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Explore Endoria as a royal treasure hunter, completing quests and building a creature army for turn-based tactical battles.
Released 01 May 2009
Explore Endoria
Command Creature Armies
Fight Hex-Grid Battles
King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.
Developed by Katauri Interactive · Published by Fulqrum Publishing








You play as a royal treasure hunter sent to explore Endoria, seek treasure and ancient secrets, and carry out quests for the king. Travel in real time through towns, wilderness, and dungeons while enemies roam the map.
When you engage enemies, combat shifts to turn-based tactical battles on a hex grid. Recruit and command creature squads, using positioning, morale, army composition, and spells to overcome opponents.
Choose a Warrior, Paladin, or Mage, each with a different approach to combat and progression. Develop your hero and experiment with creatures, spells, artifacts, and army combinations as you explore new locations and take on more quests.
Supplied reviews often praise the fairy-tale atmosphere, art, and music, along with tactical battles that reward careful army choices and a world full of quests to explore. Some reviewers find combat repetitive, difficulty uneven, or troop replenishment and travel tedious. A number also criticized a planned launcher; several later reviews say that decision was reversed. Reports about crashes and other update-related problems vary.
King’s Bounty: The Legend is a fan-favorite classic fantasy adventure and an early entry into the modern King’s Bounty era, built around tough battles, smart decisions, and turn-based tactics.
You play as a royal treasure hunter, sent to explore the lands of Endoria in search of gold, glory, and ancient secrets. Your journey takes you through lively towns, untamed wilderness, and perilous dungeons, each playing a role in a story that begins simply but grows into a tale filled with twists, surprises, and a memorable ending.
Your adventure in Endoria blends real-time exploration with turn-based tactical combat. The world feels alive as you travel, while battles focus on positioning, morale, army composition, and smart use of magic. Success depends on preparation and strategy rather than quick reactions.
Choose from three different hero types - Warrior, Paladin, or Mage - each offering a distinct playstyle, unique abilities, and different approaches to progression. A wide variety of creatures, spells, and artifacts allows you to experiment with strategies and build armies that suit your preferred way of playing, giving the game strong replay value.
King’s Bounty: The Legend invites you to become a hero in a fantasy world of fearless knights, evil mages, wise kings and beautiful princesses. Explore the land, command armies and accomplish quests for your king to reap great rewards... Or suffer devastating defeats.
Real-time exploration meets turn-based tactical battles: Freely explore the world in real time, then switch to deep, turn-based combat where positioning, timing, and preparation decide the outcome.
Deep, puzzle-like tactical combat: Battles are built around smart decisions, army composition, spell usage, and morale - not reflexes or brute force.
Addictive “one more battle” progression loop: Constant rewards, new units, artifacts, spells, and upgrades create a steady sense of progress that keeps the adventure moving forward.
Meaningful army-building and unit synergies: Recruit a wide variety of creatures and build armies around morale bonuses, abilities, and tactical combinations.
Three distinct hero classes: Play as a Warrior, Paladin, or Mage - each offering unique strengths, skills, and different approaches to combat and progression.
A large hand-crafted fantasy world: Dozens of locations and battlefields - both on the surface and in the dungeons. Travel through towns, wild landscapes, and dangerous dungeons filled with quests, secrets, and powerful rewards.
A dynamic world that doesn’t wait for the player: Enemies roam the map, pursue their own goals, and actively stand in your way, turning exploration into part of the challenge.





| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 64 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| AI disclosure | Generative AI was used as a supporting tool during the creation of some of the Steam Community assets, with all AI-generated images being carefully refined and significantly reworked by a professional graphic artist. The game itself (and all in-game artwork) was created entirely by human developers and artists, without the use of generative AI. |
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| Metacritic | 79/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |