Bit of a rant. Feel free to skip to the bottom if it's tl;dl.
As you may know, I love medieval fantasy. I enjoy Warcraft and World of Warcraft, but MMOs are too big a time-suck for me, and I'm not a big fan of real time strategy, because I can't keep up with the pace. I like games that let me take my time and play at my own pace. But no one seems to make turn-based fantasy games anymore. Well, almost no one.
Some of my favorite games of all time were Heroes of Might and Magic. I had parts 3 and 4, and I loved them. They were turn-based, so I could take my time, and I could play for just a half hour or an hour if I didn't have a lot of time to kill. They had a great mix of town-building war strategy elements and exploration/monster-hunting/treasure-hunting RPG style elements. And they had multiple factions to play as, each with a different set of creatures to build your army out of. (The necromancers were fun)
They were ALMOST the perfect games for me. There were some problems with the gameplay and interface that made them less than great, which was kind of frustrating. A bad game is forgettable, but a good game that could have been great but for a few fixable problems is pretty grating. But since the overall style and gameplay fit me so well, they're still some of my fondest game memories.
Heroes 6 came out recently, but it's not available for Mac. I almost bought an old copy of Heroes 5 the other day, but I read that it requires registration, which doesn't work anymore because the game's no longer supported. I've got an overwhelming craving to play one of these games again, but the universe (and the company that makes them) doesn't want to let me.
End of tl;dr
Does anyone know of any good fantasy games for the Mac that let you play at your own pace (turn-based or similar)? Anything similar to what I've described above?
