Heroes of Might & Magic V: Tribes of the East
Worth it · Strategy · 2008
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $2.49.
- Reviews
- 93% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB DirectX 9.0c-compliant video card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
For the first time, play as the Orc faction and recruit heroes, build armies and manage cities as you explore and conquer legendary lands. Use tactics, skills and magic to outsmart fantasy armies while developing your heroes and unveiling the dark plot that threatens to tear the world of Ashan apart.
What drives the score
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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
It has never been cheaper than $2.49. That was February 2014. 94 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $2.49 at 75 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
On value it sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Battle for Wesnoth (free, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats Heroes of Might & Magic V ($2.49, scores 65).
Critics scored it 70. Players sit 23 points higher at 93 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
None of the 449 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 76 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Players
269 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: Tribes of the East scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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/15370/heroes-of-might-magic-v-tribes-of-the-eastThe 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 Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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