Heroes of Annihilated Empires

Set on Atlans, the elves’ homeland, the campaign follows an elf hero confronting an undead invasion. You guide the hero through varied fantasy locations and missions as the conflict develops.

Explore maps, fight monsters, complete quests, and grow your hero through experience, improved attributes, equipment, artifacts, and spells. Combat can center on the hero’s own weapons and magic, with optional finds and purchases helping shape how you play.

The strategy side involves gathering resources, constructing buildings, and recruiting units for large battles. In skirmishes and multiplayer, four distinct races offer different armies, and matches can emphasize building forces or developing a powerful hero.

In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often enjoy the unusual blend of hero development and real-time strategy, especially the contrast between building armies and growing a hero strong enough to shape battles. Large-scale fights, varied factions, and skirmish mode also draw praise. Reactions to the campaign are more mixed: some find its missions absorbing, while others criticize its difficulty, pacing, or story. Several reviews also report technical problems, though experiences vary.