Releases March 17, 2026
Journals
Dev Journal
Highlights from Legendary Heroes
Overall, we’re pretty happy with how Elemental: Fallen Enchantress turned out. It’s sold pretty well and it’s looking like it’s going to end up with an average review score of about 4 out of 5. Obviously, there’s always room to improve. And that’s where Legendary Heroes comes in. This expansion pack is a top-to-bottom revisit of Fallen Enchantress. We’ll have a full change list up soon (and it’s many pages long) but here are some of the highlights told in screenshot form. ... [read more]
Dev Journal
The goal is to have the Legendary Heroes beta out this week. It’s been held back mostly because we’re having trouble with the self-shadowing. Shadows are a pain in the butt. In Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, more engineering hours were spent on the self-shadowing than anything else. But ya gotta do it. It’s one of those uncanny valley things. Game Geeking Derek (Kael) and I have been going over various UI elements, particularly regarding the behavior of selected ... [read more]
Dev Journal
Legendary Heroes - Pre-Beta video
Hi everyone! Here is a lengthy play through of Legendary Heroes. Note that this is pre-beta and there will be a lot of improvements, especially visually, between now and release. [read more]
Dev Journal
Legendary Heroes - Monday news
Greetings! Memory is remembered Last week we discussed that we really wanted Legendary Heroes to support 32-bit for the new "Huge" size maps but the current FE/LH builds couldn't do it. So I agreed to spend the weekend going through the code to see what I could optimize. I'm pleased to say that enough optimization was done that LH users will be able to play on the new huge maps. But if you play it on a 32-bit machine, it'll pop up a warning since it's going to be... [read more]
Dev Journal
Legendary Heroes–February review
Last month a lot of time was spent on Fallen Enchantress v1.3. We also used that time to do a lot of play-testing of Legendary Heroes. The more we play, the more we think players are going to like it. Memory We are going to delay the beta one more week. We were planning on having it come out next Thursday. But after talking to the marketing team, it was decided that the question of 32-bit support needed to be answered by the time pre-orders start. That is,... [read more]
Press Releases (FE)
Elemental: Fallen Enchantress 1.3 Now Available!
Stardock has released its biggest update to its popular fantasy strategy game, Fallen Enchantress thus far. Version 1.3 of Fallen Enchantress adds: New spells Adds hundreds of new unit designs for the AI Updates the economic balance Improved performance on low end systems And much more. A full list of features can be found here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/440201 Fallen Enchantress is a strategy game set in the world of Elemental. In it, the player takes on the role of... [read more]
News
Derex Paxton on Quarter to Three’s Games Podcast
Stardock’s Derex Paxton is on the latest episode of Qt3’s game podcast: making strategy games even better. Derek talks about the upcoming Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes among other topics about strategy games. Listen to the full podcast here - http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/02/20/qt3-games-podcast-making-strategy-games-even-better/ [read more]