
There are 10 games in the series, consisting of:

The games also maintain a committed fanbase, which has spawned several modifications and total conversions including Might and Magic: Swords of Xeen, Might and Magic Tribute: Book of Ceth and Might and Magic VI: The Chaos Conspiracy. In 2009, the first six RPGs was on the Good Old Games digital download service followed by remaining titles of the original series. Financially, the series achieved success, having sold in excess of 3.5 million copies by 1999 alongside Heroes of Might and Magic. In each of the games, a party of characters fights monsters and completes quests on one of the Ancients' colonized planets, eventually becoming involved in the Ancients' affairs.Īlthough the first seven installments were received positively, it was considered that the series entered a decline with its latest entries Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer and Might and Magic IX mainly due to pressure from and financial problems in the 3DO company. The storyline follows the search for a powerful "progenitor race" of space-travellers known only as the Ancients. All the games - primarily turn-based until 1998's Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven - feature a party of user-generated characters, the same base statistics, and common interactive elements including their towns, monsters, quests, dungeons, time progression and skill systems. The first entry, Might and Magic Book One: The Secret of the Inner Sanctum, was first released in 1986, while the most recent game, Might and Magic IX, was released on 29 March 2002, the next release, Might & Magic X: Legacy was released on 23 January 2014 as a reboot of series set in Ashan world.Įach Might and Magic RPG consists of a full free-roaming gameworld set in a first-person perspective, and the series shares a continuous storyline and universe. Their success generated multiple spinoffs, including Heroes of Might and Magic, King's Bounty and the Ardon series. The Might and Magic RPGs were the original installments in the Might and Magic franchise, and are considered one of the defining examples of early computer role-playing games, along with the Ultima, The Bard's Tale and Wizardry series. Consisting of nine entries, the series was created and produced by Jon Van Caneghem. The Might and Magic RPGs (formally named Might and Magic) are a series of nine computer role-playing games developed and published by New World Computing until 1996, after which point The 3DO Company assumed the role of publisher.


Do you have the might to emerge victorious? Only time will tell." Challenging quests abound and battles innumerable must be fought.
