Necropolis town screen: Haunt's Wind

Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition · City & Base Management

About this game

Developer: Dotemu · Publisher: Ubisoft Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: HD-2D & retro 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

The town as a diorama with a spreadsheet underneath: the Necropolis skyline is the reward for building, and the panel below it is the accounting — growth per creature per week, gold on hand, and the garrison that says who is home. The cursor resting on the Mage Guild tower is the whole interaction model in one pixel: every building in the painting is a button. Frame at 42.0s in Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD - Launch_US (Steam). No trailer burn-in, caption, or logo on this frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

master-detail slot-grid stat-panel cost-list bottom-dock top-bar

Components

Parts on screen.

Grid Resource bar Clock Slots Portrait Nameplate

Screen inventory

the Necropolis town view: skyline, obelisk, graveyard and Mage Guild tower
a town panel titled Haunt's Wind with a building grid and growth figures +45, +25, +21, +12, +9, +6, +3 and 9000 gold
a garrison row holding Rosic plus seven creature stacks
a status line reading Necromancy Amplifier
a resource bar reading 141 wood, 109 ore, 145 mercury, 106 sulfur, 110 crystal, 114 gems, 295490 gold
a date reading Month: 1, Week: 3, Day: 1 and a checkmark button

Top 3 colors

#532718 24%#25231f 19%#34342f 19%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Dotemu / Ubisoft Entertainment, Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition screenshot: Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition - Heroes of Might & Magic III - HD - Launch_US (Steam) — Dotemu / Ubisoft, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Ubisoft Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: full-res 1920x1080 review; town view, Haunt's Wind panel, growth figures, garrison row, Necromancy Amplifier status line, resource bar and date legible; settled-hold aHash+dHash dists 248 (41.5s, mid-wipe in from the adventure map) and 4 (42.5s); the town is settled from 42.0s until the Mage Guild cut at 43s; aHash+dHash 178 vs nearest manifest item (citizen-sleeper-4); keeper-vs-keeper distances 217-298; no Heroes of Might and Magic III entry in manifest (1331 items).

No direct Dotemu video-use policy found and no live Ubisoft video-use policy found (searched 2026-11-06). Ubisoft's old standalone video policy page (help.ubi.com/video) now redirects to the Ubisoft homepage; the policy text survives only in a secondary source, theaveragegamer.com (Dec 2013): free to make videos (walkthroughs, Let's Plays, reviews) with Ubisoft game content, do not distribute assets separately, non-commercial use unless approved, do not charge viewers, do not sell or license videos, YouTube Partner Program monetization allowed, violations may lead to removal. Secondary, thirteen years old, not a live official page. Ubisoft's current Terms of Use (https://www.ubisoft.com/legal/documents/termsofuse/en-US, verified live 2026-11-06) bars infringing content but contains no creator/video-use permission. A Steam EULA result surfaced in the Dotemu search (eula/657900_eula_0) cannot be attributed to Dotemu or this game (appid 657900 returns success:false from appdetails) and is not relied on. No Heroes of Might and Magic III - HD Edition-specific fan-content guidelines found. Partial fit, stated plainly: the historical policy covers gameplay videos by individual users, not stills from official trailers on a fan study site. Fair-use fallback for Phase-2: frames are stills from the official Steam trailers, each with a study note (commentary), unofficial, not endorsed, copyright (c) Dotemu / Ubisoft, takedown honoured within 48h. Note: the underlying 1999 original is New World Computing (3DO, defunct) art and design, remastered by Dotemu for Ubisoft — a third rights layer that does not change the fallback.

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.