Free Heroes 2 - Enhanced

About

Free Heroes 2 - Enhanced is an engine recreation of Heroes of Might and Magic II with UI and gameplay-quality-of-life enhancements. Development is suspended — the author has lost interest in actively fixing issues, though they still incorporate working pull requests into new releases — and is separately attempting a Java/JavaFX port of the engine aimed at easier cross-platform support, including Mac and high-DPI/4K displays. Version 1.0 has been released, distributable on Windows via Chocolatey or direct download.

How it differs from the original

Enhancements over the original Heroes 2 include one-click building purchases and unit upgrades, a load-game list sorted by most recently saved, an optional quick-combat mode that resolves battles instantly (with the option to replay them), end-turn processing roughly 3-4 times faster, and tweaked game balance so boarding a boat or digging for treasure no longer drains all movement points.

Getting started

On Windows, an installer can also fetch the Heroes 2 demo or extra maps automatically; on Linux/macOS it's built from source via CMake, and either way it requires a copy of the original Heroes 2 (or its demo) data files to run.

Known limitations

• development: Work is suspended; issues remain untouched, though simple PR fixes are accepted.

Media

Additional notes

Known limitation

A map/scenario editor is explicitly not a goal of this project.