VCMI for Android

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 :( .

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.

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

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.

Looks very promising, but crashes constantly. Heroes III is one of my all time favorites, I hope they can make it more stable eventually. Unfortunately it almost always crashes in my first battle.

Works mostly correct, relative mode pointer have one little problem — it does LMB click first when you touch screen to move it (Xiaomi Mi Max 2). Didn't expect AI works correct but it does. Only need random map generator to work. Thank you!

I would pay money for a functioning shell. ($1-$5 would sell like hot cakes) game cost $3 for gog files. <$10 total for a 100% working game. Please please fix. The duplicate boxes on the side are killing me : somone said they were able to load a mod to fix it, but did not say what mod.

It works! Unfortunately you cannot change resolution but cannot have it all i guess. One problem that i am having is that once you complete first mission on campaign it wont load the second...:( any ideas?

An amazing piece of software. Kinda rought arround the edges and I still dont understand the 127.0.0.1 connection while im not even connected to wifi. But regardless, an amazing emulator.

I love the idea . I would like to help on the project , but you don't document how to compile for Android nor do you allow for issues to be opened. I would like to fix the resolution bugs , but you are not making this easy for contribution.

I wish I knew how to code so that I could contribute to this project. It's still young and buggy, but damn, playing this on a Galaxy S6, while impossible due to the small screen, is still beyond entertaining. Great job, devs!

Still a lot of work to do. Really the screen resolution is a really annoying. Also on the first campain mission after few moves it kick me out from the game.

10/5 for idea, but it only shows on 2/3 of my screen, with sides being just random pixels dancing around, also can not change the resolution, hoping ure still working on this :)

Very cool to play HoMM3 on my mobile! Still needs some work but overall very cool. P.s. for those who can't load games / get a connect to host screen, disable your WiFi and mobile internet. This worked for me!

i get some strange borders on left and right side and i can t change the game s graphics on heroes 3 but at least it's working... i can play without any issues...

The sides constantly flashes for anything wider than 4:3, making it very unplayable. Hope devs add support for 16:9 to newer 21:9 screen ratios.

Love the effort, but its pretty hard to play on a phone. I still haven't found a way to do right click. Also crashes a lot.

I installed the app and it crashes when I try to launch the game. A game that doesn't even start up deserved a 0/5 rating.

great job werry well well done I waited this update since 2 years and now its fixt the hole game and i can play it thats mke me happy to play my favorite game maibe we can have better resolution but whatever the game is ok 10x VCMI Team and dont forget keep updating !!!

Top notch!!!! Does exactly what it says, no complaints so far. Now only to find something similar for Fallout 2 and I'll be happy man 😆

Changed a few things around. And it ran a full game. Would recommend especially if it continues development

On note9 it works great but how i press the right mouse button ( i try to hold in place. try 2 fingers. touch)

Not working on galaxy note 9. Yes I did copy the heroes 3 files. It's crashing when I press "start vmci"