One of my all-time favorite games. It's hard to describe exactly what M&B is to someone that hasn't played the game before as it's pretty damn unique. Basically it's an open-world sandbox RPG with basebuilding and strategy elements - closest example to it I can think of is Total War with more RPG elements.

In my opinion the best part of the game is the lively mod scene. The game has been out for nearly a decade now and still new mods are being produced. While there's plenty of minor quality of life mods, there's a ton of total conversion mods that change the entire game. Some of these keep the game in a relatively similar setting with new maps/quests/factions (like Diplomacy or Prophesy of Pendor) while others change everything about the game, putting it in a completely different setting with fantasy/scifi creatures (The Last Days of the Third Age, Star Wars Conquest). The game has a ton of replayability to start with, and these mods keep it fresh no matter how often you want to start it up again.

One of my all-time favorite games. It's hard to describe exactly what M&B is to someone that hasn't played the game before as it's pretty damn unique. Basically it's an open-world sandbox RPG with basebuilding and strategy elements - closest example to it I can think of is Total War with more RPG elements. In my opinion the best part of the game is the lively mod scene. The game has been out for nearly a decade now and still new mods are being produced. While there's plenty of minor quality of life mods, there's a ton of total conversion mods that change the entire game. Some of these keep the game in a relatively similar setting with new maps/quests/factions (like Diplomacy or Prophesy of Pendor) while others change everything about the game, putting it in a completely different setting with fantasy/scifi creatures (The Last Days of the Third Age, Star Wars Conquest). The game has a ton of replayability to start with, and these mods keep it fresh no matter how often you want to start it up again.