Later on when you finish the campaign try the sandbox mode and you will definitely get a fair shair of gameplay :) I personally love the Cretans most but the Athenians can be a pain in the butt (raiders).

Interesting I really liked the first game, not so much the second. Pity it's not coming to gog as such a move would help many people check these games out/ know about them.

I haven't had the time to follow this, and I am really saddened to know that. Longbow Games were one of the very promising Wargames' independant studios aside the big publisher ones (Paradox, Slitherine, SEGA, 2K, KOEI). Everyone is following the Steam path.

The only ones still having new DRM lite games are Slitherine, and while I trust them to look carefully at their anti-Steam old guard, since they have games on Steam, I fear the day they go like Paradox. Hopefully, it will never happen.

But, like it goes, the wargamers who don't want to play nor buy on Steam will be force to quit PC gaming and to coming back to boardgames. Or going retrogaming. And retrogaming by their own ways, lurking for old boxes.

It seems like Hegemony 3 did receive a DRM-Free version, after all. On the Humble Store.

Sorry to revive this thread, but it's probably better than to create a new one just for a piece of news.

The Humble version ( DRM free) is now updated to 3.1.1. , including the latest expansion for the game thus.

It's well worth it, especially if you can get it during a sale, whatever GOG thinks of it being too "niche" a game ( shame on you, GOG. There are quite a few other things here I'd qualify as "too niche" before coming to H3 ) .