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 6d5b4406ea Title: Royal Bounty HDGenre: Adventure, Indie, RPG, StrategyDeveloper:iosoftwarePublisher:Hack The PublisherRelease Date: 10 Aug, 2015 Royal Bounty HD Free Download [full Version] No skirmish mode, no random maps, nothing more than a "memorize the correct steps" bare-bones campaign mode. It's not even worth it on sale, as I found out to my chagrin.. Very good game, I've had a blast so far! :D Good amount of quests and stuff to doPros- Good levling system- Solid Combat- Alot of Quests- A fair amount of different units to choose fromCons- Some enemy doesnt scale up after a while of gameplay- Some enemys scale so hard that I find them unbeatable even with Slow and blind spells taking them down 1 pack at a time- No way to get a proper amount of gold per turn to keep your army combat ready8\/10 it need some balancing patches. 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.. I always wondered why there are so little heroes 3 like games, especially on steam, and here we finally have one like this:+Looks pretty nice outside of the battle and battle looks like simplified heroes 3 one, but it's not bad looks okay. (also - the field seems to be wider, so archer units pretty powerful)+Soundwork: Amazing soundwork, I guess it's the biggest plus of the game, great OST choice <3, absolutely love it.+Gameplay: Everything is very close to heroes 3 so I list notable changes -auto day skip - why not, it's a single player after all -3 difficulties - 1st offers easy gameplay + infinity hirelings stacking while they wait for you to hire them, the medium is normal, and hard is pretty hard but you have to complete normal 1st. -buggy hud -splitting and grouping units, moving across the map involves some bugs, developer aware of and he said he is fixing them so... yeh. -More adventurish game style - you wander across the map way more time and build stuff way less. -Prove me wrong but it looks like units from different fractures do not affect each other moral.So in short - this game is pretty enjoyable variation of HOMM+Low price+steam cards+steam achievementsOverall it's sure value for money game, actually, it doesn't even deserve price this low. If you like heroes series - give it a try.. I run a Heroes of Might & Magic fan game site that has a long ever growing list of games similar to HoMM. Palm Kingdoms and Royal Bounty HD had sat in my list for a long time but I just hadn't got around to playing them. However when I recently found out that iosoftware had released Palm Kingdoms 1 & 2 for free I couldn't resist trying them out. I was so blown away and had so much fun with them that I went and bought their Royal Bounty HD here (not knowing whether it was good or bad) out of gratitude for the joy their Palm Kingdoms games had given me. Thankfully I was not disappointed!Like the Palm Kingdoms games Royal Bounty HD has a very HoMM2 look and feel to it. The races are setup very similarly (eg 6 primary races = Knight, Warlock, Sorceress, Wizard, Necromancer, Barbarian and a 7th bonus Viking race unique to the PK\/RBHD universe). While you could control these races in Palm Kingdoms the whole castle management system is dropped in Royal Bounty HD for a more classic King's Bounty style RPG adventure. So people looking for a more HoMM strategic castle conquering game should try Palm Kingdoms 2 instead and also keep an eye out for the up and coming Palm Kingdoms 3. Those who are looking for a short fun retro adventure set in a very HoMM\/King's Bounty style game world then Royal Bounty HD is definitely worth a try. Despite being an OCD player who has to find & do EVERYTHING I was able to polish the game off in about 2 days (roughly 14hrs of gameplay).Royal Bounty HD also has significantly upgraded graphics from its Palm Kingdoms predecessors, everything appears about 4 times bigger and detailed, from the looks of things these new graphics will be used for the up and coming Palm Kingdoms 3 which I'm very excited about! RBHD also adds HoMM5 style alternate upgrades to nearly all units in the game (eg a Paladin can become a Templar style Crusader or a golden Holy Warrior ) adding a very fun extra layer of depth and unit management (you need to complete chapter 1 to gain access to the upgrades). Once again it looks like these upgrades will be in PK3 as well so I'm very excited about playing a strategic castle conquest game with HoMM2 style units that have HoMM5 style alternate upgrades.By Chapter 3 things may start to feel a bit repetitive and grinding however iosoftware came up with some interesting ways to keep things interesting as Chapter 4 is filled with hire-able Ghosts and all the best units in the game trying to stop you (Phoenixes, Black dragons, Thors (Titans), Cyclops's etc) while in chapter 5 your hero is separated from his army has to explore a huge Arabian style city on his own trying to get help from the locals in the build up to the big final boss fight. So if you feel yourself getting annoyed and bored by chapter 3, fear not, I was able to wrap up 4 & 5 in a couple of hours as it's a pretty short game. If you get stuck or wanna speed things up just use iosoftware's official walkthrough here on steam.I'm a bit disappointed when reading some of the negative feedback here as I think some people are forgetting that they only paid a few dollars (basically 1 measly drink in a bar) for a game that took years upon years to create that has the races, units, artefacts and adventure map buildings of an entire HoMM game. Paying a measly couple of bucks for an obvious indie\/retro\/short game and then trashing it for not being a big AAA game is kinda idiotic. A few people are also complaining that the game is too hard and the lack of manual & tutorial options makes is unfriendly to people who've never played KB\/HoMM. I can understand that and at the very least there probably should have been a nice shortcuts\/help screen (accessible via the main menu) implemented that tells players all the keys (eg Ctrl + & - to zoom) and some of the core basics (eg what all the days, hero stats, map objects & movement mechanics are etc). Palm Kingdoms had a tutorial but I'm guessing that was dropped from Royal Bounty HD to not spoil the game start story elements. Personally I simply recommend that you watch a youtube video as that can show you in about 5 minutes how to play the game. I've made a few below that show just how easy it is to complete the first chapter even without visiting lots of the cool stuff in the forests away from the roads. After watching it you'll probably find the game too easy and will need to up the difficulty level haha. :PMy only real complaint is that steam achievements aren't working at the moment however fortunately I don't really care about that stuff much lol! Some people do so I thought I'd better mention it. I'll remove this complaint when fixed. :)Royal Bounty HD - Part 1 Video: Introduction, Prison Break, & Chapter 1 Forestria Beginning.https:\/\/youtu.be\/5tiAdG6J5soRoyal Bounty HD - Part 2 Video: Chapter 1 Forestria Continued.https:\/\/youtu.be\/5asf7Fol7WsRoyal Bounty HD - Part 3 Video: Chapter 1 Forestria Final Stages, Cool Unit Upgrades, Chapter 2 The Lost Scroll Teaser, & Peasant Upgrade MEGA Money Making Trick.https:\/\/youtu.be\/5tI0M_bl_z0. 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.. I am a huge srpg fan. Great or terrible, I'll give a game a fair spin. That being said, I don't understand what was going through the developer's mind when they created this game.Royal Bounty honestly feels like a Heros of Might and Magic 2 senario that we've been duped into paying 5 bucks for. This game uses the same or extremely similar engine and you control one hero. While this engine marginally works for an explorative rpg, it was really designed to be resource management and tile strategy. This becomes apparent as the leveling up of your hero does practically nil. On top of that, the units do not level up. So fighting in a way only atrophies your army. Unless you are playing perfect (not just great) even minor losses will stack up. The Ai is ok but nothing incredible. The fights are won or lost right off the bat. It's practically all about who has the bigger army. I suppose you could carry rogues with you the entire game and just scout what the fights are before hand. Fun. Alternatively, you can just mindlessly wonder your hero around for days, months, years just letting him passively collect income. You will earn approximately one unit a turn\/day. Then your army will be able to storm through a couple fights before getting chiseled down and needing to repeat the cycle. I say this because the fights carelessly and randomly alternate between maybe half a dozen peons to literally hundreds of enemies comparable to your few elite soldiers. The still screen artwork is actually really nice, as is the card artwork. The first introductory jailbreak scenario works. It is only maybe 15 minutes and one fight long, but this is the format the rest of the game should have followed by railroading the player and providing armies rather than making you brute force the system. I don't know if the story progresses into something memorable as I only have five hours of game time logged. It's pretty forgettable as of yet. Another huge test of your patience is the movement of your hero. He will stop REPEATEDLY. You will click for him to move and this will queue up movement footprints. Then you need to order him to move again by clicking again or pressing space. The problem with this movement check is the hero will stop again midmovement for day changes or text pop-ups. Sometimes he will stop for no reason at all. When you click again for him to move there is a long pause and you will not know if the computer is processing the move or if you will be waiting for eternity for the character to move. Repeat this process one million times.So only go for this game if you want a really campy walk through a Heros 2 scenario.Edit:I put a great deal more time into this game since my initial review. I don't know that the game works perfectly as an open campain, but the developers have been putting big things in the works. After some grinding I was able to get a pretty serious playthrough of this game, albeit hammering a pretty serious exploit. It still stands that I love the artwork. The controls are a pinch clunky. I hope they chisel an inventive game out of this old style engine.. This game is broken.The developer even admits to this on the forums after some searching that there are several bugs that the game has that cause it to be broken and plans to fix them in the future.This is not a Kings Bounty game. Its a kings bounty-like. If that makes any sense and in that same sense its also completely the wrong build for what they are doing.The developer argues that the game is "Hardcore" but hardcore also means this game is frustrating to a point where you can actually cause yourself to be put into a fail state in the game within the first hour of playing and have to go back to a prior save.The game isnt fun and thats the biggest problem. It isn't fun. It works, everything operates everything works as it should (I guess. The developer says it does and I dont find it amusing) but this is the problem. The developer keeps saying "Oh its suppose to be hardcore! Its suppose to be challenging!" Its not. Its just frustrating to play.Example:Your character does gain any meaningful troops until unlocking a part of the map that has better troops. You must complete a quest to get money on a daily basis. When you do this you can afford the troops and then slay more enemies. In the game you can pick up treasure chests and gold, you can put the chests into either XP or gold. Not knowing you should actually pick the gold for a majority of the times in the early game you can render yourself too broke to buy new troops. If you wait to build the money all the troops on the map multiply and make it impossible to ever kill them because the stashes where monsters spawn from dont multiply so you have to wait and buy them weekly which isnt enough time thus putting you into a fail state and you've already lost the game.This game isnt fun and that is the bottom line. Its just frustrating to play.If you want to play HoMM or Kings Bounty they are available on steam and just put the money into those or go to GoG and get them there. The amount of replayability you can get from HoMM 3 and Kings Bounty is endless. This game I just feel cheated from enjoying anything.The Developer is amazingly full of themselves as well on the forums so if you want to roll your eyes until your retinas detach just read the board.Edit: Note to the developers I still dislike this game even after the fixes. It just isnt fun, its tedious.Edit 2: After being told I suck at this game and I'm \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 by a white knight in the comment section of this very review I have discovered that this is an amazing game. 10\/10 -IGN, BEST GAME EVER MADE -Kotaku, The Game to End all games! - Some guy on the internet who called me an idiot. I have discovered that through being called names on the internet that I should retract and play this old af game when other things released DURING THE STEAM SUMMER SALE! Oh man Royal Bounty really stands up to par! BOY HOWDY!!!!! The review stays, this game still sucks.
Royal Bounty HD Free Download [full Version]
Updated: Mar 15, 2020