The Settlers: Heritage of Kings (German: Die Siedler: Das Erbe der Könige) released as Heritage of Kings: The Settlers in North America is a real-time strategy video game developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. Released in Germany for Microsoft Windows in November 2004 and in the United Kingdom North America and Australia in February 2005 it is the fifth game in The Settlers series. In 2005 Blue Byte released two expansions The Settlers: Heritage of Kings - Expansion Disc (German: Die Siedler: Das Erbe der Könige - Nebelreich) and The Settlers: Heritage of Kings - Legends Expansion Disc (German: Die Siedler: Das Erbe der Könige - Legenden) in March and September respectively featuring new single-player campaign missions new maps for both single-player and multiplayer modes a map editor and a random map generator. In November The Settlers: Heritage of Kings - Gold Edition was released containing the original game and the first expansion. In 2009 the original game was also released on GOG.com. In 2018 the game was re-released as The Settlers: Heritage of Kings - History Edition.