# Install fheroes2 with Homebrew

Recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine. Version 1.1.17 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-30.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:fheroes2
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install fheroes2
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:fheroes2
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1.17
- **Source summary:** Recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II game engine
- **Homepage:** <https://ihhub.github.io/fheroes2/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-30T15:25:52Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- fheroes2 (alias)
- fheroes2-extract-resources (alias)
- fheroes2-install-demo (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.1.17
## Project history and usage

fheroes2 is an open-source recreation of the Heroes of Might and Magic II engine. It aims to reproduce the original game while adding modern fixes and improvements such as higher-resolution graphics support, improved AI, gameplay and logic fixes, and user-interface improvements.

### Project history

The project README says fheroes2 was initially developed on SourceForge. The modern GitHub repository was created in August 2019 and became the center for development, releases, documentation, CI, translations, and website work.

The project is written from scratch and does not provide the original commercial game assets. Its README is explicit that the rights to the original game and resources belong to Ubisoft through the former 3DO Company lineage, and it advises users to buy the original game or use the free demo resources.

The GitHub release stream shows active modern packaging, including a release published on June 30, 2026. The README also documents development guides, graphical asset contribution, translation work, donations, and community channels, which is typical of long-lived open-source game-engine recreations.

### Adoption history

fheroes2 is packaged for multiple Unix-like package managers, including Homebrew, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, MacPorts, Nix, and Alpine according to the package facts in this batch. Its package appeal comes from letting users install the engine cleanly while supplying original or demo game data separately.

The repository metadata shows several thousand GitHub stars and hundreds of forks during this batch run, which is substantial for a game recreation project with legal separation between engine code and copyrighted assets.

### How it is used

Users install the engine, then provide Heroes of Might and Magic II data from an original purchase or the free demo. The Homebrew formula exposes `fheroes2` along with helper executables for extracting resources and installing demo data.

The documented Linux configuration path is `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fheroes2/fheroes2.cfg`, with a Flatpak-specific path under `~/.var/app/io.github.ihhub.Fheroes2/config/fheroes2/fheroes2.cfg`.

### Why package nerds care

fheroes2 is package-interesting because it cleanly separates a free engine from non-free game assets. That makes it a familiar pattern for distro maintainers of classic-game recreations: ship the engine, document asset requirements, and avoid bundling copyrighted data.

### Timeline

- Pre-2019: Project initially developed on SourceForge.
- 2019: Modern GitHub repository created and early GitHub release artifacts published.
- 2026: Version 1.1.17 released, with repository metadata showing continuing active development.

### Related projects

- fheroes2 belongs to the family of open-source engine recreations for classic commercial games, where users combine a free engine with separately obtained original data.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/ihhub/fheroes2>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/ihhub/fheroes2/releases>
- <https://ihhub.github.io/fheroes2>
- <https://sourceforge.net/projects/fheroes2/>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/fheroes2>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for fheroes2. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Linux: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fheroes2/fheroes2.cfg, ~/.var/app/io.github.ihhub.Fheroes2/config/fheroes2/fheroes2.cfg

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fheroes2.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/fheroes2.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation