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Lovely adventuring RPG series. Casual, story-driven journey and quests. An ancient evil awakened in the kingdom. Travel through the four valleys to become a hero and save the kingdom on the brink of destruction.
Hero of the Kingdom III is a adventure, rpg and casual game
developed and published by Lonely Troops.
Released on August 30th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 16 languages: English, Polish, Danish, Czech, German, Ukrainian, French, Dutch, Turkish, Spanish - Spain, Hungarian, Russian, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil and Slovak.
It has received 1,458 reviews of which 1,143 were positive and 315 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: x86-64 compatible
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 10.0 compatible
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 520 MB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS 11
- Processor: x86-64 compatible
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
- Storage: 520 MB available space
Linux
- OS: 64-bit Linux distribution
- Processor: x86-64 compatible
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
- Storage: 520 MB available space
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As an old Runescape player, this one called out to me the most! The third installment has less quests and more focus on skills/foraging/interacting with the environment. It was a blast to walk around multiple times and keep gathering/fishing/etc. I couldn't get enough of it! I maxed it all out and it made me feel a bit like I was back in the good ol' times... Just staying up late and fishing... While some of us aren't able to return to those wonderful times or feel that same feels anymore... That doesn't mean there wont be small moments like these that bring joy to us. For that... Thank you! Thank you for helping me relieve my fun days of nostalgia and enjoy the hell out of this game! I severely appreciate it!!! <3 <3 <3
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Hum... It's OK. This is an adventure game with lite RPG elements. The Music is also OK. The story is basic, generic fantasy stuff. No bugs or crashes. Overall, entertaining. Hero of the Kingdom 3 has more meat on its bones—it’s bigger, and introduces a few new mechanics. At its core, it’s an exploration game where gathering resources is your main tool for solving quests. Sure, it can feel a bit grindy, but honestly, that might be more of a feature than a flaw. Why do some folks want to speedrun everything, then complain when a game takes its time? It’s a mystery. There are cards, achievements, and a cozy vibe throughout. It’s clearly designed for players who enjoy spending time collecting and exploring. Not really a puzzle game, not quite a point-and-click either—more like a relaxed twist on the hidden object genre. No stress here. Just enjoy the scenery.
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Hero of the Kingdom III is the biggest and most ambitious entry in this casual adventure series. It introduces a lot of new features that make the game feel more like a full-fledged RPG than the earlier titles. This time, the story casts you as a young hunter raised by your uncle, and an ancient evil has awoken to threaten the kingdom. You must journey through four vast valleys to save the land from darkness. The scale of the adventure is noticeably larger, instead of one region or a few islands, you’re traveling across multiple distinct areas in the kingdom. Along the way, the game focuses on new gameplay mechanics like cooking, crafting, skill progression, and even monster respawning. I really enjoyed these additions. For example, you can set up a camp anywhere in the world to cook food, brew potions, or smith weapons and armor as you learn recipes. This made me feel more involved in the world, gathering ingredients and improving my gear, which is a nice RPG-like touch. Combat is also a bigger element now, there are lots of monsters "roaming" around (giant spiders, ogres, undead, etc.), and defeating them is often tied to your skills. The more you fight or perform an activity, the more your character’s skill in that area increases over time. There’s no traditional XP bar, but skills level up in the background as you use them, which was a bit confusing at first, yet it was satisfying to see new abilities unlock after I did enough of an activity. With monster respawning in areas you’ve cleared, you can also grind or farm resources if you need to, which is a big change from the previous games’ one-and-done encounters. Overall, Hero of the Kingdom III made a great first impression on me by expanding the gameplay and making the world feel more alive. It felt like the series evolved from a tiny casual game into a light RPG – something many fans, including myself, appreciated. That being said, the experience in Hero of the Kingdom III wasn’t perfect. The story took a more mystical, high-fantasy turn, and at times I found it a bit strange or disjointed compared to the straightforward plots of the first two games. Your hero starts having prophetic visions of a princess and magical stones guiding him, which is a new narrative element that some players found intriguing but I personally found a little confusing. The main quest of stopping an “ancient evil” is pretty generic fantasy, but the way it’s presented with these dream-like slideshows was different from before. I did stay curious about how it would all wrap up, even if the storytelling felt a bit all over the place. In terms of gameplay flow, the beginning of Hero of the Kingdom III is slower and more challenging than the earlier games. Early on, I often felt money was very scarce and I had to work hard to afford supplies. Tasks like buying enough food, tools, or potions to survive felt grindy at first, because you’re not yet strong enough to craft everything yourself. You have to be thrifty and do a lot of side jobs (like selling fish or trading wheat for profit) just to progress in the early stages. Fortunately, as you advance, you unlock the ability to craft your own items and the economy opens up. By the mid-game, I had set up my camp and could cook meals, brew healing potions, and forge weapons, which made my life much easier. Also, because monsters and resources respawn, I could farm gold and materials by revisiting areas, so eventually I went from feeling poor to having more money and items than I needed. This balance, tough at first, plentiful later, seems to be by design, to encourage you to explore all the new features and not rush ahead. It’s a more complex game than its predecessors, which is both a strength and a potential turn-off if you preferred the ultra-simple nature of Hero of the Kingdom I and II . My biggest gripe with Hero of the Kingdom III is the amount of grinding required, especially if you’re aiming for full completion. This third installment has 57 achievements to earn (the most in the series so far), and many of them are tied to performing large quantities of actions. For example, there are achievements for cooking dozens of meals, slaying lots of each monster type, maxing out all your skills, and so on. I consider myself a patient player, but going for 100% pushed that patience to the limit. The game’s casual pacing, which is usually relaxing, became frustrating when I had to repeat certain tasks over and over. Every action, like crafting a potion or catching a fish, triggers a slow progress bar or animation of about 5–10 seconds. When you need to do it ten or twenty times, that’s fine, but when you need to do it 100+ times, it really drags. Unfortunately, there’s no shortcut or batch crafting feature to speed this up. The game doesn’t let you “make 20 of these” automatically, so grinding everything manually becomes very grindy and time-consuming. I distinctly remember spending what felt like ages just clicking the same spot to brew potions one by one for tough fights, wishing I could queue them up. By the end of the journey, after defeating the final boss, I still had to roam the map hunting down extra monsters and crafting more items to clean up the last achievements, which got tedious. In hindsight, this game is probably best enjoyed casually, in smaller sessions, if you take your time over days and don’t focus on the grind, it might not bother you as much. The underlying gameplay is still addictive and satisfying in that familiar Hero of the Kingdom way, so I don’t want to sound too negative. In fact, I did enjoy the majority of the adventure and I recognize that the developers gave us a lot more content here. It took me significantly longer to finish Hero of the Kingdom III than the first two games combined, so you’re definitely getting a meatier experience for your money. The trade-off is that the game costs a bit more (its base price is higher than the earlier titles), but I’d say the extra content justifies it. Still, if you’re on a budget or unsure, I’d recommend picking it up during a sale. Overall, Hero of the Kingdom III is a rich and engaging casual RPG if you’re willing to embrace a bit of grind. It wraps up the trilogy by expanding the formula to its fullest, with a larger world, more skills, and more to do, even if it loses a bit of the simplicity and breezy pace that made the original so charming. Despite some frustrating grind in the late game, I really enjoyed my time with Hero of the Kingdom III . It’s a satisfying conclusion to the series and shows how far the concept has come. Just remember to bring your patience (and maybe a cup of tea) for those long crafting sessions, and you’ll find a lot to love in this final chapter of the Hero of the Kingdom saga. 8/10
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I liked it but it was not like the first 2 games. The first two were basically hidden object games with RPG elements. This was an RPG with hidden object elements. And since RPG is not really their thing this game was stretched out for some tremendous grinding. fortunately the game was user friendly and they had implement many systems that made the grind bearable. there was a design element of the game that allowed you to access all the merchants all over the game world (provided you had visited them). I call these vacation games. Games you take a break from the more hardcore games. It was fun.
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Hero of the Kingdom II How did I end up finding and playing this nice chillout game? I was looking for something to play with my son. This seemed to be a nice adventure game, where you explore various locations, listen to people and their troubles, complete simple quests, go into a dungeon or two and eventually become a hero and save a kingdom. It seemed like playing a fairytale for kids. And it delivers exactly that. I think it is a nice game for kids and will write about it as such. You never see your avatar, you are instead looking on the map and clicking on things that can be interacted with. That invokes a unique action based on the type of object. You get a text describing a situation, conversation… Art style tries to imitate drawing from a fairytale book. The map really looks like a rendered drawing on a parchment. Color palette favors bright tones, but caves and dungeons are exactly as they should be. Locations are various, filled with details to spot and click upon, collecting mushrooms, eggs…, spotting half covered crates, chests, pearls near the shore. Kids will get their exploration dopamin. Will care about country people, will help them with little troubles and will get renown and access to more troubling quests. Some involve fighting. But that is done in a very sensitive way. On the map, among other things, there's only a moving drawing of the creature and when engaged, your weapon's image will appear on top of the creature and will strike it 3 times. Dust will appear after each blow, the creature will make a sound and disappear from the map. No blood. The only thing my boy was sad about was hunting animals. Again there is a picture of an animal on map, when engaged arrows start to appear pointed to the animal with a woosh sound. Again they make a sound, disappear, no blood. You learn various talents. Everything has some form of achievement. Kids love those things, they feel rewarded for their effort and it works here well. Story is inspired by a Slovak fairytale called “Popolvar”. Involves a princess that was swayed by beauty of precious stone, thinking that ancient evil that produced it couldn’t certainly be so vile. She was wrong and ends up freeing him and dooming the entire kingdom to Earthquakers wrath. Our hero will start getting visions that will enable him to see what needs to be done to save the kingdom and princess. As the developers were doing more of these games, later titles became more user friendly. I remember that in the first game HotK1 you could spend a resource you would need for later quest, but here is nothing of that sort. You are free to use common resources as required by your play style.
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Hero of the Kingdom III is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.
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Hero of the Kingdom III received 1,143 positive votes out of a total of 1,458 achieving a rating of 7.52.
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Hero of the Kingdom III was developed and published by Lonely Troops.
Hero of the Kingdom III is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Hero of the Kingdom III is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Hero of the Kingdom III is playable and fully supported on Linux.
Hero of the Kingdom III is a single-player game.
Hero of the Kingdom III does not currently offer any DLC.
Hero of the Kingdom III does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Hero of the Kingdom III supports Remote Play on Phone and Remote Play on Tablet. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
Hero of the Kingdom III is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
5
Developer
Lonely Troops
Publisher
Lonely Troops
Release
30 Aug 2018
Platforms
Remote Play
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