Stronghold HD

I like it, not to complicated.

It was my first RTS game, but with HD mode it stll plays well

The original Stronghold is a game near and dear to my heart. First introduced to me when I was a wee lad it offered basic city management with a basic, but strategic, battle system. The game itself can be chalenging at times jumping between managing a city life keeping your citizens happy and well fed whilst trying to acrue taxes to fund for defensive/offensive maneuvers. I won't lie, it's nothing groundbreaking. But this game was a core contender for what got me into stratergy games when I was younger. It's dated, the concept has been done a hundred times before. But this game had it all and was, for me, the beginning of my love for RTSs. Firefly Studios is a solid company who have a lot of passion for the medieval ages and you can see that in the Stronghold series. Honestly, for £1 you cannot go wrong. Get this game and even if you only spend an hour playing the basic missions you only lost £1. I can't do this game justice for how much fun I have playing it and the childhood memories of playing this with my dad hold this game near and dear to my heart. 10/10 for childhood memories. 8/10 for graphics (they really do still hold up today) 7/10 gameplay 9/10 enjoyment managing and fighting 10/10 difficulty settings, mapping AI to the equivalent numbers 9/10 mechanics, very basic but enough to keep things interesting 6/10 replayability after main campaign 10/10 seiges/invasion maps 10/10 price, did I mention it's REALLY cheap? Get it, release seratonin into your life, if you haven't experienced it I promise you aren't missing much but you'll be so glad you found this hidden gem. Got the other games in the seriese wishlisted.

This game never gets old.

Used to play this game a lot....really enjoying it again!