
Both the main game and the expansions were later re-released as a package titled SpellForce Platinum Edition in November 2005. The Order of Dawn received favorable reviews, with two expansions later released for it by JoWooD Productions: SpellForce: The Breath of Winter in June 2004, and SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix in November that same year. The game was released in Europe on November 11, 2003, and in North America on February 11, 2004. In addition to the game's story campaign, players can also engage in skirmish battles, and multiplayer matches. The game combines elements of role-playing such as taking on quests, equipping characters and improving them when levelling up, alongside real-time strategy elements focused on gathering resources to construct bases and units.


The story itself focuses on an immortal slave who is granted their freedom in order to investigate growing troubles amongst some of these islands, which soon brings war to their inhabitants. The first instalment in the SpellForce series, the game takes place within a high-fantasy world in the years following a devastating cataclysmic event that has shattered the lands into several islands.

SpellForce: The Order of Dawn is a 2003 real-time strategy and role-playing video game, developed by Phenomic Game Development and published by Encore, Inc.
