VCMI for Android

A Google user

After figuring out how to make it work it's rather buggy but playable. I can at least play one game when I load it but if I try to load a new mission, back out to main menu to play a new game or just loading a previous game it always crash it. Which means the campaign is unplayable past the first level (fixing this would make app 5 stars). Another minor annoying bug is I can't resize the screen it to my phone's resolution which results in distracting visual artifacts on the sides. Game is fun.

A Google user

Amazing project. It's bit buggy, but the five stars are for the effort put in here. I can actually play Heroes 3 on my pixel 2 with relative ease. There's just one problem -- the game crashes when I complete a campaign mission, so I can't advance past the first map.

A Google user

A port of HoMM3 to android, so that it can be played on a mobile phone? Yes please, great! However, it works far from perfect, and these are some of the issues I've encountered: (1) Opening New Game >> Single Scenario, it open a network connecting box for a fragment of a second. OK, I guess? If I cancel and try doing it again, it opens again, but gets stuck. (2) Random maps are being generated, but coming a 'Could not create a random map that fits current choices.', which sort of hurts since I play pretty much exclusively random maps. Maps are being generated and can be copied into the maps folder and then played however, I do believe. (3) The game is running pretty slow. I know, it's a port of a PC game to a mobile phone - but still, it's a very old game which never required super specs, and not that bad phone. At least it runs, so that's good! (4) This may be phone specific - I have the normal game screen in the middle, on the left of it I have an extra slice of the right side of the screen, and on the right an extra slice of the left side of the screen. Those slices also know to flicker, which gets a bit annoying. Could be caused by weird screen resolution - I have Pocophone F1? Overall, app has a bunch of problems - and yet, it's free and it does what it's supposed to do - make HoMM3 playable on Android. P.S. on the note of (2) - maps are not generated, at least not consistently. Still, can generate them on PC and then copy.

Victor Scheffers

Only scenarios work, campaign freezes after the end of the first scenario. Map generation doesn't work. There weird things going on when you want to load or start a game, somehow less things work, and more is broken since last time I played a few years ago. Isn't development supposed to work the other way around? Other than all that, heroes on your phone, what's not to like.

A Google user

Update: Samsung Note 10+. Can't change resolution, always 800x600 (mod fixes it) and a bit choppy animation of heroes riding in a world map. Touch screen for tactical combat is not very comfortable, sometimes you move to a hex instead of attacking an enemy (not a problem with s pen). When a window opens where you need to change numbers a keyboard always pops up and blocks view even if I can use slider to do that (after a while it gets really annoying). Other then that, port is great!

vitaly lifshits

First of all it's a very nice intiative to make HOMM 3 to work on Android, and Linux. This is the first and best reason to give this 5 stars. However there are still some bugs that needs to be fixed, like passing levels in the campaign, or other stuff the involves working with the server. I really hope the developers are debugging all these issues.

Juliusz Sedzikowski

The game seems to work well, but for some reason arroe towers always focus the catapult. On top of that, it's impossible to see what troops garrisons and heroes have. Additionaly, it's impossible to change your mind from casting a spell or see spell description. The combat is good, however you can't really control where you're attacking from which greatly destroy a lot of heroed 3 experience. You could do it the way Heroes 3 battles did it. 4 stars because heroes 3 works on my phone.

Alan James Saldana

On launch, display renders incorrectly on Android 9 especially on full screen phones like Samsung's latest A series, and Note 10. It displays the main screen in a "box" but duplicates the screen on the sides as a tile just to fill the whole screen. I am really hoping that the devs can fix this as this app seemed to have been abandoned :( .

Maoz Schory

Tbh, i have no idea how difficult it is to fix the issues I'm about to list here so I'll give it four instead of two stars coz it did work pretty well on my previous device but now i face some very irritating problems like a resolution bug where fractions of my screen double themselves neer the edges or mods (new maps and towns) cause the game to not work properly. I really hope you'd fix those issues asap

A Google user

Doesn't work correctly Note 10+. When launching game there is viewable portion in center where I can get into the game. However the left and right sides of screen show a chopped off portion of game screen. Like if you cut the screen into 3 pieces then swapped the left and right sides. Changing resolution didn't help and all files are in folder. Restarted phone and also made sure not on full screen mode and still messed up. Game us virtually unplayable now.