VCMI is an open-source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic III with new possibilities. Years of intensive work resulted in an impressive amount of features. Among the current features are:
- Complete gameplay mechanics
- Almost all objects, abilities, spells and other content
- Basic battle AI and adventure AI
- Many GUI improvements: high resolutions, stack queue, creature window
- Advanced and easy mod support - add new towns, creatures, heroes, artifacts and spells without limits or conflicts
- Launcher for easy configuration - download mods from our server and install them immediately!
- Random map generator that supports objects added by mods
Note: In order to play the game using VCMI you need to own data files for Heroes of Might and Magic III: The Shadow of Death.
If you want help, please check our forum, bug tracker or GitHub page.
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Observed history
| App | Change | Version | When ↓ |
|---|---|---|---|
| updated | 1.7.5 | 9 Oct 2026 |
Upstream releases
Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.
1.7.514 Aug 2026
Stability
- Fix possible crash on starting random map with random number of players
- Fixed crash on updating a mod in which mod description file has been removed
- Block special creatures from being selected for special weeks even if they are marked as allowed to prevent crash
- Fixed crash on failure to load H3 bitmap font, in favor of using true type font provided by VCMI
- Fixed possible crash on starting a save with eliminated human player
- Fixed possible crash on Android on displaying message boxes when VCMI is inactive
- Game will now stop video playback on stream corruption instead of crashing
- Fixed failure to open .zip archive on systems that use minizip-ng library, such as Fedora
- Fixed crash on attempt to create zero-sized slider
- Fixed crash on right-clicking on configurable map object with empty config
- Fixed several possible crashes on shutdown
- Fix potential crash due to use-after-free in movement animation
- Fix possible crash on hero with invalid starting army escaping a battle
- Fix concurrency race in NKAI’s
- Fixed crash on manual import of mod with unsatisfied deppendency
- Fix crash on having ADVANCED_NECROMANCY bonus when loading game started in 1.6 release
- Fix possible crash on object fade-out
Other
- Do not allow targeting unavailable hexes with area attacks
- Fix saving of server port number
1.7.417 May 2026
No release notes supplied.
1.7.327 Feb 2026
No release notes supplied.
1.7.213 Feb 2026
No release notes supplied.