SpellForce: The Order of Dawn is a combination real-time strategy and role-playing video game game developed by German game developers Phenomic and released on 16 December 2003 in Europe and 11 February 2004 in North America. The original game was followed by two expansions: SpellForce: The Breath of Winter in 2004 and SpellForce: Shadow of the Phoenix in 2005. The main game and the first expansion were later released as theSpellForce Gold Edition, the SpellForce Platinum Edition includes all three games.