Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes Reviews

Great strat game

The gameplay itself is fun - shame it's unstable as hell, crashes often, and is full of game-breaking bugs that cause the game to lock up. To make matters worse, whenever this game encounters a fatal error (which is every 10 hours or so), it causes almost all of the other applications running on my computer to crash as well - which is super annoying if you're the kind of gamer who likes to listen to streams or podcasts in the background while you game. Honestly it's shocking that the base price is still $25 despite being a 12-year-old game that's THIS poorly optimized. Still, if you have the patience to sit through all of the crashes, Fallen Enchantress does offer some pretty unique customization mechanics for heroes, units, and even cities that drastically affect gameplay and make it highly addictive if you're into min-maxing stuff. Otherwise, I've got some other recommendations below (although if you've managed to find this game, chances are pretty good you already know about of them) If you're looking for a good modern high fantasy 4x game, I strongly recommend trying Age of Wonders 4 instead - or if you're looking for an older title to run on a low-spec PC, get Warlock: Master of the Arcane. Seriously, Warlock is a full year older than Fallen Enchantress and is WAY better optimized with much higher production values despite being the same price and having similar system requirements. There's also a Warlock 2, but most players agree that the first game was better. If you're specifically looking for a 4x game that lets you make fully customizable franken-units like Fallen Enchantress does, give Age of Wonders: Planetfall or Endless Legend a spin :D

I didn't have the crashing issues others described, however I just didn't find the game fun. There are other strategy games that are more user friendly and outright better to buy instead.