Elemental: Fallen Enchantress is now available

Stardock announced today that the long-awaited fantasy strategy PC game, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, is now available. Fallen Enchantress offers players an immersive new world to build or destroy as they try to conquer the land and its inhabitants. Enter the world of Elemental and create a sovereign with unique talents and abilities along with a faction to align yourself with in an effort to bring the world under your control.

The land is not simply waiting to be claimed, it must be conquered. The lands of Elemental are teeming with monsters, bandits and ancient creatures who will not willingly give up their hold on the world. In addition, other factions are pursuing the same agenda at the same time raising the stakes.

Highlights include:

  • A new game every time. Players can choose the world conditions and have a world randomly generated with randomized opponents, monsters and quests.
  • Unique factions to play with or against. Each faction has its own special units, abilities and powers that require different strategies to achieve victory – or to resist against.
  • Massive scale. Players can zoom in and see individuals working in their cities or zoom out to see the known world presented in a real-time cloth map in one smooth transition.
  • Computer players that get better the more you play. The multi-core AI makes use of the character, factions and units players create in previous games.
  • Custom Scenarios. In addition to the epic sandbox game, Fallen Enchantress also supports custom scenarios. The game includes the scenario “The Fallen Enchantress” to introduce players to the backstory.
  • A strategy game in an RPG world. Fallen Enchantress introduces elements normally found in role playing games such as quests, loot drops, moral dilemmas, unit customization and much more.
  • Unique Locations. The world generator will randomly place one of several unique areas that contain special resources to use. These “Wild Lands” have their own powerful guardians who must first be defeated before the treasures within can be exploited.
  • Multiple paths to victory. Players can win through diplomacy, questing, sorcery, or good old fashioned military conquest.
  • An interactive tutorial. To introduce new players to the world of “4X” strategy games, Fallen Enchantress includes an in-depth tutorial to ease players into the Elemental world.
  • Advanced modding tools. The game ships with a rich array of modding tools including a map editor, tile editor and particle editor to provide players with the means to create new races, quests, spells and scenarios which can be easily shared with other players.
  • All-star development team. Fallen Enchantress reunites Stardock’s Galactic Civilizations team and is designed by Derek Paxton, the author of the acclaimed Civilization IV mod “Fall From Heaven”. The Fallen Enchantress scenario was created by the Civilization V designer, Jon Shafer, and the lore, backstories, and dialog were written by fantasy author Dave Stern.

Fallen Enchantress is $39.99 new and free for those who purchased War of Magic in 2010.

It is available direct from its home page (www.fallenenchantress.com) as well as on Steam, GameStop, GamersGate and elsewhere.

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Reply #1 Top

Now I just have to wait 4 hours until I get out of work...

Reply #2 Top

1more hour for me :(

Reply #3 Top

Well, I'm not really good at this, but I give it a try, because it is a special occasion:

Congratulations on the release, Stardock-Team, and a big Thank you! for all your hard work and dedication over the last couple years! I really hope that E:FE will have the success it deserves!

Speaking of "deserving", I originally planned to give you a cake as a present for the occasion. However, I ultimately decided against it, because my cakes are just of average quality (it also would have only lead to countless Portal-jokes). Instead, I will gift you something I'm really good at: Pizza!

I hope you don't mind garlic. ;)

Reply #4 Top

downloading... 11 min left :)

Reply #5 Top

You might want to set the main website to reload cache for a day or two. But whatever.

Congratulations Stardock! :D

Reply #6 Top

Congratulations on the release. And thank you, thank you thank you... :thumbsup: \o/

Reply #7 Top

Thanks, Gaunathor. Now I have 2.5 hours left AND I'm hungry.

Reply #8 Top


19min left. Gained back 5kb/sec. XD

Reply #9 Top

Congratz Stardock! I do have high hopes for this game. Drinking early just to celebrate haha. And also want to say thank you for allowing me to get FE for free :) Is there a way where we can link our serial number to either Steam or Impulse?

Reply #10 Top

Congratulations on the release. I remember when first encountering Kael's Civilization IV mod and thinking it was quite a piece of work. It inspired my own Civ IV modding back then. I wish this game all the best of luck and I look forward to what Kael and the team will do in the future as well. I've really enjoyed and had some good times with the beta.

Reply #11 Top

Congratulations! It's been a great couple of years, and I hope that you all continue to have the opportunity to make the games you want to make (and play)!

Reply #12 Top

Congratulations! You have all done a cracking job and should be very proud. I think i will  buy the game again on Steam coz i feel that i have already been repaid for WoM by being in the Beta and playing a great game for the last couple of months.

Cheers Dan

Reply #13 Top

As of now, FE is the 9th best selling game of today on Steam and 2nd on Impulse. That's good.

EDIT: Update.

Reply #14 Top

EXCELLENT!  Install went smoothly, game started up, I "walked" through the tutorial.  All is well.  Thank you for providing this to those of us who bought the original.  I will certainly consider Stardock games in the future!

Reply #15 Top

Quoting bbr91, reply 14
As of now, FE is the 10th best selling game of today on Steam. That's good.

Froyboy posted something about FE being the top billed game of the day already...

something change?

Reply #16 Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 16
Froyboy posted something about FE being the top billed game of the day already...

something change?

Go look for yourself on http://store.steampowered.com and click the Top Sellers tab. It's still very good, given the amount of traffic Steam has.

EDIT: I remember when GalCiv II was the 3rd most sold game on Steam for a couple of days, during last summer's sale. Stardock makes great games...

Reply #18 Top

It is advertised on Steam in the top stop, rotating with a dozen or so other games. In terms of sales its in 9th place.

Reply #19 Top

Quoting Ryilan, reply 18
Any chance we can get our Free copy for 2010 buy in, on Steam?

No. You get it in your Stardock account. You can't transfer products from your Stardock account to Steam. They said this might be possible for future games, but not FE. You can use Stardock Central for automatic updates.

Reply #20 Top

Quoting bbr91, reply 17



Quoting GFireflyE,
reply 16
Froyboy posted something about FE being the top billed game of the day already...

something change?


Go look for yourself on http://store.steampowered.com and click the Top Sellers tab. It's still very good, given the amount of traffic Steam has.

EDIT: I remember when GalCiv II was the 3rd most sold game on Steam for a couple of days, during last summer's sale. Stardock makes great games...

That doesn't necessarily mean top sellers of today, does it?

Reply #21 Top

Quoting GFireflyE, reply 21
That doesn't necessarily mean top sellers of today, does it?

I think it does. It gets updated hourly or so.

Reply #22 Top

Oh nice thanks. Oh well like to have all my eggs in one basket but no biggie!

Reply #23 Top

No one talking about how the game is being marketed as Fallen Enchantress with the subtle Elemental logo and slick new font but then installing as Elemental: Fallen Enchantress? Sneaky sneaky... and getting both sides of that FE/E:FE poll awhile back.

Reply #24 Top

Hey there, I have a question. Yesterday there was a premiere of one game on Steam, yet I don't see any advertisements, no information in the news section, etc. Shame, I believe your product would benefit a lot from those.

Reply #25 Top

Quoting Azazell83, reply 25
Hey there, I have a question. Yesterday there was a premiere of one game on Steam, yet I don't see any advertisements, no information in the news section, etc. Shame, I believe your product would benefit a lot from those.

 

What's the question?