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The Stronghold Collection
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 p
What players say
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“One of the best RTS games ever made. The core game itself is still just as good as it always was. Stronghold 2 remains one of the most unique and enjoyable castle-building RTS games ever made. But there is one gargantuan problem. The developers chose not to keep AI enemies in…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs played“Used to love the Strongholds series as a kid. But now I see it haven't aged very well. Most of the gameplay itself is fine, but there are two major factors why I give it a negative review and its the AI. It's either terrible or cheating like crazy. One game I played 2v1 where…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“The game force you to attack strongholds with a tiny army. And the control is junk, troops get stuck in the stairwells. The rule is, if you don't have absolute advantage, like 1000 against 100, you should NOT attack in the first place. It's realistic that, it's impossible to…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs playedPrice tracking
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Real Time Tactics · Medieval · Colony Sim · Sandbox · Building · Management · Economy · War · Military · Strategy · Base-Building (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German, Italian, Spanish - Spain |
| Achievements | 33 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
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