Disciples II: Rise of the Elves on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The award-winning series Disciples introduced a milestone in the game's very successful history; the introduction of a new race: The Elves. The Elven Race added a new dimension to the game and added countless hours of gameplay. Now that series has expanded further with Disciples II: Rise Of The Elves.

Disciples II: Rise of the Elves is a strategy, turn-based strategy and classic game developed by Strategy First and published by .
Released on July 06th 2006 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,306 reviews of which 1,135 were positive and 171 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 1.17€ on Steam with a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified Disciples II: Rise of the Elves into these genres:

Strategy Turn-Based Strategy Classic Turn-Based Fantasy Dark Fantasy Atmospheric Dwarf RPG Great Soundtrack Old School Nostalgia

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System requirements

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Windows

Minimum Configuration: Windows XP, Pentium II 233 Mhz, 32 Mb RAM, 1200 MB hard disk space, DirectX 7.1, 16-bit sound card, Video Card with 8 MB RAM

Recommended Configuration: Windows XP, Pentium II 300 Mhz, 64 MB RAM, 1400 MB hard disk space, DirectX 7.1, 16-bit sound card, Video Card with 16 MB RAM

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Jan. 2025

A great expansion of the original Disciples II. The major novelty is a new playable Elven race, along with new campaigns. Recommend it with confidence. I myself finished all the campaigns and all the default maps.

Dec. 2024

WARNING Some players may encounter difficulties with running the game nowadays but it can be solved in 3 minutes at worst. Just refer to the discussions tab and you'll find any solution you need. Personally I recommend you to use "Disciples I & II OpenGL Wrapper" because it is very easy to use and solves the most technical problems. REVIEW If it was a modern game then it would be a DLC for sure. The Rise of the Elves (ROTE) not only adds a new race but several updates of graphics, arts and mechanics which makes saves from The Disciples II: Gallean's Return (GR) sometimes unable to work so I recommend you to play everything but Elvens' campaign in the GR (my review of GR: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198075304418/recommended/1640/). Anyway the game is great, redesigns are fresh and likeable. I beat it on the highest difficulty but the beginning was a slightly more boring than other races' because Elves are really weak in my opinion so I spent a lot of time to develop my main character. Not many evolution options are available for melee units which seems unbalanced because range ones are thin even in the late game. Fortunately Centaur Lancer has solid initial stats with XP ceiling of 145 so you can simply lock him and get a very tanky front line really fast and this is how I played. However I tried upgraded ones in the first two missions and realized it's not worth it. Healer units are worse than Empire ones in terms of HP and healing potential but have Elemental ward buff which is maybe great in PvP but almost useless in the campaign. Spell book has a lot of debuffs and very few buffs which makes Elves look like Hordes or Legions. This is weird and feels unsuitable lore-wise. Moreover, these rare buffs are laughable comparing to Empire's or Clans'. There are more observations but I think you get my point that some balance update would be great but seems impossible nowadays. ROTE has much deeper story development. It tries to put together previous plots and I can say it's quite a success. Thus it's important to play The Elven Alliance last. You can find a recommended order in my GR review through the link above. By the way, the whole Nevendaar's history is told by Ewollin the Storyteller in the final mission. If you find him he will tell you a story every day 6 days in a row. Be warned that if you forget to trigger him in one of the days you will lose a story. The Rise of the Elves is an integral part of whole Disciples II game thus considering it separately is stupid. The game is a masterpiece, just download and play it right now. No reasons to postpone getting your 10/10 experience.

Nov. 2024

Doomdrakes are raining from sky and eating my cities. Wyrms walking around like who care about it. If you want to feel alive like in real world you can try campaign its even more depressive and desperate. Your hero is challenged with thug and then killed with spells and hunted meanwhile casting storms on your slow army running away :D. Dwarfs are drinking blood from my angel and breaking all time diplomacy if they see my angel, spiders are trying to drink blood from my angel too and running like crazy...

Oct. 2024

One of the greatest turn-based strategy games featuring turn-based battles, and probably the best installment of the Disciples series, an upgrade of Gallean's Return, and a sequel of one of my fave childhood games. Nonetheless, the worst facet of it (just like the rest of series) is random number goddess's whims. Battles sometimes rely far too much on mere chance. Other than that, great. 10/10.

Sept. 2024

Amazing classic. Played this game when it was new, and have picked it up many times again over the years. Love the progressive troop/hero leveling & TBS aspects of this game. Would recommend to anyone!

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-80% 5.89€ 1.17€

8.3

1,135

171

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Strategy First

Release 06 Jul 2006

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