Instead you have units of differing types that you can deploy. The character does not participate directly in the combat. Most of the time when they see the character, they start to chase them down and if they come into contact with your character, a battle ensues. The players can receive quests from various NPCs in the world and upon their completion they are rewarded either experience, loot or both. Players can find huts or villages where they can buy and sell items or units. Sometimes they will stumble onto buried treasures, other times the loot will be out in the open. Players have access to an overworld map they can click on to move around. The game lets the player play as one of the characters from the three protagonists, the orc Bagyr, who is a warrior, the vampire Daert, who is a mage, and the demoness Neoline, who belongs to the paladin class. Unlike previous games, the protagonists in the game belong to orcish, vampire, and demon races which are the antagonistic races in other installments.

The game is a strategy based with RPG elements. King's Bounty: Dark Side maintains many of the same game conventions used in previous installments. It is a standalone installment in the King's Bounty series. The game was released on August 14, 2014. King's Bounty: Dark Side is a 2014 strategy video game developed for Microsoft Windows by 1C-Softclub and published by 1C Company.

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