Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era — Latest Updates & Patch Notes
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is currently the #50 most-played game on Steam, with a 24-hour peak of 42K concurrent players — ▼ cooling off (was #42 last week).
Last official update Jun 2, 2026 (yesterday) · 12 updates in the last 90 days · 12 tracked here.
- Steam rank
- #50 ▼
- Peak (24h)
- 42K
- Genre
- RPG, Strategy, Early Access
- Developer
- Unfrozen
- Released
- Apr 30, 2026
- Price
- $39.99
- Steam reviews
- 15K
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is the official prequel hailing back to the origins of the genre-defining, critically acclaimed series of turn-based strategy games. Raise grand armies and wield devastating spells to overcome your foes in both solo and multiplayer.
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Latest updates & patch notes
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Patch #9: Hotfix & Balance Adjustments
Greetings, Heroes! Yesterday’s patch brought significant changes, and today we’re releasing a hotfix to address them. Having analysed the initial data and your feedback following Patch 8, we’ve concluded that a number of changes have had too significant an impact on single hero…
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Patch #8: Skills Rework, Balance Pass & Exploit Fixes
Greetings, Heroes! A brand-new patch is now live — and it is a massive one. This patch covers extensive balance adjustments across multiple game systems: skills, spells, hero specializations, creatures, artifacts, map templates, and the matchmaking system. The expert-level…
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is getting a roguelike mode, a Thieves Guild, and a sprawling underworld with unique terrain
Before I tell you about the Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era early access roadmap, I fear I must finally have a tantrum about the terrible word, "roadmap". Videogame developers, I cannot think of a more flattening, soul-sapping way to describe the process of tinkering with…
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The Land of Glory: 1,000,000 Copies of Olden Era Sold!
Greetings, Heroes! We are now a month into the Early Access of HoMM: Olden Era during which we’ve got to see you explore Jadame in every way imaginable! However, there's something you have done that has completely blown us away: Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has already…
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Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era teases a roguelike mode as it hits 1 million sales
Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era's strategy of building on the series' peak—the 1999 classic HoMM 3—has paid off. In a single day it broke even, shifting 250,000 copies . And in less than a month it managed to climb up to 1 million... Read more.
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Building the Future — HoMM: Olden Era's Early Access Roadmap is here!
Greetings, Heroes! What a lovely start to an Early Access these past four weeks have been! So, so many of you have decided to join an expedition or catch a portal to Jadame, explore it and share feedback with us — we’ve been extremely happy to work with it these past few weeks!…
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Patch #7: Removing Abuses and Improving Campaign
Greetings, Heroes! A new update is now live! This patch focuses on significantly improving the overall campaign experience, eliminating progression-breaking script crashes, and optimizing map areas. We have also fixed several bugs that were unfairly abused in some games…
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AI Building Construction HotFix
Greetings, Heroes! We're releasing a small hotfix addressing two annoying bugs that affected AI behavior and multiplayer stability. Changelogv. 0.80.15Fixed a bug where AI was not constructing buildings in its cities. Fixed a bug where a player would sometimes not appear in the…
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Patch #6: Network Stability, Balance Tweaks & Campaign Fixes
Greetings, Heroes! We have just released a new patch focused on multiplayer stability, gameplay improvements, and a wide range of fixes across the campaign, user experience, and interface. This patch resolves several causes of desynchronizations and softlocks in online play…
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Steam Global Top Sellers for week of 5 May — 12 May 2026
* Forza Horizon 6 ; * Subnautica 2 ; * Diablo® IV ; * Gamble With Your Friends ; * Far Far West ; * Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era ; * Dead as Disco ; * Windrose ; * Conan Exiles Enhanced ; * Baldur's Gate 3 ; * excluding free to play games View top 100 on SteamDB
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Patch #5: Gameplay Optimizations and UI Fixes
Greetings, Heroes! We have just deployed another update to address several technical issues and quality-of-life bugs reported by the community. This patch focuses on refining Multiplayer UI, and squashing persistent bugs within the Diplomacy and Recruitment skills. We’ve also…
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Patch #4: Network Crash Hotfix for 3+ Players
Greetings, Heroes! Thank you for sticking with us and sharing your feedback on Discord, the Steam forums, and in reviews — we read every comment. Keep it coming! We've seen a lot of reports about issues playing with multiple friends, so we're putting out a hotfix for this as…
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About Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era
This newest entry in the renowned Heroes of Might and Magic series brings strategic empire building, epic turn-based tactical battles, and in-depth RPG mechanics to a world of fantastical beasts, formidable spellcasters, and fierce champions. Explore a vibrant world full of secrets and dangers as you play through an epic narrative campaign that heralds impending doom, or conquer both procedurally generated and hand-crafted maps, building magnificent cities and raising massive armies of mythical creatures to vanquish your foes. Made for series veterans and newcomers alike, Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is built on the familiar…
Game details
- System requirements (minimum)
- Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-10300 (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 3100 (quad-core) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 (4 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ RX 5500 XT (4 GB) / Intel® Arc™ A580 (8 GB) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD required
- Languages
- English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Japanese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Italian, Portuguese - Brazil * languages with full audio…
- Official site
- unfrozen.studio
Frequently asked questions
- Is Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era free to play?
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a paid game ($39.99) on Steam.
- What is the latest Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era update?
- The most recent official update is "Patch #9: Hotfix & Balance Adjustments" (Jun 2, 2026), categorized as Patch. Greetings, Heroes! Yesterday’s patch brought significant changes, and today we’re releasing a hotfix to address them. Having analysed the initial data and your feedback following Patch 8, we’ve concluded that a number of changes have had too significant an impact on single hero…
- How many people play Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era?
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era peaked at 42K concurrent players in the last 24 hours, ranking #50 on Steam's most-played chart (it was #42 the previous week).
- When was Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era released?
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era was released on Apr 30, 2026 by Unfrozen.
- What kind of game is Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era?
- Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a RPG, Strategy, Early Access game, featuring single-player, multi-player, pvp.
Live player counts and update notes are pulled from Steam's public data and refreshed daily (last refresh: Jun 4, 2026). Excerpts are from official announcements; follow the source links for full notes. Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era and all related assets are trademarks of their respective owners.