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Nival / Feb 13, 2014 / Strategy
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Four races of wizards, adepts of four magical schools, collide in a brutal fight for world domination. Etherlords, an iconic strategy created by Nival, became a bestseller in the world and earned highest grades from critics.Etherlords is an exciting mix of turn-based strategy and fantasy trading card game.
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36% positive, 113 reviews
I really hope this game will make a comeback as Etherlords 3, with many campaigns that players can enjoy. This game is truly one of the greatest and most unique games ever made, and even to this day, I haven’t found another game that can really match it. The card-based battles, the fantasy world, and the way the characters and creatures are based on different elements from the world around us make Etherlords...
0 found this helpful, 2026-09-16
Does not work on a Windows 10 computer.
0 found this helpful, 2026-09-23
Russia's Heroes of Might and Magic. This is the game that landed Nival the job developing HoMM5. The similarities are hard to ignore. Visually, you'd struggle to tell the difference, perhaps except for the much darker color palette. The interface is very similar too, the circular action-menu, the chunky buttons. In terms of the gameplay there's plenty of differences though. Just like in HoMM you have castles and...
1 found this helpful, 2026-08-15
My playtime says 10 minutes, but I have played over 8 hours ( I've been running it from the .exe directly which Steam doesn't log for DRM Free games) I've bought the game out of nostalgia, and let me tell you, it was a big mistake. My idea of it was heavily embelished by the fact I had only berely tried it at the time. This game didn't aged well at all, and you can see it in the many issues, the smallest of which...
3 found this helpful, 2026-04-22
Get the game working properly with these few steps https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2689529265 I love having a new card game to explore, though I think the multiplayer-oriented design doesn't always apply well to the singleplayer campaign (which is probably the main thing you'd play). The game features a lot of RNG to keep you on your toes, but in the campaign, if one of your heroes dies,...
1 found this helpful, 2026-04-11
Etherlords, developed and published by Nival, is one of those rare strategy games that feels genuinely experimental, even years after its release. It attempts to fuse two complex systems—turn-based map strategy and collectible card-style combat—into a single cohesive experience. The result is a game that doesn’t always flow perfectly, but remains memorable for how boldly it blends its ideas. Rather than following a...
3 found this helpful, 2026-04-08
Basically, if you don't mind doing a little workaround to get it to run and you like strategy games where you summon monsters and cast spells and it doesn't bother you if it is from 2001, then you may well like this game. Using Win7 64-bit initially the game kept crashing every 2 minutes so I checked the Community and learned to get it to run you need to run the game directly from the exe (default:...
135 found this helpful, 2014-03-06
Etherlords is a strategy defense combined with a neat and challenging card game combat hailing from Nival Interactive, a small Russian development team that will take on the formidable feat of developing Heroes of Might and Magic V, eventually later on. As a side note, alongside its quite improved sequel Etherlords II, the game holds a special place for me; meaning many frustrating hours of deck building and combat...
64 found this helpful, 2016-01-14
One of the old school classics. Since the game was developed by Nival (Russian based), western market might not be familiar with the game. However there are few points why you might be interested to play this game even though it has been 13 years since it was released: - Game is Hard. No kidding, even normal difficulty will have you thinking over on what kind of strategy and builds you must use to win every...
28 found this helpful, 2014-08-02
I run this game on window 7 64 bit and it was freeze every few minutes. After searching the solutions on the steam comunity and try to implement i can play the game without any issue now. If you guys have same problems you can try these steps: 1) install XNA: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914 2) Go to steam folder/steamapps/common/Etherlords 3) Right click on Etherlords.exe ->...
13 found this helpful, 2016-12-01