Might & Magic: Era of Chaos +17

I play a lot of freeware games where you collect heroes to make your team better and I usually enjoy them, even if most get old after a month or two. This one has the unique spin of letting you control units with multiple soldiers and strategically laying them out in a formation you choose. As you level you unlock slots on the whole battlefield for more units. It genuinely feels different from the other games I was talking about, for example Idle Heroes, because you can raise the star level of most units to become useful alongside your rarer units which balances the game and keeps all of your units useful in Different situations. The game is generous (so far) with evolution material as well, encouraging you to level your team evenly instead of beefing up one all star team and sacrificing them when you get better heroes. It’s very enjoyable and I highly recommend checking it out and seeing if it’s for you. Also, the paid content feels fairly integrated and not stacked against free users (it feels optional if you’d like to buy something rather than you never having the chance to get rarer heroes if you don’t spend money). The benefit for buying something vs earning it is that paid packs come with kit to raise the star level of your unit, which is nice.

To another world of Might and Magic. Where the elements of nature have become weapons for good and evil, the undead fight as an army, and dragons reign the skies. Like a real game I spend hours on, I’ve been playing this for just under a month. It is a “gacha” game (free-to-play) AKA “pay-to-win”. Its just not the case. I’ve spent money on this game simply because I enjoy it and love it and the strategy element hits EVERYTHING I love! I have never played M&M before but since it was by Ubisoft, thought I’d give it a shot. I was not disappointed, in fact, a little upset that I had missed out on something this good for so long. I’ve been a gamer my whole life, this game brings in elements for so many different strategies, it’ll keep ANYONE busy. They have a classic “honeycomb” strategy game called “guild adventure” that is just awesome! I’ve read it’s suppose to represent that ORIGINAL game, within reason of course. Either way, this game is very enjoyable. I love that you can overcome enemies (PvP & AI) with strategy regardless of “power level”. Great MOBILE game in my humble gaming opinion.

So I am used to playing games, I grew up back in the day of the first Might and Magic game, when it was 4 color CGA graphics and the only units you had were your rolled main heroes. The series has evolved constantly and here we are after decades of change and updates (evolution). For a mobile game, this current version has been amazing, I realize you can spend money to gain some additional benefits, but you don’t have too, I’ve found so far, that there is a lot of content, the basic players solo adventures combined with the guild overworld map with exploration, the enhancement of troops, dungeons of sorts and I guess for the modern generation the PVP stuff (not my forte, but it’s in there. My main point is, I’ve found it enjoyable as mobile games go. Thanks for the fun

- Tom (MN USA)