219 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
48% recommend · 82 yes, 88 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 170 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (4,468 of 9,296 positive).
Many reviewers complain about game-breaking bugs and technical issues. [1][2][3]
Liked
Representative posts
- [1]
I played more than 900 hours to complete all the campaign missions. This is the best HoMM game that I have ever played (I~VI, not yet play VII). However, I must admit that nearly all the negative reviews are true. I quitted playing this game for 4 times. The first time was due to the Arena bug that I cannot use my faction ability. The second time was due to the "affinity staff" bug that directly ruined my hero (so …
- [2]
I love the game, the cutscenes, cinematic, music, graphics and gameplay, overall it is the best homm of series. BUT, it also has the worst bugs in history of homm.
- [11]
It's Ubisoft. You want to play one of their games 10 years later? Sorry can't play. Just pirate.
- [3]
So buggy. Long time HOMM player so decided try the newer ones. Yes, I started playing after servers shutdown however I did not see why that would make a difference to singleplayer game. However I'm going to have to give up. Had enough the of bugs. So just starters massive horizontal tearing moving vertical onscreen. That eventually fixed by using VSYNC options in graphics card (NOT in the game). When using menus in …
- [10]
Went to play this after several years to see that they've long-since removed multiplayer. I've got games far older than this with a still-functioning multiplayer system. Leave it to Ubisoft to ruin a beloved game with poor management and an insistence on forcing players to use THEIR platform with an additional account registration and several redundancies, just for some extra "control." The hate is less about the …
Summarised from 34 of the 278 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked Might & Magic: Heroes VI talk about great story and godly music; those who didn't talk about game-breaking bugs and crashes. Which matters more to you?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Initially, the game was plagued with numerous in-game crashes, lock-ups, errors, and bugs; poor artificial intelligence; significant faction/hero/creature imbalance; and the usage of DRM. The game has been updated with several patches, bringing the version to 2.1.1. On September 25, 2013, Ubisoft declared that there would be no more online support on Heroes VI, bringing an official end to the updates. The game received positive to mixed reviews according to the review aggregation website It is listed as an IGN Editors' Choice, citing "addictive turn-based strategy" gameplay and "major improvements to a fantastic formula". GameSpy and GamePro noted similar positives but lowered their scores…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 286 · most liked firstA world in animated motion 💜I'm glad the upcoming Olden Age HoMM game is going back to this perspective and having a larger view of the world. Heroes of Might & Magic III: Horn of the Abyss
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh my god, Might & Magic on the PC Engine has been Lodoss-ified.
neutral · AI labelView post →Wait, are you saying the guy who wrote a huge email to us about how we were “taking food off his table” because I didn’t think that Dark Messiah of Might & Magic was a 9 has other bad thoughts about game reviews???
neutral · AI labelView post →I got Heroes of Might & Magic II working on Win11 this morning. It was the first real PC game I ever played back in like 2000 when I found a copy of it at a local Goodwill. Its also the first time I was ever stunned by music in a video game. Every town theme is ridiculous, especially for 1996.
positive · AI labelView post →You might sometimes think that you are doing a terrible job, but trust me, you will never be as bad as Ubisoft releasing Heroes of Might & Magic 3 on Steam and forgetting to INCLUDE ALL THE GAME FILES
neutral · AI labelView post →Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes is a spinoff of a spinoff, that took the strategy RPG design to new levels by deciding that this one was also a match-three puzzle game. It works, though, as much back in 2009 as it does in 2026, whether you play the DS original or one of the many HD ports since.
positive · AI labelView post →I've played the Heroes of the Seven Islands demo, it's a cozy light RPG with classic Might & Magic inspirations, feels like a lost Flash game from the late 2000s: store.steampowered.com/app/3010290/...
neutral · AI labelView post →I can't get the idea of making my own Might & Magic type game out of my head. I think I'm gonna have to do it at some point. It's all I can think about sometimes. Maybe I should just play Might & Magic again to get it out of my system.
neutral · AI labelView post →Game Boy Color has these wonderful ports (I guess they can be called official "demakes") of Heroes of Might & Magic games that feel like a missing link between Heroes and King's Bounty. First game is basically Heroes 1, but the second game is more like Heroes Greatest Hits.
neutral · AI labelView post →Giving this one more push over the weekend! I played Might & Magic 2's relatively obscure Super Famicom version and, hey, it totally rules. It also blows my mind that there are THREE 16-bit console versions of this game for some reason.
positive · AI labelView post →📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 Roaring out of Dragon Magazine in April 1998 - The Ultimate RPG Archives! A grab-bag of some of the CRPG greats including Wasteland, Bard's Tale, Might & Magic, and Wizardry.
neutral · AI labelView post →Another relic of PC gaming past: "Might & Magic" (1987) comes with a little notepad in addition to the usual manual & map. You're expected to map out all the game's locations yourself, and this process is required to play the game properly. #DOSGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →I randomly went back to Might & Magic X and it's such a early-2010s-ass game. It's loudly an "old-school RPG revival" with lots of passion, but feels more nostalgic than a great game by itself... shame the team could never do a M&M XI. Also, it supports widescreen but still feels better in 4:3 lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorites From Gamescom ONL Pre-Show w/Kyle Bosman 🔥 Worms: Galactic Tactics Rollercoaster Tycoon: Wonderworks Murals Rainbow 6: Tactics Lofsöng Game of Thrones: War for Westeros Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons LEGO Skylines Heroes of Might & Magic III Remake CD Projekt Red for ABSOLUTELY BRINGING IT!
neutral · AI labelView post →This is such a nostalgic image to me. I loved Might & Magic VI, the first Might & Magic game I really sank my teeth into back in the day. The digitized portraits and their goofy expressions and the Temple of Baa still bounce around my head.
positive · AI labelView post →📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺 Take a Deep Breath... I'd never heard of Wetlands before, a 1995 DOS game from New World Computing, who were most famous for the Might & Magic games. Here, they're turning their hand to publishing Hypnotix's Wetlands, a cinematic game with a style similar to Fear Effect.
neutral · AI labelView post →I really can't get past the idea that if I had unlimited time to make my dream game, I think I'd ultimately end up just remaking Might & Magic VIII. It really is kinda just the perfect video game in so many ways.
positive · AI labelView post →It's Ubisoft. You want to play one of their games 10 years later? Sorry can't play. Just pirate.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FERAL BLOOD DOLL is a full-blown first person CRPG in the vein of Wizardry 8 or Might & Magic VI. Tactical turn-based combat. Tons of classes, skills, stats and systems. A game where you have to discover everything for yourself without handholding.
neutral · AI labelView post →Lots of news in last week's #TurnBasedThursday showcase! 🐓 Award-winning dungeon crawler roguelike now on Steam 🌌 Sci-fi Heroes of Might & Magic-like gets a new name 🏴☠️ Newly launched pirate puzzle strategy game 🦕 Upcoming castle-on-a-dinosaur adventure & many more! ⤵ #Gaming #TurnBased #IndieGames
neutral · AI labelView post →Seriously slept-on game, now several expansions deep. A good counterpart to the new Heroes of Might & Magic, I'd say - faster combat, weirder setting.
neutral · AI labelView post →This game gives you a CD key to use on UBIsoft's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, incompatible platform. I purchased it a few years ago and wanted to play again. The key does not work anymore, although it acknowledges it is registered to the same account email. Customer support proposes a solution that simply pisses me off and have not done. That involves unlinking my steam account, deleting the ubisoft application, and DELETING steam which is my whole library. Then reinstalling. This is simply a pain in the ass with…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yess Might & Magic 6 glazing on the timeline!! Still one of the most replayable RPGs ever with so many ways to route ur run and get OP fast via cleverness... And they had like 100 enemies onscreen in 1998 w software rendering. Just an amazing game, pls play it
positive · AI labelView post →If you buy this game you will not own this game. You will not be able to play it offline. You will have to install an additional digital distribution platform and create an account.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Post your first RPG Might & Magic Book 1 was the first game I intentionally bought with my own money and played through to the end.
positive · AI labelView post →1 more person giving a bad review because of ubisoft crap DRM. cant even play a game i bought because your system never works. Hope this business model dies soon. This should be illegal and forced to refund as soon as access is not being granted. This is theft.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Greb's out kicking people again, watch out! Live in 15 mins with The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot! www.twitch.tv/iggymaid A totally unhinged game similar to Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, but by a solo developer! #vtuber #SirKicksalot #stream
neutral · AI labelView post →The key codes for the game no longer work and tells me they have already been used. I only have 1 steam account.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here are some hero portraits I did a while back for the wonderful game Songs of Conquest, a spiritual successor to Heroes of Might & Magic 3. www.songsofconquest.com #Songsofconquest #gameart #conceptart #illustration #art
neutral · AI labelView post →BUYER BEWARE! (lengthy essay below, feel free to skip it) Used to own a physical copy back in the day, also bought and played the steam title. For reference, Ive been a fan since HOMM2 and played every title since. I Liked this one for attempting something new with the series, leaning more heavily on the campaign, incorporating some interesting new mechanics and the dynasty system. However, this game is plagued by issues. For starters, it is a ubisoft product and all the issues that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ben is back from Vegas and rocking a bonus cozy stream of the brand New Heroes of Might & Magic game, which is basically a board game right? twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun
neutral · AI labelView post →I played more than 900 hours to complete all the campaign missions. This is the best HoMM game that I have ever played (I~VI, not yet play VII). However, I must admit that nearly all the negative reviews are true. I quitted playing this game for 4 times. The first time was due to the Arena bug that I cannot use my faction ability. The second time was due to the "affinity staff" bug that directly ruined my hero (so so so angry). The third time was due to the "loss of teleport spell" bug, and the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Capybara games announced that their game 'Battle Vision Network' which is a spiritual successor to 'Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes' is changing to a "single-player campaign experience with roguelike inspired progression". youtu.be/25wTm_4EOg4?... store.steampowered.com/news/app/221...
neutral · AI labelView post →Jokes aside, it's a very interesting case of mixing design approaches - what if Might & Magic had Final Fantasy combat? I like these experiments. Imagine if Persona went back to its roots and the whole game was 1st person, like Skyrim? Fun to think about.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ubisoft cut its Sydney/San Francisco/Osaka/Leamington development teams, but don't worry -- they're working with Immutable to make that Might & Magic blockchain trading card game you never knew you wanted??? news.ubisoft.com/en-us/articl...
neutral · AI labelView post →So buggy. Long time HOMM player so decided try the newer ones. Yes, I started playing after servers shutdown however I did not see why that would make a difference to singleplayer game. However I'm going to have to give up. Had enough the of bugs. So just starters massive horizontal tearing moving vertical onscreen. That eventually fixed by using VSYNC options in graphics card (NOT in the game). When using menus in the towns like picking a new sub-hero you lose ability to navigate…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Pass Wave 2 April 2026: 4.21: -Vampire Crawlers 4.23: -Kiln 4.28: -Aphelion 4.29: -Trepang2 4.30: -Sledding Game -TerraTech Legion -Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era 5.5: -Final Fantasy V Premium: -Little Rocket Lab -Sopa: Tale of the Stolen Potato news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/0...
neutral · AI labelView post →I owe you an apology, Fatekeeper. I wasn't really familiar with your game. 👀 Really impressive 8-minute gameplay premiere from this first-person swords-&-spells RPG. Check it out if you're a Hexen and/or Dark Messiah of Might & Magic fan: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaRW...
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun game dev fact of the day: The entire Heroes of Might & Magic 3 Complete game, released in 1999, takes up about as much space on disk as ten uncompressed 4k textures. A single hunter with armor and a weapon in Monster Hunter World with HD textures takes more textures to render than that.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ultimate insight into development of Heroes of Might & Magic. A little late to the party, given this interview came out 3 months ago and the game he's promoting has launched into early access, but it's still fun to listen to Van Caneghem talk about the early days of PC game development and the HoMM franchise.
neutral · AI labelView post →RPG developer did some cool stuff with their games. Like when you could copy the game data of Might & Magic 4 into the folder of Might & Magic 5 creating a massive campaign that combines the ones of both games.
neutral · AI labelView post →Heroes of Might and Magic is like the Command and Conquer of games that are treated like crap. Sell the rights to a company who will respect the series. NWC, Westwood, RIP.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was today years old when I found out HDI did a Norse mythology game that's essentially a mix of their own Machiavelli The Prince/Merchant Prince and Heroes of Might & Magic It's no surprise I love it -- Machiavelli The Prince is one of my all time favourite DOS games www.gog.com/en/game/hamm...
neutral · AI labelView post →"Log into your Ubisoft account to connect"
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Went to play this after several years to see that they've long-since removed multiplayer. I've got games far older than this with a still-functioning multiplayer system. Leave it to Ubisoft to ruin a beloved game with poor management and an insistence on forcing players to use THEIR platform with an additional account registration and several redundancies, just for some extra "control." The hate is less about the game itself. It's about the company that botched its support for it. Ubisoft is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was a fun iteration of HOMM back in the day. Now Ubisoft won't allow me to play again due to deleted Uplay account. Avoid Ubisoft.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thank you for reading yet another ARbitrarY Game Awards post, see you again next year! 🏆 Best game on backlog: Resident Evil: Requiem 🏆 Best jolly co-op: Split Fiction 🏆 Best expansion: Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty 🏆 Best oldie: Heroes of Might & Magic 3 🏆 Best MMO: Guild Wars 2 📜 3/3
neutral · AI labelView post →Steam tells me I played this game 324 hours long : I'm no masochist, so I probably enjoyed it. I loved lots of the previous games, HOMM I, II, III, IV, V and King's Bounty before that, so no surprise that HOMM VI was on the top of my list some years ago. There are now two problems : - First, I don't remember anything of the story or the game. This is no good sign - Second, after downloading it yesterday, my game keys don't work anymore. Why ? Because I need a f*** Ubisoft Connect account,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition is coming to Steam with major upgrades for the classic.
neutral · AI labelView post →Heroes of Might & Magic II. I wasn’t very good at it (and I still suck at strategy games to this day :D) but six year old me was fascinated by how beautiful the spritework was. it was the first game I remember looking at and thinking “oh wait that’s art, that should be in an art gallery”.
positive · AI labelView post →Ubisoft doesn't let me play the game I own...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was going to start Stellar Blade today, but then I suddenly decided I needed to try and play through Might & Magic III: Isles of Terra because...I just need to! And now I'm in the second town of the game, ready to go dungeon spelunking...again!
neutral · AI labelView post →Requires online connection to play with Ubisoft Connect. Their account support is 1/5 stars.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game doesn't work on Windows 11. I tried all the recommended fixes in multiple iterations and combinations but nothing works. I've probably spent an hour trying and all I get is a black fullscreen with only the cursor visible. Audio works, but no image. It's deeply frustrating. Until Ubisoft fixes this game's compatibility, don't bother buying this game as it is unplayable unless you have an old machine running an older version of Windows.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Live with the Season 18 SNESFantasy Preview Show, followed by finally starting potentially THE biggest game of SNESMania: Game 549: Might & Magic III: Isles of Terra! twitch.tv/spikevegeta
neutral · AI labelView post →sketching out a game idea that combines elements from Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, and Alone In The Dark, in an innovative fusion genre I'm calling Dark Dark Dark Dark
neutral · AI labelView post →Don't let the 45 hours fool you, most of it is afk trying to find fixes for bugs. Mainly there has been 2 times I have finished a quest and it didn't mark it off. So I have 2 save files on 2 different quests that are just done. The autosave and main save are both past the point of no return. This game is horrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Pick 20 games that had a big impact on you. Share one game a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, and no specific order!" Day 3: Heroes of Might&Magic 3
neutral · AI labelView post →The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky #Might&Magic Day 7: Might & Magic
neutral · AI labelView post →This garbage ubisoft connect launcher needs to go
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
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