Elemental: Reforged, the Remastered 4X Strategy RPG from Stardock Launched Today
3/17/2026 12:30:00 PM
Elemental: Reforged, the Remastered 4X Strategy RPG is Now Available
Features three campaigns, dynasty system, deep crafting, and hundreds of new quests, characters, and dungeons
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A unique mix of 4X Strategy and RPG gameplay is now available as Stardock Entertainment has officially released Elemental: Reforged. To celebrate the release of this passionately crafted and expanded remaster of Stardock’s most ambitious title, players can take advantage of a launch discount for the next two weeks.
Elemental: Reforged is a turn-based strategy game set in an RPG world. Players create their own sovereign hero, establish their civilization, explore a procedurally generated fantasy map, and compete for control of powerful magical shards. Every unit in the game is a unique individual with their own name, stats, equipment, and history. Players can research technology, learn spells, send heroes on quests, craft magical items, and wage war or forge alliances with rival civilizations.
“Elemental: Reforged is the full culmination of Stardock achieving the original vision set out for the Elemental franchise,” said Brad Wardell, CEO of Stardock. “The original Elemental trilogy was a truly unique strategy gaming experience and this project was a true labor of love where we sought to combine the best elements of those three games, and a lot of great new features we’ve come up with, into one neat package for the fans.”
The first Elemental game, Elemental: War of Magic, released in 2010 featured an ambitious design that envisioned a world in which every character was unique and existed within a living world of varied civilizations competing for domination. Despite praise of its innovative features, the game struggled under the limitations of 32-bit hardware. Two years later, Stardock released a sequel, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, which streamlined the feature set to fit better in 32-bit memory space. A spin-off game, Elemental: Sorcerer King, was developed that focused heavily on the features that were removed from the original Elemental such as crafting, quests and character progression.
Now, Elemental: Reforged takes a new 64-bit and 3D engine, a remastered set of visuals, features and content of all three games, and collects them all into a brand new package that introduces new content to fully deliver the original vision of Elemental, 16 years after the first game’s release. But it isn’t just the polished returning content that players will have to look forward to. Elemental: Reforged also features a brand new Dynasty System where sovereigns can marry, have children that carry traits of both parents, and forge legacies through multiple generations. Other new features include Mod Support through Steam Workshop, new quests, dungeons, characters and more!
Elemental: Reforged Key Features:
- A world of unique characters: Players can design their own units with desired visual customization and attributes, recruit champions, equip gear and watch them develop over the course of a game.
- Three Story-Driven Campaigns: The original Elemental trilogy’s campaigns are all included: Prelude, The Fallen Enchantress, and The Legendary Heroes, each exploring an era in the history of this world and its ultimate destiny.
- Hereditary Dynasties: Sovereign rulers can marry, have children, and pass down traits and visual characteristics across generations.
- Deep Crafting System: Create unique weapons, armor, enchantments, and magical artifacts to equip your armies.
- Hundreds of New Quests, Characters, and Dungeons: Never-before-seen content, including new storylines, encounters, and explorable locations that expand the world far beyond the original games.
- 10 Distinct Civilizations: Each with unique traits, playstyles, and visual identities.
- World Terraforming: Reshape the land itself using shards of elemental magic.
- Tactical Combat: Turn-based battles with intelligent, non-cheating AI.
- Full Modding Suite with Steam Workshop: Create and share custom maps, scenarios, and total conversions.
Elemental: Reforged is now available on Steam or direct through Stardock with a launch discount price of $19.99 USD.
For more information, visit www.elementalgame.com.
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First Gameplay Trailer Released for Ashes of the Singularity II
12/3/2025 11:00:00 AM
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The first gameplay trailer for Ashes of the Singularity II is now live, offering a closer look at the game’s current visuals and gameplay mechanics that fans have been eager to see. This trailer provides a first look into the strategic depth and immersive experience that the sequel promises to deliver.
In conjunction with the trailer release, we’ve also published our first set of FAQs. These address common questions about gameplay mechanics, story elements, and system requirements, providing players with essential information as they prepare for the game’s launch.
For further insights, be sure to check out PC Gamer's article, which delves into key features and offers their perspective on what to expect from Ashes of the Singularity II.
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Now in Early Access - Elemental: Reforged
10/23/2025 10:00:00 AM
Remaster of the Classic Fantasy Strategy Game Series, Enters Early Access Today
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Stardock Entertainment announced that its remaster of the Elemental fantasy strategy game series, Elemental: Reforged, entered Early Access today. The classic sandbox turn-based 4X game series puts the player in the role of a sovereign of a fledgling kingdom in a world that has been devastated by a war of magic.
“Elemental: Reforged is the culmination of the vision Stardock had for this series since we started work on it over 15 years ago,” said Bradley Wardell, CEO of Stardock and designer of Elemental: Reforged. “The design of the game was ahead of its time, but limited by PC consumer hardware of the late 2000s. Now with a 64-bit engine, updated graphical fidelity, and a combination of features from all previous releases in the Elemental series, Reforged is exactly what we hoped the original game would be.”
“Each game had certain key features that the others couldn’t fit. For instance, War of Magic has family dynasties where characters could get married, have children and the children visibly carried a blending of the parents. That meant even trolls and humans could have children. Probably best not to dwell too much on that,” said Wardell. “For Fallen Enchantress we focused on detailed unit stats and well-paced tactical combat. For Sorcerer King we had crafting and quests.”
Today’s Early Access Build is designed to showcase the new combined game and give players the opportunity to give feedback on which parts of the game they want Stardock to further develop and enhance.
“We wanted to get players into the game as soon as possible,” said Wardell. “As a way of making good on the promise of the original game’s ambitious design, our aim is to make sure we shape this the way our fans want to see.”
Elemental: Reforged Key Features include:
- Ultimate Fantasy Sandbox. Players can create their own leaders, their own factions, and build a fantasy civilization with its own history and lore.
- Unified Elemental Experience. Brings together the strategic depth, smart AI, and rich gameplay from Fallen Enchantress, the immersive crafting and quest systems from Sorcerer King, and the dynasty-building, terraforming, and innovative mechanics first introduced in War of Magic.
- Rich, Dynamic Worlds. Enjoy endless replayability through procedurally generated fantasy worlds filled with lore-rich quests, evolving environments that respond to your magic, unique fantasy civilizations, and bustling cities populated with individually simulated characters.
- RPG-Infused Unit Design. Customize heroes and armies through an intuitive RPG-style character designer, crafting each unit with their own unique history, stats, equipment, and abilities, growing stronger with experience.
- Compelling, Short Tactical Combat. See how your designed units and characters fare in battle in highly refined tactical battles that reward strategic thinking, or leverage a sophisticated auto-resolve system powered by advanced AI for streamlined empire management.
- Deep Quest and Story Integration. Embark on rich, narrative-driven quests seamlessly woven into the empire-building experience, influencing diplomacy, unlocking secrets, and offering meaningful rewards.
- Modernized UI and Graphics Engine. Explore enhanced visuals powered by DirectX 11, seamless zooming from strategic cloth-map to detailed tactical view.
- Integrated Modding Tools. A comprehensive built-in modding and map-editing tools, and a fully redesigned user interface optimized for modern PC gaming with Steam workshop integration.
The original game’s release, Elemental: War of Magic, was limited by the constraints of 32-bit technology, which unfortunately wasn’t able to execute the game’s ambitious mechanics and design in the way Stardock planned. Now with Elemental: Reforged, modern computer hardware is fully capable of delivering the fully realized vision of the series in a package that includes content from all three previous Elemental games.
As a result of the technical limitations of the day, Elemental was released as War of Magic, Fallen Enchantress and Sorcerer King, each with its own subset of the original design. The single integrated game, Elemental: Reforged, blends the best of all three games with Dynasties, Unit Design and Crafting by moving to a 64-bit game engine and a modern version of DirectX.
Elemental: Reforged is now available to play via Steam Early Access for a limited-time introductory price, with an exclusive launch discount.
