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Latest revision as of 22:34, 8 January 2024

Hero of the Kingdom II
Hero of the Kingdom II cover
Developers
Lonely Troops
Release dates
Windows February 20, 2015
macOS (OS X) July 7, 2015[1]
Linux May 27, 2015[2]
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer
Perspectives Isometric, Bird's-eye view, Flip screen
Controls Point and select
Genres Adventure
Themes Fantasy
Series Hero of the Kingdom
Hero of the Kingdom II on HowLongToBeat
Hero of the Kingdom II on IGDB
Hero of the Kingdom II on MobyGames
Hero of the Kingdom
Hero of the Kingdom 2012
Hero of the Kingdom II 2015
Hero of the Kingdom III 2018
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1 2020
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2 2021
Hero of the Kingdom IV TBA

Hero of the Kingdom II is a singleplayer isometric, bird's-eye view and flip screen adventure game in the Hero of the Kingdom series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for the game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
GOG.com
DRM-free
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux
Mac App Store
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macOS (OS X)
Microsoft Store
Microsoft Store
Windows
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Demo

A demo is available from Steam. Three locations are available.

Monetization

Type Notes
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type Notes
No microtransactions None

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

Sound volume settings are stored in the save file, language in the StartLanguage.str file, windowed state in the StartWindowed.flg file.
System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Lonely Troops\Hero of the Kingdom II\
Microsoft Store
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\346560\remote\
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Lonely Troops/Hero of the Kingdom II/
This game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Lonely Troops\Hero of the Kingdom II\Save.dat
Microsoft Store
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\346560\remote\Save.dat
macOS (OS X)
Linux $XDG_DATA_HOME/Lonely Troops/Hero of the Kingdom II/Save.dat

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings
General settings

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Static aspect 16:9
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Upscaled from a lower resolution.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Fullscreen is always borderless.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
High-fidelity upscaling
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
Special effects like fountain water update every frame. Hand-drawn animations update at around 10 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Effects, Environment, Music
Surround sound
Subtitles
All speech is text-based.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio
Language selection
Language selection

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Slovak
Spanish
Turkish
Ukrainian

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL
OS X and Linux only.
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 280 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0 compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.6 Snow Leopard
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 280 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.
Linux
Minimum
Operating system (OS) Steam compatible Linux distribution
Processor (CPU) 1.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 280 MB
Video card (GPU) 128 MB of VRAM
OpenGL 2.0 compatible
A 64-bit operating system is required.


References