The Stronghold Collection

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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.

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Developer:
Firefly Studios
Publisher:
2K Games
Release date:
27 October 2009
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Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (50)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (2151)

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Description

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

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
Processor:
1.6GHz equivalent Intel or AMD processor
Memory:
512MB RAM
Video:
64MB video card with hardware Transform & Lighting
Hard Drive:
2.5GB uncompressed free space
Sound:
DirectX 7 compatible sound card or higher
Direct X/reg;:
DirectX 9.0c (included) or higher

recommended*

Not specified

User reviews

PaintedHimself
Recommended | 26 Jun 2026
13.4h played

Amazing game! I played this ass a kid and somehow love it more as an adult. I do not recommend the later non-crusader games tho. The 4th in this series is coming out soon and I really hope they went back to this entry!

Helpful: 3
Pb_Au_Alchemist
Not recommended | 18 Jun 2026
2.8h played

The best Castle building game...and then they have you storm a castle with garbage troops helped by an AI that attacks empty walls. I bought this game seeing that Stronghold 4 is on the way. I hope they stick more with

Helpful: 3
Maroon
Recommended | 01 Jul 2026
94.9h played

I love the Stronghold series. HOWEVER, I don't think any of the Stronghold games since have managed to capture the magic of this one. The level of detail for a game that was released in 2005 was incredible. I love the

Helpful: 4
roger
Recommended | 20 Jun 2026
24.5h played

Such a wonderful, replayable game! Never beaten the final level but keep trying. Looking forward to Stronghold 4!

Helpful: 12
MH0_0
Recommended | 18 Jul 2026
11.0h played

I've been playing this game since I was a kid, and I still enjoy it just as much. I still play it and I absolutely love it, especially the story mode. Just like the Stronghold games, I'd love to see this game get a

Helpful: 0
Nubby
Recommended | 14 Jun 2026
37.1h played

very fun. Great game to pass the time ive got way more then 37 hrs as i played the disc wayyyyy back so id say i have around 800 hrs in this game just playing it.

Helpful: 4