Stronghold HD (2012) on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.

Stronghold HD (2012) is a real time tactics, city builder and colony sim game developed and published by FireFly Studios.
Released on October 21st 2013 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 9,805 reviews of which 9,370 were positive and 435 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.3 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam.


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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS *: Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11
  • Processor: 1.6GHz equivalent Intel or AMD processor
  • Memory: 512MB RAM
  • Video: 64MB video card with hardware Transform & Lighting
  • Hard Drive: 2.5GB uncompressed free space
  • Sound: DirectX 7 compatible sound card or higher
  • Direct X: DirectX 9.0c (included) or higher
  • Multiplayer: GameRanger software will be installed for mutiplayer matchmaking support

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March 2025
Still absolutely love this game! After so many years of nostalgia, I can still come back and enjoy the economic and military campgains. My first game was in fact Stronghold Crusader and at first I didn't like this game and thought it is boring. However now I set myself the challenge to beat everything on "very hard" difficulty, which is really fun and truly a nice challenge! If you give the game a chance there is a high chance you will forget your real life and dive into the Stronghold world :)
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Feb. 2025
Turns out there's actually a game behind the TikTok edits, and it's awesome.
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Jan. 2025
The game of my childhood, IT IS A CLASSIC YOU SHOULD NOT PASS BY, story is awesome and funny and the medieval feel is off the charts!
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Dec. 2024
One of the most memorable, legendary and best medieval builder so far. Firefly Studios made childhood of most of us really sweet and awesome. I still remember that back in those times I didn't have computer myself, so in order to play this, and couple of other games I had to visit my cousin. Those golden times of CDs and paper gaming magazines. That nostalgia.
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May 2024
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent β˜‘ Bad ☐ Donβ€˜t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- β˜‘ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good β˜‘ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens β˜‘ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- β˜‘ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk β˜‘ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master β˜‘ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- β˜‘ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average β˜‘ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short β˜‘ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price β˜‘ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- β˜‘ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 β˜‘ 9 ☐ 10
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Stronghold HD (2012)
9.3
9,370
435
Online players
118
Developer
FireFly Studios
Publisher
FireFly Studios
Release 21 Oct 2013
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