Establish your settlement, build your castle, and engage in siege warfare to defend your people in Stronghold, a unique "Castle Sim" combining the best aspects from City Builder and a Real-Time Strategy Game. Set in Medieval Europe, Stronghold challenges you with the daunting task of protecting your...
Establish your settlement, build your castle, and engage in siege warfare to defend your people in Stronghold, a unique "Castle Sim" combining the best aspects from City Builder and a Real-Time Strategy Game. Set in Medieval Europe, Stronghold challenges you with the daunting task of protecting your land from invasion, while keeping Lords, ladies, Jesters, Chicken, and much more.
Choose from four separate game modes: play the economic (non-combat) campaign; siege famous historical castles; test your castle building prowess in the "Siege That" challenge mode; or use the freebuilder mode to peacefully design your ideal castle.
Stronghold features single-player campaign consisting of 21 story-based missions. If you want more you can create new missions for you and your friends with full-featured map and scenario editor. Invite up to 8 players via LAN or over the Internet and get prepared for destruction waits outside your safe heaven, as the enemy prepares to storm the castle walls.
The new package includes the original Stronghold and Stronghold HD, which supports higher resolutions and the new HD battlefield view, which allows you to view the entire map.
The atmosphere of real medieval warfare 21 story-based missions where you can defend against and attack different foes.
Many unique game modes where you can besiege famous historical castles
Goodies
manual (67 pages)
Super Castle Attack mini game
soundtrack
Stronghold Excalibur Pack
HD wallpaper
Classic Stronghold (Windows)
Classic Stronghold (Mac)
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Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
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Mac notice: The game is 32-bit only and will not work on macOS 10.15 and up.
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To be clear, I really like the game, but I got to a point where the lack of shortcut keys made the game a chore, if not impossible to play. The inability to group units or quickly switch focus to a particular building makes the game just unenjoyable.
I have tried with both the GOG Mac version and the GOG Windows version through Porting Kit, and no dice.
I cannot believe how much enjoyment I have gotten out of this game. I am halfway through the campaign and things are still being unlocked. The game has found a good middle ground between frustratingly difficult and childishly simple. It is addicting and permits a lot of creative control. It seems like it will have great replayability.
Medieval Castle life at its best. A king captured, a land divided and you along with your trusted advisors are the realm's only hope. Place your keep, gather your food, build your walls and train your troops because beyond your borders an alliance of cunning lords are rallying their forces against you. Whilst thou prevail or whilst thine walls crumble to the glutinous duc truffe?
Stronghold offers a flawless mesh of castle industry and military battles. Keep your peasants happy with ale, food, religion and dancing bears or pump the gold out of them with high taxes and strike fear in them with the hangman's noose. It's all up to you. Train archers and crossbowmen to fend off the advancing hordes and sally forth from the keep with knights and maceman to bring hurt upon your foes. Make use of traps like killing pits and the river of fire to weaken ennemies before they arrive at the gate.
Graphics: 9/10
Nothing special by today's standards but it still looks great. Leaves shake, fire roars, arrows fly and massive armies advance with ease.
Sound: 9/10
Great Character voices especially during the mission briefing. Peasants speak in charming old english accents. Medieval Ambience music is primarily what you'll be hearing until the enemy arrives which changes to more dramatic and fast paced music.
Gameplay: 10/10
Fabulous campaign which introduces everything at a brilliant pace allowing players to perfect the use of certain buildings anf troops before being shown something new. Campaign has over 20 missions with varying difficulty. Lots of defense/attack missions involving historical castles and a whole campaign devoted to economics.
Replayability: 9/10
With difficulty ranging from easy to very hard, missions can be played over and over again without seeming repetitive. Challenges can always be tackled in different ways allowing for a different style each time.
Overall Score: 9.5/10
This was my very first RTS and by far my favorite PC game of all time. I've since played stronghold crusader, stronghold 2 and stronghold legends but none of them can compare to the original.
I hope you enjoy this game as much as I do.
"Ah sire, the barbarians are approaching!"
with this game I feel like going back 10 years in my life. Back then I used to play Age of Empires I 24h a day and 7 days a week. Stronghold is also a very addicting game and I love it as much as AoE. Stronghold has a very good tutorial and even later in the game every step is very well explained. One of the best games out there!
For me the best way I can describe the game is it's a kind of tower defense, rts, castle simulator. Not only do you defend and attack other people's castles but probably the most interesting part is the way they handle your resources for the game. There is a fairly deep economics strategy part to the game where you collect wood, stone, food, etc. to make and keep your population happy and ever growing.
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