Elemental: Reforged Beta 2 Released in Steam Early Access

Stardock Entertainment’s elemental turn-based fantasy strategy game Elemental: Reforged is getting that much bigger with the release of Beta 2 in Early Access.

New to Elemental: Reforged? Featuring 4X strategy gameplay, players can craft their own empire as they design unique units, invest in different research technology, learn magical spells, and send adventurers forth on different quests.

With Beta 2 of Elemental: Reforged, a number of major new items, creatures, quests, and additional content from the previous Elemental games is making an appearance.

Brad Wardell, lead designer of the Elemental series, said the following:

“The original Elemental game design was ambitious beyond belief.

The first game, War of Magic, was released in 2010 and supported a ‘living world’ where players could zoom in and see people living out their lives in cities.

Every unit was unique, characters could be equipped with different weapons, armor and items and visually change on screen, characters could get married and have children that visually inherited traits from both parents; this is a game where a human and an Ogre could potentially have children together.

If that sounds too much to fit in 32-bit memory space in 2010, the answer is, it was.”

Brad Wardell added:

“Now, with Elemental: Reforged, we can take the entire design and put it into a single game, albeit, 15 years later than we wished.

This has been a labor of love for us as most of the original team from 2010 is still at Stardock.

We’ve been working on this for the past 8 years in our spare time so players can get a glimpse of what we wanted to do.”

Elemental: Reforged also now features built-in modding tools, which support map creation, quest making, monster lair creation, dungeon creation, particle editing, and more.

Brad Wardell said the following:

“Someone could potentially make a turn-based RPG with these built in tools.

Between designing maps, creating monster lairs, quests, items, etc. all of which integrate into each other, along with the use of common art formats like FBX and PNG files, players can create and share pretty much whatever their imaginations come up with.”

Be sure to check out Elemental: Reforged via its official Steam page.

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