With it’s July 16th release just around the corner, Stardock’s upcoming 4x strategy game, Sorcerer King has just had its intro cinematic revealed. To help get fans pumped for the official launch, a brief refresher of what the title is about was released along with it:

Sorcerer King is a different kind of 4X game from Stardock, one of the longest-tenured independent studios in the video game industry. There are no evenly matched rivals to race against here; the game itself is out to get you. The evil Sorcerer King is slowly sucking the magic from the world and its inhabitants to fuel his ascension to godhood. You must carve out enough of a kingdom from the wreckage to assemble one last army of heroes and soldiers to storm his dark stronghold in a final deadly challenge to his absolute authority. His evil empire will crush you like a bug if you look like too much of a threat, though, so making your move too early will only doom the world’s last hope for survival.

You can see more of Stardock’s Sorcerer King on its official website.