VCMI

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About

VCMI is an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III with new possibilities. Years of intensive work resulted in an impressive amount of features. Among the current features are: Note: In order to play the game using VCMI you need to own data files for Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death. If you want help, please check our forum, bug tracker or GitHub page. - Complete gameplay mechanics - Almost all objects, abilities, spells and other content - Basic battle AI and adventure AI - Many GUI improvements: high resolutions, stack queue, creature window - Advanced and easy mod support - add new towns, creatures, heroes, artifacts and spells without limits or conflicts - Launcher for easy configuration - download mods from our server and install them immediately! - Random map generator that supports objects added by mods

Changelog

Stability Other - Fix possible crash on starting random map with random number of players - Fixed crash on updating a mod in which mod description file has been removed - Block special creatures from being selected for special weeks even if they are marked as allowed to prevent crash - Fixed crash on failure to load H3 bitmap font, in favor of using true type font provided by VCMI - Fixed possible crash on starting a save with eliminated human player - Fixed possible crash on Android on displaying message boxes when VCMI is inactive - Game will now stop video playback on stream corruption instead of crashing - Fixed failure to open .zip archive on systems that use minizip-ng library, such as Fedora - Fixed crash on attempt to create zero-sized slider - Fixed crash on right-clicking on configurable map object with empty config - Fixed several possible crashes on shutdown - Fix potential crash due to use-after-free in movement animation - Fix possible crash on hero with invalid starting army escaping a battle - Fix concurrency race in NKAI’s - Fixed crash on manual import of mod with unsatisfied deppendency - Fix crash on having ADVANCED_NECROMANCY bonus when loading game started in 1.6 release - Fix possible crash on object fade-out - Do not allow targeting unavailable hexes with area attacks - Fix saving of server port number

Additional information

Developer

VCMI Team

License

GPL-2.0-or-later

Category

Strategy

Size

97.5 MB

Homepage

https://vcmi.eu/

Available via

Flathub (Flatpak), Snap Store (edge build), AUR, AUR (git build), Debian, Ubuntu, Nixpkgs, RPM Fusion, Solus, Gentoo

Catalog data as of

9/3/2026 (dataset snapshot date — per-app update dates aren't tracked yet)