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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition must be what modders dream about—a big, impactful, community-driven project that enhances a beloved game, with full support from its publisher. It's effectively an official upgrade for the orc-kicking immersive sim, released for free. And it's heading to Steam.

The list of improvements is impressive, and includes:

Linux and 64-bit support

Restored content

Console-exclusive maps and modes

Co-op

New Game+

Adventure mode, with bonus levels and challenges

New spells, weapons and abilities like sliding

Randomly-generated levels

Steam Workshop support

WiltOS Technologies ported Dark Messiah over to the latest Source engine and worked with the community and other modders to integrate existing mods and fan requests, culminating in this new version. And publisher Ubisoft has apparently been a great help.

"Ubisoft is actually supporting this project directly," the developer noted on the Steam forum .…