Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
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Posted on: May 13, 2014
ZeaMoore4
Verified ownerGames: 77 Reviews: 15
WOW is this awesome!
I remembered loving this game as a young man, but now i'm really loving it. Had a little trouble running the game. Some kind of error on my Windows 8.1. Used the right mouse button on the desktop shortcut and clicked the search for error solutions. I said i needed to install service pack 3. I did, and no more troubles.
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Posted on: May 27, 2014
CorDharel
Games: 37 Reviews: 1
Best ever
After many years of searching I have concluded my search with the best game ever for me personally: Stronghold! Now with HD it still looks awesome and the castle defense + economy gameplay is so incredibly fun I love it. You will love it, too. This is a game for everyone!
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Posted on: August 30, 2022
cthonic_horror
Verified ownerGames: 234 Reviews: 1
Fun, but didn't age well.
Stronghold is an interesting dilemma. It floats in a primal soup of Tower Defense, RTS, Squad-Based Tactics (like Commandos), and City Manager. All of these parts were done above average quality for the time, making it more thant he sum of its parts, but today the seams are obvious. Stronghold has trouble synthesizing the proto-genres it explores into a cohesive experience. Generalism doesn't really work with Stronghold - the missions expect you to recognize what "type" of mission they are and optimize for that. Missions also feature a lot of scripting - you'll face the same waves of enemies at the same times, the same "surprise" demands will be made of you, the same "unexpected" problems will crop up. And if you aren't prepared for them ahead of time, you probably need to restart. The problem is there are no clues as to what's coming, so a lot of Stronghold comes down to the metagaming of learning to see the future. You can see how Stronghold would have been impressive in 2001: unlike most RTS-ish games, Stronghold terrain is both heightmapped at can be rotated at 90-degree angles - not a true 360, but you can see every side of something. Projectiles and their collisions are convincing - walls will block low-flying catapault shots but arced trebuchet shots will sail over. Bodies, trees, other buildings, cows, and more can also block projectiles, often to hilarious effect. Honestly it doesn't appear to be much different from what you'd see in a modern Total War game. It's impressive for the time and feels modern today. The controls, however, didn't age well, and are firmly a product of thier time, when nobody had really agreed on anything when it came RTS controls. Engineers and siege equipment are especially miserable to manage and control. Ultimately it was enjoyable enough to finish the "combat" campaign of, but I doubt I'll go back to it.
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Posted on: August 23, 2015
Xray_StyleZ
Verified ownerGames: 54 Reviews: 2
Best with bad balance
Great castle simulator where you can find interesting gameplay, so bad balance and terribly stupid AI. But try it!
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Posted on: October 6, 2016
Minnvin
Games: 211 Reviews: 3
simply fun
loved the origanl i still have it on cd it was one of my first games i ever played love this game still fun to this day simply fun one of the best games out there for castle building
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