[theoperagoer]

Heroes II was my personal favorite

[thriftwy]

There's fheroes2 for that, an open-source port which mirrors most of the features of HoMM3's HD Mod.

[bombcar]

It also brings “backwards” some of the QoL features of H3 which helps me, because starting on H3 means H2/1 always feel too Down Grady.

[marvin]

fheroes2 was great for getting me unstuck on a self-imposed exercise of reverse-engineering the Heroes2 binary data format some years ago :)

[nihilist_t21]

This is fantastic! I had no idea this project was a thing. While I love HoMM3 and the HD Mod/HoA, HoMM2 was the one I played first and will always be my favorite.

[mrits]

Broken Alliance map on Heroes II (was map from demo) is something I still pull out every year or so to sink a whole weekend on.

[Narann]

When H3 released, I expected H2 colored art with more pixels, but have been disappointed by the CG-like approach with undersaturated colors.

H2 keeps a hand colored vib.

[bluSCALE4]

Same. It was more polished than 3. Love everything about 2.