Stronghold: Warlords on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!

Stronghold: Warlords is a city builder, real time tactics and colony sim game developed and published by FireFly Studios.
Released on March 09th 2021 is available only on Windows in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese.

It has received 4,950 reviews of which 3,216 were positive and 1,734 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.4 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 5.78€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Stronghold: Warlords into these genres:

City Builder Real Time Tactics Colony Sim Building Sandbox Medieval Military Economy War Management Strategy Base-Building RTS Real-Time Historical Isometric Top-Down Open World Simulation Resource Management

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7/8/10/11
Processor: Intel i5-3330 3.0Ghz or AMD equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD7970 (2 GB VRAM)
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 6 GB available space
Additional Notes: Stronghold: Warlords - Special Edition requires 9 GB of available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

I don't understand why this game owns many negatives reviews. Its great game and we do enjoy playing it as multiplayer even more than crusader. music and game play is amazing btw you can feel old China's culture with it 🌝

Jan. 2025

Most of the negative comments about the game hold some truth, particularly regarding image quality. However, despite these critiques, this is an excellent Stronghold game and feels genuinely refreshing. The addition of new troops is a great enhancement, and the Warlord system adds an engaging layer of strategy. If you're a fan of the Stronghold series, especially Stronghold: Crusader, there's a good chance you'll enjoy this game as well. Personally, I’ve found the campaign enjoyable and well-designed so far.

Dec. 2024

For any Stronghold fan that isn’t sure if he wants to buy the game or not, since all the bad reviews of some people. First of all I played every Stronghold since Stronghold 1 to Crusader 2 and now SH: Warlords, so I guess what I’m talking about. The game is not bad as some people say, they played it for what 30 minutes to max 1.9h (so they can refund) and didn’t give the game a real try and just said its not Crusader or SH2 so their opinion that the game is “bad”, “terrible” can’t be counted, if you look up reviews of people that have played more than 10-50 hours the reviews are positive, so don’t let the negative reviews count, they aren’t honest. Now to the game, in my opinion the game is finally something that most of the Stronghold fanbase wanted and it still added something new to the game (Warlords), they returned back to the old basics of Crusader 1 and Stronghold 2 and added some things from Crusader 2 combined everything and some new things and did an execellent work on the game. Finally you don’t have some buildings that are most needed in the game (Mill) for 200 wood, things are well priced for resources making a good castle is cheaper than in Crusader 2 biggest tower costs 50 stone SC2 180-220 stone, wood finally isn’t a problem anymore keeping track of the economy is easier aswell, building is the chance of building roads is amazing aswell. When it comes to sieging and defending mechanics nothing much changed the only thing that changed is the balancing in Crusader 2 you make 40 War Wolfs and 20 Mantlets, put some pikeman and sassanid knights to defend them and you breach the castle (doesn’t matter double wall health and strong walls), here the strong walls and double wall health is really effective. There is a variety of units that you can use and that give you combinations (dmg buff, def buff). For multiplayer sometimes it freezes and crashes but so does Crusader 2, Stronghold 2, Crusader 1 all of them crash happens it sucks but thats how it is. For people crying maps are boring and small and all of that well you got map editor like in SC2 and steamworkshop if you can’t find a map for yourself then do it yourself and dont complain. So overall I would say the game is pretty good. Would I pay 40€ for it? No because I wouldn’t pay for any game more than 20€, but when its on sale you can get base edition for 7€ and with all DLC (with all the DLCs has the game about 60-80h gameplay) for around 15-20€ so its worth it. The game is pretty good some things would need some changes but I would rate it a solid 8/10. Doesn’t matter if you play campaing or multiplayer you will enjoy the game and have a lot of fun with friends. This is a real honest review happy to answer any questions in commentary.

Aug. 2024

As for now only got 7 hours played, finished jungle campaign which was fantastic, playing many skirmishes and freebuild. Checked out some mapmaking vids on youtube Game is quite intuitive, maps can be huge, gameplay is amazing, combat looks nice, im positively surprised a lot After finishing campaign missions cutscenes play 2 times with glitched audio sometimes, to be fixed Archers sometimes dont targed invasions forces with clean LOS, need hand targeting or re-moving Other than that, first game of the series since SH1 and SHC1 I reeeeally enjoyed. Amazing job Talewords

May 2024

It's definitely glad to see a new saga of STRONGHOLD telling eastern Asian legends. However, the differences among factions are so hard to tell. I used to expect that it was going to be several different factions at least including China, Japan, Korea, Mongol, Vietnam. But finally it is a single confusing furnace of cultures. Hope you make WARLORD II one day to make a real eastern Asian style game.

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