King's Bounty: Dark Side
Fulqrum Publishing · 2014 · RPG, Strategy, Turn-Based Strategy, Hex Grid, Turn-Based
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About King's Bounty: Dark Side
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Lead one of three dark heroes—an Orc warlord, Vampire lord, or Demoness—through turn-based tactical battles and a massive world of quests as you command dark armies and embrace forbidden powers from the villain's perspective. King's Bounty: Dark Side flips the series formula by letting you experience the story from the other side, with new units, abilities, and over 100 quests that reshape how you approach strategy and exploration.
King’s Bounty: Dark Side is a standalone entry in the King’s Bounty series that turns the familiar fantasy world on its head. Instead of fighting against darkness, you take control of it — experiencing the story from the side of villains, outcasts, and forbidden powers.Choose one of three unique dark heroes: an Orc warlord, a Vampire lord, or a Demoness. Each character offers a distinct starting point, personal storyline, and playstyle, shaping how you explore the world, build your army, and approach combat. Their journeys intersect with familiar factions — but this time, the forces of light stand in your way.Exploration unfolds across a large world filled with hostile territories, dangerous creatures, and morally dark choices. Towns, wilderness, and dungeons are packed with quests, secrets, and powerful artifacts, encouraging careful planning and risk-taking as you grow stronger.Combat follows the classic King’s Bounty formula with deep, turn-based tactical battles. Positioning, morale, unit abilities, and spell timing remain crucial, while new dark-themed units, abilities, and spells introduce fresh tactical possibilities. Battles reward preparation and smart decisions rather than brute force.
Dark Side expands progression with new companions, artifacts, and mechanics tied to each hero’s dark origin. Army composition and long-term planning play a central role as enemies grow stronger and encounters become more demanding.By shifting perspective and embracing darker factions, King’s Bounty: Dark Side offers a familiar tactical experience with a distinctly different tone — challenging players to rethink their strategies and explore the world of King’s Bounty from an entirely new angle.
Dark Side expands progression with new companions, artifacts, and mechanics tied to each hero’s dark origin. Army composition and long-term planning play a central role as enemies grow stronger and encounters become more demanding.By shifting perspective and embracing darker factions, King’s Bounty: Dark Side offers a familiar tactical experience with a distinctly different tone — challenging players to rethink their strategies and explore the world of King’s Bounty from an entirely new angle.
- Three dark heroes with unique companion systems
- New battle companion
- New dark-themed units, artifacts, and Rage abilities
- Over 100 new quests and 15 new locations
- A darker perspective on the King’s Bounty world
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What Steam players say
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King's Bountry: Dark Side is a tactical RPG that is best described as Heroes of Might and Magic, but you only play as a single hero. I didn't spend a lot of time with this one but it's clear that by this point the series was in trouble. The first two games were great, Warriors of the North had issues but still had enough of the old game's magic. This one is just embarassing, it feels like amateur mod making you realize how much work went into previous games. Like the map design: only when you see flat barren corridor-like maps of this game you realize how beautiful hand-crafted maps of the previous games were. The writing is so atrociously bad and edgy that it's repulsive, which is especially surprising to me, because the writing was always just a cheap Terry Pratchett copycat in this series, I didn't think it was an important part of the experience, but now I know it was. There are new units here and they're hard to distinguish color swaps. It's sad, really. Thankfully, all the previous games are good and highly replayable - even The Legend recently got a patch making it convinient to play. And those games were probably already too big for their own good. So do yourself a favor,…8 found this helpful
Old game, but tactic is still fun to play with, Spin ur mind to pass the tough game.2 found this helpful
I have three big pet peeves with this one: 1. Quests are very, very annoying. For whatever reason, they are never straightforward. Ever. Instead of an interesting story and maybe giving a player the choice of doing it the right way or the lying conniving way (after all, you're the dark overlord, beware, maidens and peasants!), it's just 20 steps of going back and forth between the same places, and then gathering some flowers. Evil overlord. Going around gathering flowers. And it's all sprinkled with cringeworthy dialogue, like "of course I won't be honoring our agreement! Can't you see I'm evil! Gya!". No inspiration whatsoever. And then while you roll your eyes and skip all the dialogue, your realise that you accidentally accepted some side quest and all the instructions for it were in said dialogue, including where to go and what to find, while in the quest tree it says: "bring Bolo the Orc cooking manual". What. 2. The maps are empty. Like, really empty. I got to continent Aranal (or whatever it's name), and it's just... huge forest. With two people living in it, no joke. No shops, nothing. Just a lot of generic enemies, a quests about eggs and mushrooms and a girl that will …
Quite bad compared to the other entries of the series
Praise of evil
Great game for Heroesish style game and the story is great, I love this game!
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