Reviews from

in the past


The greatest RTS known to mankind.

I prefer the lush green lands of the first game and i miss its campaign, but the addition of a skirmish mode and so many maps makes up for it. Mercenaries are a funny addition, horse archers are great.
Oh, and if you have enough religion and booze you can starve the peasants and extort ridiculous taxes from them, which i feel can be seen as a social commentary of sorts.

the game was so good, u only needed the demo for skirmishes, i'm not kidding


One of my first strategy games, I remember the first time I played it at my brother's house in 2015 over the summer. In any case, to this day I still know how to turn it on and play a few rounds. An interesting strategy game for the year it was made


a message from the lionheart

Really good for it's time, i remember spending hours playing it when i was a kid. Give it a try if you don't mind older games. Only bumping from 4 stars to 5 stars because i've met one of my best friends playing online and we've been friends ever since.

Well, its less good that age of empire...
Less pretty
Less cheatcode
Less gamemode
Less content and variety of troups
A creative mods...kind of weird
And the story mod is as good as age of empire...its ok

But its still a solid game with a different pacing and with his own tweak like the multiples character that you can fight, who all have their way to attack, defend and react

But if you cant stand age of empire, avoid this game

My favourite strategy game. I know it has flaws, but it nails the atmosphere like nothing else.

I finished it once as a child and haven't touched it since. I thought it was cool that, compared to the first part, there were mercenaries with whom you could destroy and burn everything relatively early on :D I also thought the dialogue with the 3D faces was very cute.

A good game, I didn't pay this game at the golden age of this series and played recently however still can be played againist it's pretty old visuals.

I have a soft spot for this game, because I played it at ripe age of 10. Very funny polish dubbing, popularity mechanic, economy, sieges. It aged well and is seemingly far superior to lets say Age of Empires. But there is something. Usually, becoming good at the game adds more satisfaction. But with Stronghold you'll discover how unbalanced and buggy it is. However, it's absolute blast for noobs! Especially versus friends.

I've spent hundreds of hours, but still unable to fully complete this game.

It could be better but, according to the year of release, I think it was good.
With the Persian dub, it was nice. «سرباز کماندار عرب»