The Settlers® : Heritage of Kings - History Edition

PLEASE BE WARNED this game requires a ubi soft account to play, this on its own is not too much of an issue, I lost my emails and they DO NOT accept steam as proof of purchase, I have lost all my games as I lost my old email address, DO NOT BUY.

such a masterpiece!

First, as i don't want to act as if ignoring it. Yes ubisoft connect is bugged and says you don't have a valid gamekey. this is not game specific and can happen with any ubisoft game any time when bought and launched through steam ( or other 3rd party probably but i only use steam). How to get around this and don't have the massive lag/stutters. 1. start game, log into ubisoft connect. 2. if laggy close game, log out off ubisoft connect just ignore the invalid key it a launcher bug. 3. log back in start game again. Should fix it, sadly you do have to do this almost everytime you want to start the game up and waste a few min on it. All other reviews about it not being a legit key is a lie, connect is just trash and has had this problem for a good while with many of their games. Now the game itself is everything i remember having a blast with it, once you get it running normally, everything is smooth and looks good. zooming out to much will sadly blind you with fog or make everything black.

This game is responsible for getting me into strategy and city builder/management games when I was just a child. It is in my opinion the best one out of The Settlers' franchise. I still have the CD but I'm glad to find it here with all the expansions. I can only recommend this often-forgotten gem. It's a shame you need Ubisoft's launcher as well but it is what it is.

Not a great Settlers, but it's fun and I absolutely loved it back in the 2000s.

Ubisoft launcher.