Villagers and Heroes

Villagers & Heroes is a free-to-play online massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) created by American developer Mad Otter Games. Originally titled A Mystical Land, it was released on October 27, 2011 as a multi-platform game using the Portalarium Player-Plug-In by Richard Garriott's social media games start-up Portalarium, it was later replaced by a standalone C++ client using the Torque-3D engine. After announcing a name change to Villagers & Heroes on May 15, 2013 and having been greenlighted on December 5, 2013, the game was launched on Valves Steam platform on April 17, 2014 together with its first expansion called The Fury of the Stone Lord. Villagers & Heroes then went multi-platform by releasing a mobile port for Android on October 25, 2016 and for iOS on February 26, 2018. Players play with all clients on the same server, there are only different servers for different regions like United States, Europe or Latin America, and players can seamlessly switch between different gaming devices in different game sessions. As of December 2024, Villagers and Heroes has been installed more than 1 million times on Android devices and over 500,000 times on Steam. In total, over 4 million accounts were registered across all platforms. The game is still in active development on all platforms and the latest of what is now 10 expansions, called “The Crux”, was recently published on October 27, 2024. Additional expansions and content upgrades have already been announced.