Elemental: War of Magic caused successful strategy developer Stardock to completely restructure. Now the company is returning to the field of battle.

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Galactic Civilizations developer returns to the fantasy-strategy genre that once devastated the company (exclusive)

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 1, 2014
Updated June 18, 2025
8 min

Stardock Entertainment is girding itself for battle with the genre that nearly destroyed the company: fantasy strategy.

The developer’s first attempt was Elemental, starting in 2010 after seven years of success with the Galactic Civilizations 4X (“eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate”) space strategy series.

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