Strategy · October 27, 2009

The Stronghold Collection (2009)

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Enjoy the complete medieval experience in The Stronghold Collection, featuring five real-time strategy games. Create and defend your castle stronghold as you expand your lands, survey the castle life in your domain, host great jousting festivals and feasts, or conduct public executions to keep the peasantry in line. Features The ultimate medieval RTS package contains: Stronghold: The original castle sim that started it all Stronghold 2: The King, having fled after the defeat of his own armies, now attempts to rule his country from a secret location. Powerful barons now jostle for what is fast becoming a disintegrating kingdom – it is up to you to stem the tides of their ambition and unite the land under the king again! Stronghold Crusader: Journey to distant Arabian lands renowned for brave warriors and fearsome weaponry as you lead a determined group of Crusaders. Now you have the chance to relive the historic Crusades in four campaigns as Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, the Sultan of Syria. Stronghold Crusader Extreme: Extreme adds on 20 new missions, new buildings, and larger armies of 10,000 troops. Stronghold Legends: Lead as fantasy characters throughout history: King Arthur and the forces of Camelot, Siegfried and Dietrich in the German Ice Campaign, and unleash the fury of the forces of evil in Vlad Dracul’s Transylvania. Updated for Windows 7 and Vista compatibility

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • City Builder · 326
  • Real Time Tactics · 304
  • Medieval · 301
  • Colony Sim · 297
  • Sandbox · 291
  • Building · 290
  • Management · 274
  • Economy · 274
  • War · 272
  • Military · 269
  • Strategy · 268
  • Base-Building · 267
  • RTS · 257
  • Real-Time · 253
  • Isometric · 158

Position in Strategy

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume5.2k Steam reviewsTop 61% in Strategy
Positive rating89% positiveGenre average: 84% — this title sits in top 43%

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Release & Availability

Release dateOct 27, 2009
DeveloperFireFly Studios
Base price$24.99
PlatformsWindows
Estimated owners100k–1M
External linksSupport

Reception Metrics

Steam community

89%Very Positive · 5.2k reviews

4.7k positive · 577 negative

Curator recommendations

4.6k

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (4)

  • English
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish - Spain

Features & Capabilities

Multiplayer

  • Multi-player

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Editions & Packages

  • Buy The Stronghold Collection