About This Game Royal Bounty HD was crafted for the lovers of old adventure RPGs like King’s Bounty (1990). You are an adventurer named Jim, just out of the island prison. How you ended up like this is unknown. You have no gold and no army. Angry Cell Guard is chasing your heels. What a difficult situation! Your first quest is get away from the maze and find a ship. But it is just a beginning of the story. Your road lies across four huge continents, inhabited by a variety of monsters. You are going to visit a desert, frozen lands, go through woods and towns, and in the finale meet your old friend, The Master. En route you’ll have to earn money and gather an army to face him fully equipped. Nevertheless, you will still need a helping hand from Dragons. top-class pixel arttrue hardcore gameplay like back in the 90’s180 creature types in your armylong plot featuring several endingstons of questswell polished user interfaceWindows, Mac OSX, Android, and iOS versions are available at the moment.iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/royal-bounty-hd/id930361943?mt=8Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.palmheroes.royalbounty_hd&hl=enPlease check out this excellent, extensive Let's Play review of the game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqroxiodYog 7aa9394dea Title: Royal Bounty HDGenre: Adventure, Indie, RPG, StrategyDeveloper:iosoftwarePublisher:Hack The PublisherRelease Date: 10 Aug, 2015 Royal Bounty HD Verification Download This could have been what HoMM2 was back in the days, sadly its not and instead give you extreme difficulty and no multiplayer\/skirmish.6+\/10. If you played the originaly King's Bounty long ago like I did then this game should have a thumbs up and it is for you. I enjoyed it more for the memories than anything else:)For everyone else it is a thumbs down. It is too rough around the edges and has some bugs\/issues and is too primitive to recommend to someone who never played the original game.. TL;DR This is essentially a broken Heroes of Might and Magic II campaign, which starts out OK and goes terribly wrong and broken.It could've been decent, and to be honest I did have a bit of fun playing it early on, but Royal Bounty has a few MAJOR flaws.Monsters get exponentially stronger over time. Have fun taking out those 1,118,520 elementals with your 5,000 troops.It is way unbalanced. On my first try I got a gold mine and ran around to stock up on money. Couldn't buy anything and, again, enemies got WAY ahead of me. Second try, I went for citizens units which give gold. Now I had way too much money, but still couldn't keep up with how strong enemies were getting. This is all on "Easy" mind you. Then I went with only ghosts, which convert all enemies killed into new ghosts... and suddenly I could auto-battle through every fight and get exponentially stronger myself. It's either unbeatable or incredibly easy\/boring.Finally, I could never for the life of me beat the final boss. They give you a fixed number of units to fight with, but take away all your stats which you worked hard to get. Your spells hit like wet noodles and you're basically useless.I got it for like a dollar and got "more than my money's worth" in playtime, but what good is that if the end-game just \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 all over your face.... So, Let\u2019s cut to the chase. Heroes of Might and Magic II Clone.ORKings Bounty Clone.Who Cares? Good Games should be replicated.Now that\u2019s out of the way...A Review is in Order.I've actually managed to beat the game. ^ That doesn't sound like much, but holy hell is it hard. (But they added things for players to use to essentially cheat)PPS - Thanks for Adding those. Made re-runs easier.____________________________________________________________________The Bad:*** The game is buggy as all crap, crashes all the time, numerous problems.That being said the Dev\/s are actually working to fix it... (Most have been fixed) *** NPC Monsters around the world get too strong too quickly, so if you explore your going to have a bad time later.***Replay-ability drowns itself.See, the problem is that the map never changes... ...this makes your next run faster and more efficient picking and choosing what you want.However this also means nothing really changes. Once you've worked out a killer strategy, you'll never deviate from it.But I must say to lighten this negative point; I did restart the game 5 times to keep playing through - Learning from each time I restarted.So it does have some replay-Ability, just not a lot of it.***No Tutorials (Explore the UI yourself to work everything out)Took me two runs through this game before I realized that I could cast spells. (Perhaps its just me?)AKASteep learning curve.***Lack of Innovation, it\u2019s all been done before. But it\u2019s taken the good that It could and it\u2019s trying to remake itself with all the good stuff.***Hero movement can be a bit wonky, if you accidently click and try click elsewhere to go in a different direction it feels like a 80-20% swing that it will actually stop moving so you can change the pathing.***Lack of Options... you literally can't put this game into windowed mode with any ease.Its a very basic options screen.***Can't name saved games, hard to work out which save you want to load up some times.***Backtracking \/ Exploring is punished, creatures across the ENTIRE MAP get stronger the longer the game progresses...So while it won\u2019t affect you immediately it kicks the gears up later in the game. By quite a lot... (Yes I said this already - It\u2019s the biggest problem with the game, so it gets two entries!)((Also Ghosts Overpowered)).____________________________________________________________________The Good:***The game Auto-Saves CONSTANTLY which is brilliant. Before Combat - Start of Turn Etc.Auto-Save is brilliantly set up.***Crapload of Main Story quests AND Side Quests.***Combat is solid, very few bugs inside combat.***Variety of monsters you can have is insane. It has easily 100+ different monsters in the world. All of which you can recruit in some way or form. Orcs, Humans, Elves, Undead, Misc, Etc.*** Very challenging, this game will be no cake walk even on the easy difficulty.***Large freaken map... Like seriously its huge.***Dev's are actually willing to help you if you try talk to them... (Go Figure?!).They're constantly spoiling walkthroughs \/ secret locations.***The Art style is nostalgic, it\u2019s not fancy smancy graphics its old school art (Retro) and it simply works. This game looks amazing in its own style. (Even though it\u2019s supposed to be ((Royal Bounty HD)) -? <--- Lol What... What HD??!)Perhaps revamped would be a more appropriate word.***Fun and Interesting Story.***Multiple Endings.____________________________________________________________________Extra Cliff Notes:It's a $5 Game, for this price tag it\u2019s more than worth its value.Anyone who tells you to refund this game... is simply is a cheapskate. For $5 you are almost assured to get your time and fun out of this game. (Assuming you actually ENJOY Turn Based Games)Do NOT go into this game expecting ANOTHER GAME.This game IS NOT titled:- Might and Magic 2 HDOr - Kings Bounty HDThe main argument people are lodging at this game is that its not these games...This is an absolutely stupid argument.(Nearly 80% of the Negative reviews are using this argument as the core argument they are putting forth)(^ Of the day I made this review)____________________________________________________________________My PERSONAL Views.I actually quite enjoyed my time with this game. Its $5 and I managed over 10 hours in it, so its doing something right. I rarely get 10 hours from $20 games.I ran around and tried to full clear everything. But I\u2019m well aware of a ton of things I've missed, just don't know how to get to them -.-Also Necromancers Ring <-- How do I get Necromancy? WTF?!However as many people have noted, The NPC armies around the world need to increase at a far lower rate. They get stupidly powerful - stupidly quickly. The player is supposed to be the unstoppable force, not the NPC's around the world. I went into this game not knowing what Royal Bounty was and I had no prior bias in any direction. It was $5 and I picked it up, cause why not? - $5. All this said, I still would rate this game at a 7 \/ 10.Fun with lots of potential. As more things get balanced and fixed I can see this game becoming truly amazing.- Wolvie Remember Kiddies Dare2Game.. Heroes of Might & Magic (HoMM) is my favorite game series of all time. Playing Royal Bounty HD (RB) brought back fond memories of HoMM 1. The art design, the map, the hero, even the ambient sounds made me think of playing HoMM back in 1994. This is not to say, though, that RB is a HoMM clone. It most definitely is not. It has its own game style with its own unique set of rules. A key difference is that there is no castle with buildings to construct and the associated troops to hire. RB is first and foremost an exploration game. You travel over a single, huge map uncovering troops to assist you in your endeavors and enemies with which to battle. Teleporters are scattered over the landscape that catapult you and your army to far-flung regions of the map, somewhat in a puzzle fashion. I purchased this game last September and played it exclusively until it was done. I played approximately 30 hours, with a portion of that time associated with restarts as I got used to the game\u2019s idiosyncrasies. Some things I wish were better explained:\u2022\tTo zoom the map in\/out, hold CTRL and rotate the middle mouse wheel.\u2022\tTo center the camera on the hero, click the horse icon on the bottom right side of the screen. \u2022\tSome quests can be accomplished without fighting.\u2022\tTroops can be \u201cstored\u201d in towers.\u2022\tThe hero only has eight (8) skill slots. Valuable skills include Estates, Archery, and Earth Magic.\u2022\tGhosts are powerful. Each kill increases their number. Protect them and watch as they grow into a powerful army.All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed Royal Bounty. If you are an older gamer and remember New World Computing\u2019s masterpiece, Heroes of Might and Magic, or for that matter any gamer that enjoys fantasy turn-based strategy, I would suggest that you give Royal Bounty HD a shot. For me it was a couple of dollars well spent.
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