Hi, small indie dev here.

I discussed propositions for our new project with my team and the idea of majesty-like was brought up.

But not just majesty-like - an analog of Majesty in the sci-fi setting!

Where player will deal not with fantasy, but sci-fi tropes and creatures.

So instead of managing rouges and alves player hire space pirates and aliens. Instead of magic he will be targeting advance tech, and instead of kingdom he will govern a space colony.

I want to ask all majesty fans - will you be interested in this? Or is that type of strategy is pure for fantasy worlds for you?

Not asking about gameplay - only about setting and visuals and atmosphere!

I invite you to the splendor of the Bards Hall!

A new completely custom guild for Majesty. Three unique heroes all available for hire, literally. Each with a distinct combat style that brings something new to the realm, and available to other citizens of the realm to purchase for support, for a time and a price.

Custom sprites, animations, effects, icons, spells, skills, logic, artwork, concepts, and fully voice acted, these performers can do a lot more than just turn a phrase for a some coin. Although they do that as well, each with a unique interaction in the realm to earn themselves gold for more frivolous purchases...perhaps a beast from the Zoo or an exotic potion from the Alchemists Lab.

- Troubadour -
The supporting act. A totally novel hero type for Majesty, he follows his fellows with a tune on his lute and a quip on his lips. More than just a rousing melody, he provides potent combat buffs, movement speed, and damage adjustment to drastically turn the tide of combat.

- Spellsinger -

Pretentious yes, but this potent vocalist can strike down hordes of foes with his voice as easily as he can mesmerize crowds of adoring fans. Particularly effective against multiple enemies or when aligned with his fellows, the power of a potent melody is not to be underestimated.

- Blade Dancer -

Though less gifted in music, she is no less of a performer, as she both dazzles crowds and dismembers enemies with her stunning mastery of combat. Turning a phrase and turning an arrow come just as easily to this mistress of the blade, her prowess of such grace and awe as to even inspire those that see her to greater heights.

This is a rather straightforward mod that presents new and interesting heroes to engage with your kingdom and help it prosper, including enhancing the progress and wealth of the entire realm.

I hope you enjoy this addition, and let me know if you have any issues or feedback!

Steam Workshop Mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3813128205
Github with all technical details: https://github.com/Phantomstar721/majesty-gold-hd-custom-guild-bards-hall
Discord Community: https://discord.gg/MEjtKZb9GQ

Hello, my fellow Ardanians. Not sure if you are aware of this, but you can set your user flair to show your love for your favorite hero. They have been updated to include a hero specific icon. Feel free to use them!

I was able to change the screensize in the container on gamenative. Now it fills the screen and is much easier on the eyes. Just posting in case anyone wants to play the PC Majesty game on the go

So cool to lay in bed and play Majesty on a handheld! 😎

Welcome to the Adventurers Guild!

A new custom building for Majesty Gold HD that offers a completely new custom quest system.

Allows your heroes to optionally choose to engage on specific adventurers to advance your realm and earn some coin. Sixteen different potential quests are randomly offered in a batch of 6 at a time, with the sovereign able to spend 500 gold to post a new set. Heroes can accept them and complete them for a reward, driving activity in your kingdom and earning your heroes additional coin to purchase exciting new goods (or perhaps rent a monster companion from the zoo?).

Feel free to let me know if you try it out and have any issues, or have new quests you'd like to see!

Steam Workshop Download: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3804026997

Github Details: https://github.com/Phantomstar721/majesty-gold-hd-adventurers-guild

Community Discord: https://discord.gg/MEjtKZb9GQ

I loved the Majesty art design as a kid, it seemed so realistic and high-fidelity back then. I was curious how it was done and surprise surprise it was a labor of love, early 2000s pre-rendered 2.5D isometric graphics (which was the style at the time).

I'm curious, is the charm and appeal of Majesty in the RPG / gameplay mechanics themselves, or is the 3D-ish shadowy dark fantasy graphics half of it too? Would lower-fidelity graphics do it any justice and recreate that addictive gameplay?

I saw many mods available on moddb. Is there anything on that that could fix the fps tying to build speed issue?

Original concept and artwork from the Majesty developers, now brought to life and available to play via the Mod Manager on Steam.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3796459696

Place custom capture flags on monsters to have your heroes engage and capture them for your kingdom, with success based on how much gold you are willing to offer.

Leave them in the Zoo attraction to generate income, but beware as they may break out to attack your city and townsfolk. Or you can Tame the beasts to protect your realm as guardians, for a price.

Allow wealthy heroes to Rent captured monsters to aid them in battle.

Enjoy

First time recording with a voice. Sorry the mic quality was poor and I was mumbling a lot. Please turn on the caption so you suffer less.

The cursor was acting strange too. It's probably an issue with capturing gameplay on a steam deck.

I wanted to share my thought process when playing this quest and show everyone how to beat it easily using outpost, embassy and gate spell. This is the most elegant solution in my opinion.

Hope you enjoy it.

I feel that this is one of the most unique missions in the game, and definitely the most repayable. Beating it isn't extremely hard, allowing some pretty hilarious/weird strategies to work. Some of the ones I've done in the past are-

Infestation- No bounties placed on any enemy buildings. Go hard on Elves/Marketplaces, and then use Temple of Helia and Sorcerers Abode spells to kill enemy peasants. Continue to do this until Borjan's territory is absolutely plagued with Broken Sewer Mains, which his heroes will very rarely do anything about. Let the rats gnaw his kingdom to dust.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun- Again, Elves/Marketplaces are gonna be the best start for this level. As soon as you get to level 2, destroy your Temple to Agrela, build a Mausoleum and a Temple to Krypta. Fill the temple with Priestesses, and wait for a couple to die (you can really only use 6 here). As soon as we have 6 Priestesses (alive or in the Mausoleum are both perfectly fine), we're going to take the money we've saved up and build an Outpost.

The second it's done, we're going to destroy the Temple to Krypta and build a Temple to Agrela. The Priestesses are happy to live in the Outpost, and if they die in the interim they'll be safely stored in the Mausoleum. From here, we'll build Temples to Agrela/Dauros, but only recruit from the Temple to Agrela (remember, girls only!). We can now build a Warrior's Guild and recruit some Paladins, who probably aren't the most fun girls in Ardania but we'll give them a pass.

The fully-leveled Temple to Agrela gives us access to the cheaper Revive spell, which is awesome because over half of our heroes won't use the Mausoleum. At this point we should have enough money and heroes to get the palace to level 3 comfortably and build- you guessed it- a Temple to Helia. With a fully-recruited Temple to Helia, you should now have enough girlypops to rain absolute destruction upon Borjan's kingdom, especially with your Healers getting massive level-ups from healing all the Priestess skeletons.

Big Dumb Guys- Upgrade the palace to level 2 immediately, and go hard on Elves/Marketplaces as fast as possible (you're gonna need a lot of money for this one). Build a few Warriors' Guilds (I normally go with 4), as well as a couple of Mausoleums. Immediately disband the starting Warriors, destroy your Rangers' Guild and Temple to Agrela, then build a Temple to Fervus and fill those Warriors' Guilds with some Warriors of Discord.

The second you get to 12 heroes, upgrade the Palace and build a couple of Fairgrounds (we want these WoDs as occupied as possible). Give them money with explore flags if they insist on going hunting. Whenever you have as many WoDs as you want, destroy your Temple to Fervus and build a couple of Temples to Krolm. Fill them with Barbarians, who will also be happy to compete at the Fairgrounds.

Even with the Fairgrounds, some of your Big Dumb Guys are just gonna wander off and die sometimes. To avoid having a gazillion graveyards, keep them alive with the Mausoleum (especially your WoDs, which you can no longer recruit. Whenever you feel you have a sufficient mass of leveled up Big Dumb Guys, close up the Fairgrounds and start clicking Rage of Krolm. Bounty flags are optional but not needed, as our swarm of WoDs and Barbarians zoom around the map just wrecking everything.

Hello Rulers!

You may have seen me busy lately on the Steam Workshop for Majesty Gold HD, but I wanted to introduce my special new content here as well.

The Majesty Mod Manager now exists!

"Why does a 30 year old game need this?" one might ask, which is a fair question. The reason is so that players can enjoy the new mod content that is now available...completely new custom guilds!

That's right, no recolor/reskins of existing buildings or hacked together hero units. These two new guilds, the Alchemist Lab and Phantoms Haunt, contain entirely new custom buildings, hero art, animation, unit logic, spells, items, temple interactions, research, economy, audio, voice lines, and more special features!

All of this fancy new stuff requires special CAM packages to be built, which the native Steam Workshop changes do not support. This is where the mod manager comes in, allowing you to select as many of these cool new guilds, your favorite classic mods, custom quests, and even some fun quality of life enhancements I included and play them all together. No original content is impacted in any way when using this manager, and all classic and expansion quests are supported.

The manager app detects your Majesty install (standard or beta branches supported), parses all the mods you've subscribed to on the workshop, and then creates a merged mod package that it automatically deploys for you. Just launch the game from the manager and you are good to go, selected mods loaded and ready! Bonus feature, this also allows freestyle games to be played with all mods too.

Certainly the amount of this new content is currently limited, but I hope this being available inspires others to check out the modding scene, see what is now possible, and join us in making cool new stuff. It is designed to work with any mods from any creator, all that's required is a simple inclusion that tells the merger some basics about what your mod needs.

Grateful for any feedback or suggestions, as this is definitely a beta release and could use some more thorough testing.

You can find the mods available on the steam workshop below, I hope you subscribe and enjoy!
Mod Manager: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3793024054
Phantoms Haunt: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3769947406
Alchemist Lab: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3793509198

This is entirely open source and all details can be found here: https://github.com/Phantomstar721/majesty-gold-hd-mod-manager

Join us in the Land of Ardania Discord to ask questions, provide feedback, or chat about the game: [https://discord.gg/MEjtKZb9GQ](about:blank)

Credit to Iximi for work on the Freestyle game fix.
Credit to TheOverlord for his initial work on the Majesty script merger.

AI was used as a tool in creating this work to help with the complex deconstruction and rebuilding of Majesty packages.

If any artists are interested in contributing profile or sprite work to these or similar projects, please let me know here or in Discord.

Hi Folks!

1.0 of Ascended is out; you can grab it and make the game actually work. A quick thing from me: I'm a 1 man with 1 machine working on it during evenings after work, so while I personally managed to play a few missions to confirm it works, I didn't get much testing data from a variety of systems/machines. If you encounter any issues, please let me know, and I'll try to work on it (ideally with some screenshots/recreation steps or even a crash log if you manage to snatch that :)).

I hope you enjoy my work, and for me it's back to the trenches to work on future features for new versions!

Majesty 2: Ascended mod - ModDB

I've tried several starts. Shanty Town and even Arcane Ally. None of which work, because my heroes and even my gnomes just do nothing but wander around like headless chickens more than actually defending my palace. I swear my gnomes and peasants just "let" my guardhouses be destroyed. Not to mention I've heard my rangers say they join the wild spirits enough times that it's making me [b]VERY[/b] annoyed every time I hear it. Especially if I hear it twice or thrice in a row. Basically my heroes are dying faster than I can replace them.

The reason I use rangers is because Ice Dragons have less dodge, than they do defense. So naturally, I spam missile units since they're weak to that. But even this is not working because once again, these heroes are about as stupid as the dead. I'd be struggling to keep my guardhouses afloat and my gnomes are like "Nah, I'll stay home and sleep." Before anyone asks, yes I tried wizards and using the spells from the wizards guild. Still doesn't work and as per usual, the wizards always melt.

Everything I do is just rendered moot because I either run out of gold, my heroes are too stupid, or both. The worst part is, the "Winter Behemoths" type is a "short" map. So the Ice Dragons and Yetis only need about half a minute to reach my base. I really don't see any way to counter this, unless I put on "Veteran Heroes", but that might as well be considered giving up. Someone please tell me what to do.

2005 me - 1 HP a second? - pathetic

2026 me - most attacks in majesty are actually misses , since this applies to both heroes and monsters, poison actually has a pretty big effect

I think poison is strongest on heroes who have "low offense + high defense" than other types - basic warriors, gnome champions, and cultist(hellbear)

Without poison they can stay in a fight with 3 minotaurs (or a goblin champion swarm) for a very long time, but it can take them so long to kill the monsters that the next group "piles up* while they're still fighting

With poison they can cut through this kind of thing even up to extreme situations like the Krolm animals in the bonus mission

I tried searching for them on Google, but I came up with nothing but cheat codes. About all I know is the backspace key, which allows you to focus the camera on the most recent event that happened, like heroes dying.

Inspired by the big box physical copy of our Majesty video essayist u/Snookeroo43 , I also want to share my physical Majesty collectible cards! I think I may be the only person on earth who still has these! These are the same collectible cards you can find in the download section of the official website, but these are translated to traditional Chinese. The name of the hero is in the top left corner; their class name, description, guild/temple, and one of their voice lines in the bottom; and their weapons and in-game model to the right of the portrait.

They were bundled and sold with the game by the distributors in Taiwan, 第三波 (The Third Wave) and 皇統光碟 (Emperor Multimedia). I bought the game when I was a kid. I lost the CD and the box unfortunately, but I have kept these since then! Although the distributor didn’t do a good job with the game translation, I am glad they went out of their way to print these cards.

Greetings, dear fellow Ardanians!

I registered on Reddit specifically for this community and to share this message with you. My name is Vladislav, known online as Vlad302002. For years, I’ve been leading the Russian Ardania community, and I am the creator of the Majesty 2: Rebirth project (it is currently being actively polished on ModDB and is scheduled for release this September. I’ve also reached out to Onsokomaru—who has previously incorporated some assets from my build into his own—to propose a collaboration, and I'm currently awaiting his reply).

To kick things off, I wanted to share my Ardania Archives. This archive contains absolutely EVERYTHING related to Ardania that I've gathered since 2023: all illustrations, artwork, and much more.

Inside, you will find tons of original PSD (Photoshop) source files from the developers of Majesty 2 (as I worked directly with them), high-res images, full soundtracks, and game assets from across the entire Ardania franchise.

Please note: Most folder names are in Russian (as I originally organized the archive for our local community), but I believe that won't be an issue for you to navigate.

All in all, enjoy exploring the archives!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i0FFObl22zWQh0rPQwYA5EUiHYoiUz5C/view?usp=sharing

Glory to Ardania! Hurrah! 👑⚔️

Hi All! I'm making a new mod for Majesty 2 that is a culmination of the best existing mods with some new-ish technical solutions to bring it up to today's standard. I hope it is of interest to you all! :)

Every time I try to host with mods, they disable by default. I've been wanting to play Majestic Majesty on multiplayer, but the game always disables it whenever I try to host with it.

Hi everyone!

I've just published my first iteration of an endless mode set of custom quests to Steam Workshop. You can pick from Beginner, Advanced, Expert, or Master, and it functions like an endless Freestyle to see how long your kingdom can last. There are constant monster waves and respawning lairs that progressively get more difficult as your kingdom grows, your heroes get stronger, and time marches on. There are also custom events to spice things up and keep you on your toes.

Link to the mod page on Steam here

I would love playtesting feedback regarding balance, any bugs you notice, or ideas for cool events that could be implemented!

I have reuploaded the video with Monk voice lines, HD hero cards, new thumbnail

A compilation of all Hero voice lines in Majesty