Heroes of Might & Magic V
Fair · Strategy · 2008
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $2.49. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 compliant w/ 64MB RAM (128 MB recommended) (see supported list*). Windows only.
Witness the amazing evolution of the genre-defining strategy game as it becomes a next-generation phenomenon, melding classic deep fantasy with next-generation visuals and gameplay. In the renowned Might & Magic universe, demon swarms spread chaos over the land in a relentless assault.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
May 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $2.49. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 93 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East ($2.49, scores 75) beats it on value, while it beats Heroes® of Might & Magic® III - HD Edition ($3.74, scores 49).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 88 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 564 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 3 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 494 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
Players
175 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Heroes of Might & Magic V scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/15170/heroes-of-might-magic-vThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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