No matter which class you choose, you start building up your castle by adding different buildings to acquire different units for your army. Your class choice has different strengths/weaknesses and offers different classes of heroes and castles. In this turn-based strategy game the player takes on the role of one of four different heroes: the warlock, sorceress, barbarian, or knight. The characters are also derived from the Might and Magic series that NWC created.
This game is strongly based on King's Bounty, another game by New World Computing. Heroes of Might and Magic is a fantasy role-playing game developed and published by New World Computing in 1995 for DOS.