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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“"Oh! Please, Your Highness! Not the rack again..." The nostalgia hit me almost instantly. Building your first castle, carefully managing your food supply, launching diseased cows over enemy walls, and then sending in a handful of Assassins to finish the job... somehow, it's…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“The best version of Stronhold Crusader so far, ton of content added for solo player as well as multiplayer and coop. The historical campaigns are a nice starter and decently challenging as well after getting back into Stronghold Crusader after years of not playing it. Especially…”
— a player, Steam review · 156 hrs played“Despite being a re-release of a 23 years old game as a "graphics upgrade" the devs somehow managed to implement bugs that were not present in the og version. The height system is turned off - a archer on tallest tower that is placed on top of a tallest mountain will have same…”
— a player, Steam review · 326 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
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Latest official news
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Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition v2.8.2 Patch
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition v2.8.2 Patch Notes Location indicator for player outpost in Sands of Time, Trail of the Vulture, Mission 4, "A Maze of Enemies" Sand of Time mission name text n
Patch for The Surgeon and Baibars DLC - Voiceline Volume and Surgeon Troop Fix
Greetings Sire! Today we're releasing a patch for some issues discovered in The Surgeon and Baibars DLC FIXES Fixed bug with the Surgeon CPU, where he was selling the weapons needed to generate some o
The Fourth Update and DLC Are Now Available!
Greetings Sire! The heat is on in the Summer Update! On top of the new CPU Lords and Sands of Time trail in the paid DLC, prepare to join forces in an all-new Co-Op Trail and master three brand-new ba
Stronghold 4 Q&A - Your Pressing Questions Answered!
May the sun bless your bounty, Sire! Today we’ll be discussing the juicy details about Stronghold 4, our latest mainline entry in the Stronghold series launching this year! We’re aiming to answer the
Stronghold Crusader DE's Fourth Major Update and DLC Is Coming!
Great word comes on the wind, Sire! Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition's Fourth Major Update and DLC arrives on August 4th! To all ye challengers, conquerors and would-be kings, and face the grea
Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · City Builder · Real Time Tactics · Medieval · Colony Sim · Building · War · Sandbox · Tower Defense · RTS · Base Building · Economy (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards |
| Languages | English * , French * , Italian * , German * , Spanish - Spain * , Czech, Dutch, Hungarian * , Japanese, Korean, Polish * , Portuguese - Brazil * , Russian * , Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turki… |
| Achievements | 41 |
| Official site | https://www.strongholdcrusader.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10/11 64 Bit Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-6100 or equivalent (Arm processors are not supported) Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Graphics Card with 2GB VRAM (for 1080p) or 3GB VRAM (for 1440p) or 4GB VRAM (for 4k) DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 7 GB available space