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Launch Livestream: Elemental: Reforged
Join us for our Elemental: Reforged Livestream Event Save the Date | Wishlist Now Join us as we play through the campaigns and quests of the remastered 4X strategy RPG, Elemental: Reforged! 📅 Tuesday, March 17th at 1:00 PM EST 📍Location: Elemental: Reforged Steam Page What to Expect A world of unique characters: Players can design their own units with desired visual customization and attributes, recruit champions, equip gear and watch them develo... [read more]
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Because of course we also made a full-fledged RPG game inside of our 4X strategy game… Let’s recap: 16 years ago we released Elemental: War of Magic. A ridiculously ambitious game that came crashing down because it couldn’t fit in 32-bit memory and all our dancing around this made the game incredibly unstable and required us to do terrible things to it to get it to work to the point you can’t even buy Elemental: War of Magic. The sequel, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, was greatly slimm... [read more]
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Beta 3C "The Menagerie Update" for Elemental: Reforged is Now Available
Beta 3C "The Menagerie Update" for Elemental: Reforged is now available Wishlist or Join Early Access New and Upgraded Monster Lairs Monster lairs now feature greater variety with new creature types including Ghouls, Bone Hounds, Feral Slaves, Embers, Prowlers, and Herglings. Lairs also drop more loot, with specific monster types tending to drop specific types of rewards and crafting ingredients. Guardian monsters will no longer wander away from their lairs. New Tutori... [read more]
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Beta 3B: The Prelude Campaign Arrives for Elemental: Reforged
Beta 3B: The Prelude Campaign Arrives A new campaign, new sovereigns, smarter AI, and faster performance land in Elemental: Reforged's latest update Join Early Access | Wishlist Elemental The Beta 3b update for Elemental: Reforged is now available. Here's what's new. The Prelude Campaign The final campaign, Prelude, is now playable. This joins the existing Fallen Enchantress and Legendary Heroes campaigns, rounding out the campaign lineup ahead of launch. Ne... [read more]
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Launch Date Announcement for Elemental: Reforged
Stardock Announces March 17 Release Date for Elemental: Reforged The remastered fantasy 4X strategy RPG exits Early Access with three campaigns, a dynasty system, deep crafting, and hundreds of new quests, characters, and dungeons Wishlist Now | Join Early Access Stardock Entertainment today announced that Elemental: Reforged , the remastered and expanded fantasy 4X strategy RPG, will leave Early Access and launch on March 17, 2026 on Steam with a la... [read more]
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Dev Journal #21: Of AI and Balance
As we start to near the finish line, our focus has moved to bug fixing, AI updates and balance. This is a delicate thing to get right. It isn’t as exciting or flashy as the graphics update but it is what will matter in the long run. Though, mark my words, there will still be “that guy” who will say the remaster didn’t update the graphics. Below is Janisk (before and after). Campaign before and after: And of course the new portraits: But gameplay is what matters an... [read more]
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Elemental: Reforged Beta 3 Now Available
Elemental: Reforged Beta 3 Is Here Beta 3 for Elemental: Reforged is here, bringing a substantial visual overhaul, expanded campaign content, and reworked AI Get into Early Access | Add to Steam Wishlist Visual Overhaul The most immediately noticeable change is the updated character models. We've left the PlayStation 1 era behind with new models that apply retroactively to existing characters. We may still need to upscale some clothing models and textures , but the core v... [read more]