Stronghold 2: Steam Edition

Buy89%

Very Positive · 6k player reviews · High confidence

Yes, worth buying.

Firefly Studios · City Builder · Oct 5, 2017

Player review score
89%
Very Positive
Price
$14.99
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
33
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
8
Full audio7 of 8
Subtitles7 of 8

Should I buy Stronghold 2: Steam Edition?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 35 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 30 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story: 23 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Multiplayer: 31 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Crashes: 11 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 11 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 6k player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
59% of themes are praise8% are divided33% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
35 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
It is feeling a little dated and is missing some quality of life features (like autosave), but it's a solid castle builder
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
30 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
A huge amount of buildings, decent variety of troops, AI is still kinda bad and I'm OK with it, story is OK, graphics and artstyle are good and the OST is just gorgeous.
Story
Players who bring up Story mostly praise it.
23 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
+Traditional campaign offers a fun story with practice for the skirmish mode
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
13 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Castle sieges are where this game shines as combat is a bit more realistic.
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
9 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
The multiplayer is fun too, having you and your friends build up to watch each other kingdoms fall is pretty fun.
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
5 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
10/10 for voice acting over 300 names and then bothering to set up "Frankie" as a female just anticipating that I would buy this game and get upset enough to have to edit the mp3 file so I can play it!

+1 more players loved

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay35 reviews
Graphics30 reviews
Story23 reviews
Combat13 reviews
Co-op9 reviews
Audio5 reviews
Performance5 reviews
Divided opinion
Servers and matchmaking
100% still recommend
Players complain
Multiplayer
84% still recommend
Crashes
36% still recommend
Bugs
45% still recommend
Difficulty
67% still recommend

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Multi-player
  • Online PvP
  • PvP
  • Single-player

Controller

Steam lists no controller support.

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckUnsupported
SteamOSUnsupported
Steam MachineUnsupported

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Prices have been lower
$14.99

The lowest we've tracked is $3.74.

7 points recordedtoday · $14.99

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