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Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Inspired by Majesty, Heroes of Orn: Darkness is a fantasy base building RTS with a twist - you cannot directly control your units. Build and upgrade your kingdom to gain power and resources. Influence your heroes' decisions and empower them by issuing quests, casting spells, and creating shops.
Free
Indie, Simulation, Strategy · More free games
In Heroes of Orn: Darkness, manage your kingdom's growth by issuing quests and casting spells to empower your heroes, all while avoiding the temptation to micromanage.
About this game
Heroes of Orn: Darkness is a fantasy base building RTS with a twist - you cannot directly control your units. Build and manage your kingdom and watch as your heroes explore, fight, and grow stronger.
Game Features
Game Features
- Build your kingdom. You can defend an area with a Guard Tower, increase your gold with a Marketplace, and provide new equipment to heroes with a Blacksmith. Many buildings can be built and upgraded to gain various benefits as you build up your power.
- Recruit heroes to fight for you. Heroes will make their own decisions but can be influenced by you. They will fight, do quests, shop, and take on dungeons. Your heroes will become more powerful in many ways: gaining increased stats, new abilities, new masteries, and more.
- Choose between different classes for your heroes. There are four starting hero classes to choose from, each with their own strengths: the Fighter, a tough and durable melee hero; the Scout, a quick and nimble hero that poisons with each attack; the Evoker, a powerful magic user that deals damage from a distance; and the Healer, a supportive magic user that can heal allies. As your heroes gain experience and level up, they can be upgraded into more powerful classes that are more specialized.
- Use quests to influence your heroes. Quests are a powerful tool for influencing your heroes' actions in Heroes of Orn: Darkness. By paying gold to start a quest, you can influence your heroes to explore an area, kill an enemy, defend a location, or escort a target. Completing these quests will earn your heroes the very gold you spent, which they can use to purchase upgrades. Quests provide a direct and engaging way to interact with your heroes and shape the course of your kingdom's growth.
- Research upgrades for your kingdom. The research system offers a diverse range of possible upgrades to improve your kingdom's economy, defenses, stats of your units, and more. These upgrades provide valuable utility to help your kingdom thrive, and can offer different playstyles depending on the choices you make. Researching upgrades requires mana, but the benefits can be substantial and are crucial to your kingdom's long-term success. Choose your upgrades wisely to shape the strengths of your kingdom and ensure its prosperity.
- Use spells to give yourself an advantage. The spells system allows you to cast a variety of spells to gain an advantage in combat or to aid your kingdom's development. You can purchase and cast spells that deal damage to enemies, buff your units, increase your resource production, and other effects. Using the multicast mechanic, you can quickly cast the same spell multiple times in a row, but at the cost of mana, a valuable resource.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 10
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 7 GB available space
Supported Languages
English*
*languages with full audio support
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Heroes of Orn: Darkness Demo Roadmap
Today I have updated the Heroes of Orn: Darkness demo to include a roadmap of what I have planned for future updates. This can be accessed from the Main Menu by clicking the 'Roadmap' button and it will also pop up automatically the first time you start up the game. Here is the current Roadmap. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44081106/bc82b33372c1437c2f812bebfbfb36437ccdefc3.png The Roadmap focuses more on big picture stuff, but balance changes, bug fixes, and other improvements will also be included in updates. As mentioned in the Roadmap, these details are subject to change in the future.Read full article on Community Announcements (BM Studios LLC)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Update - Mission Reward Fixes and Balance Changes
- Fixed a bug that prevented Heroes from receiving gold rewards when completing Missions. - Reduced Mission gold rewards by about 50% (though they were receiving none before, so overall this is a significant buff to passive gold gained by Heroes). - Mission reward bonus from upgrading Taverns increased from 15%/30%/45% to 20%/40%/60% for ranks 2, 3, and 4, respectively. - The Mission panel now correctly shows gold, experience, and renown rewards based on multipliers from Tavern rank and Custom Difficulty modifiers.Read full article on Community Announcements (BM Studios LLC)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Update - Performance Improvements
This small update includes optimizations that may modestly improve performance for some. Enjoy!Read full article on Community Announcements (BM Studios LLC)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Update - A Few Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that caused the Dungeon Guild Selection UI to not correctly save selected Guilds. - Fixed a bug that prevented the Highest Resolve option in the Dungeon Guild Selection UI from working as expected. - Fixed a bug that prevented Bounty Quests from being placed on enemies or enemy structures.Read full article on Community Announcements (BM Studios LLC)Patch NotesOfficial
Demo Update - Custom Difficulty, Terrain Upgrade, Key Rebindings, and More!
Hello! This update adds a new difficulty, the ability to rebind keys, some major upgrades to the terrain visuals, adds some quality of life to dungeons, and many other smaller changes. Custom Difficulty Custom Difficulty is a new difficulty option that lets you play the game however you want. There are over 25 different modifiers you can edit to make the game as easy, hard, or wacky as you want. These modifiers will allow you to change things like how much gold you receive from various sources, mana generation, core stats of characters and buildings, experience rates, enemy spawn rates, and more. Key Rebinding All keybinds can be remapped now. Just open the Pause Menu -> Settings -> Keybinds. Terrain Visual Improvements The terrain has been completely rebuilt using an improved system. The texturing on the terrain is now more varied and detailed. Grass, flowers, and other little details have been added to further improve the look. Here are some before and after images. Before {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44081106/51f5dbe3d4818ffce0ae45914e956ebc12b10fab.png After {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44081106/92da7269aea9e0df8a2bded991e5f8094b4cc417.png Before {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44081106/766465769e66554744fe68a6ff06835cd5628271.png After {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44081106/359b869629d9acf256a53327914d6717ab4119e8.png Before {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44081106/56428066b3b643419763680daca17a0cd694a40b.png After {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44081106/cb27e41a9d18f43dce53b07359e617636918007f.png The added details may affect performance for some people. Details can be turned down or off completely by going to Settings -> Graphics -> Terrain Details Dungeon Changes A few changes have been made to Dungeons. Dungeon QoL Once a Dungeon becomes available, you will have control on when you want to start a new Dungeon run. There is also an additional menu that lets you control which Guilds will be considered and how a Guild is selected. If you prefer to stick to a more passive approach, you can toggle Auto to ensure that Guilds autom...Read full article on Community Announcements (BM Studios LLC)
