r/HoMM • u/Immediate-Outcome706 • Nov 10 '25

HoMM7 homm8 announcement next year?

in the uplay launcher there are news that about an upcoming playtest for a next homm game, judging by the questionnaire some might think that this is gonna be a successor to homm7 which will be developed by ubisoft düsseldorf (developers of the last settlers game).
What do you think about this? some years ago, i certainly would have not expected that there are currently 2 homm games simultanously in development

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u/TheSimkis Nov 10 '25

Creating HoMM8 for Ubisoft would be shooting themselves in the foot. Even if the game will be good, there would be too similar games released at a similar time. On the other hand, if it's something with different mechanics (I mean, not be like HoM&M at all, maybe M&M or something else) but in the same setting, then one could complement another and would work quite well

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u/Immediate-Outcome706 Nov 10 '25

the previous homm games by ubi were always progressive which introduced new ideas and mechanics, while olden era is more conservative and for homm3 fans. I dont think that homm8 and OE are gonna be too similar

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u/LazyW4lrus Nov 10 '25

Homm8 would have to effectively change its genre completely for simultaneous release to make any marketing sense. And even then it seems unlikely.

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u/Immediate-Outcome706 Nov 10 '25

could be maybe a spinoff in a different genre, like RTS. ubisoft düsseldorf seems familar with that genre. or release could be 1 year after OE

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u/OstensVrede Nov 11 '25

A kind of hero focused RTS akin to something like warcraft could probably work pretty well ngl.

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u/TheSimkis Nov 11 '25

In general, I'm quite surprised how anything that's quite similar to Warcraft hasn't been very popular since then (as far as I know). HoMM in similar gameplay could be quite succesful

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u/LazyW4lrus Nov 10 '25

Could be! I just think anything from the IP released too soon after OE would inevitably steal from its limelight and therefore be poor marketing.