Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

Hey played this game for 25 Hours,
Nostalgic game, just brilliant game fun to play just try it for yourself

great classic game

I love this game. I played it as a kid and again 15 years later as an adult. The campaign and 50 missions are quite challenging. The average player will not be able to beat them all without learning to cheese certain mechanics.

"Still one of the best castle-building games ever made."

I don’t even know how many hours I’ve sunk into this game over the years. Stronghold Crusader HD might be old, but it still holds up surprisingly well. The mix of base-building, resource management, and real-time battles makes it super addictive.

The AI lords have their own personalities (some are hilarious, some are straight-up annoying), and it's always fun trying to outsmart them. Nothing beats building up your castle, defending it from waves of enemies, and then launching a counterattack with a swarm of archers and fire ballistas.

Also, the soundtrack is still a banger.

If you like classic RTS games with a medieval flair, this one’s a gem. Just be prepared for some janky pathfinding now and then—it’s part of the charm at this point 😂

Best RTS game ever made. I have memories of this game when i was little , playing it in adulthood made me realize how much love this game was made with. The Skirmish Mode , the best mode ever made in any RTS game, multiplayer is something that will elevate the experience even more. Become the Christian Lord and fight with honor , or become the Arabian Lord and raid and set ablaze empires without mercy.

Played game when I was little kid, countless hours after school etc. Now I have played it again and I still got it, 100+ hours to complete 80 trail missions + historical campaign and also if you like, you can do skirmishes. I had a version which didnt have extra characters (sheriff, emperor, nizar, wazir, emir, marshal, abbot, philip) and also I didnt have extreme or warchest trail. Later on I discovered that there is more lords and trails, since it was long time ago, at the time USB flashdrives were really hard to get for me (kid), I become creative and used floppy disks, I used many floppy disks and eventually got extra lords, but I never got warchest trail. So yeah there is my story, all time favorite, started with Stronghold OG, and then Crusader. Love it, I recommend it, timeless classic. Looking forward for DE.

Pathfinding is a little bit bad, but it's an old game, you know. Even with the base AI, the game is very fun. The lords are full of personality, which really help bringing the gameplay to life.

A blast from the past. A proof that you can do so much more for so much less

this good but try stonghold crusader 2 its better

A Classic RTS game from my childhood. it is a good game for relaxation

just finished stronghold 1 DEFINITE edition, and this one seems cool but old comparing to definitive edition,
also just tried demo of upcoming DEFINITIVE edition of this one , it is nice and seems fun like stronghold 1DE,
and great it is coming soon, i will wait for stronghold crusader definitive

I am a proud owner of the physical copy of Stronghold Crusader. The number of hours i put in this game is disgustingly higher than what is stated here. I was 13 yo and i managed to finish all the first 50 mission by age 14. This game at that time was NUTS. I hope that definitive edition won't fall short behind

great game, cool to play during classes at school

Best Strategy Game ever !!!
it gives Nostalgia + G-Old

This is the greatest game ever made. Many have tried and failed to make a better game. Firefly has tried and failed to recreate this magic, but all have failed.

Well well well, what else to say about this other than it being one of the absolute best and fun games ever made. It was part of my childhood and I started playing it back then when I was a noob and even struggled with the 1st missions. Now after so many years and with the help of the community and a team which created the UPC and so much fixes and quality of life improvements, this game truly passed the test of time and is still fun. Especially the aggressive AI mode is what I recommend for people who want a good challenge for completing the skirmish mode. The vanilla version of the AI on some maps is sadly bad. With the UPC 3.0.7 this game becomes even better and can still be highly enjoyed nowadays!

hala çalışıyor olması bile bi mucize. tek kelimeyle olağanüstü

I played this game since I was in grade 3, At that time, this is the only game which can run on my PC without any problem. But right now, Both my PC and Laptop can run most of the modern advanced games. But I still play this masterpiece, sometimes whole day having a feeling that this is the only game I can play in my Laptop.

game is very is running ugly on modern systems but it's incredibly awesome, best old stronghold game, classic stronghold should be redone like this

I remember playing this game back in 2012, such good memories. Game is old yet the playstyle is amazing. Really fun game def buy it.

Unbalanced but fun

Great game!

I really enjoyed playing this game again - one of my favourite childhood games!

Stronghold Crusader is my favorite in the Stonghold series of games. The back story is loosely based on historical events and the characters and game progression make sense in a way that they don't in the original Stronghold game. The resource gathering and building mechanics is excellent. The battle mechanics is not as good as some other games more focused on medieval battle simulations perhaps but over all, Stonghold Crusade is a good buy and I really recommend it.

this game is literally my childhood, it is very unique and a great RTS game

Pretty fun RTS. Kind of limited in terms of units but I enjoy the resource management, castle building, and different maps that test your ability to handle different terrains and natural resources surrounding you. There is a single player mode where you can either do random missions or play semi historic missions that follow different periods of the crusades. Would recommend :D

Don't buy. At some point in, about 10 missions in, this so-called 'game' starts "flashing" whatever is in the background of your desktop if there's even anything at all and there's no way to stop it. It becomes really annoying after a while. If anything steam and the devs should pay us users to play this "game" in the state it's in now. Hopefully the "definitive edition" will fix it. I'd like a refund but I went over the limits.

Deus Vult!
A very fun game about the very based and completely justified Crusades.

I've played for 16 hrs already, shouldn't that say enough! They're coming out with a new one in July 2025, and I bought a hard copy of this game so I'm never without it again. 10/10

This game is amazing, but the HD version crashes a lot.

I love this game. Still good as it was 10 years ago. 10/10 of need wood M'lord

played an original CD copy when i barely knew how to use a computer, honestly as psychotic as this might be to some people i consider this the best RTS game of the entire genre. it just barely supersedes C&C for me and its solely the castlebuilding that does it for me, i have played this game over the course of my entire life on and off.

it runs perfect on the steam deck btw. fucking. Incredible

THE OG CEREAL BOX GAME! 10/10

Can't even delete a placed building bruh.

I have probably put several thousand hours into this game if you count all of the hours I spent on it off and on through all 4 years of high school. This was one of my favorite games of all time. My wife still makes jokes about "wood needed" because I think I drove her insane with it. LOL Definitely recommend 110%. This was a blast from the past. Fantastic.

This game will be hard to do and will take long to beat. But in those times there is a addict that wakes up in you and will never stop

I've spent hours looking online on how to get the game to open, no way i can recommend a game that doesn't even open and nothing online fixes the issue. Don't waste your money.

The multiplayer is insane.

The voice acting in this game is top notch. Ever wondered wondered what it was like to listen to someone get burned alive? How about the sound someone makes when they've met their untimely demise from being struck by a stone thrown from a sling? No? How about the sound of one choking and gargling on their own blood as they're cut down to size from the steel of a fierce knight or bludgeoned to death by an English man flailing a mace? Also no? Well that's good to hear. However, if you're looking for a challenging RTS, then look no further. Build your army. Siege you enemy. Take no prisoners. The horns of glory await you, my friend.

If I could give this game a two thumbs up, I would.

I played 574 hours

and now since 2 months,
I have the display on windows 2
and the game(a black square)

Why is the game on two screens

NOBODY knows or want to help me,

SOOOOO SAAd

great timeless game. absolute classic you can waste hours of time on

I love this game and I know whoever search this game loves this game and they have played it alot.

Feels weird being prompted to write a review about the original Stronghold Crusader.
It's Stronghold Crusader. It's THE medieval RTS game right after Age2, there's nothing else on this level.
It's just objectively good. I don't need to sell this to anyone. If you don't play this, that's your problem.

Once you understand the game you cant stop playing it 10/10

Its old! But fun! The new merc troops give the game new troops and strats to play with other than that is stronghold... whats not to like!

10/10 even after 20+ years after launch, it really stands the test of time..

Classic.

For the younger crowd the controls, layout and graphics might not be what they are used to. But at the core is a great game.

Peak Stronghold, the 2nd and strangely enough last good stronghold game to ever be released aside from a certain remaster

This is proof that Stronghold should have never gone away from its iconic 2D artstyle

Great game but it's so unbalanced. You can't survive 20 minutes without being walked all over by the AI.

old time classic. one of the best castle building systems in the world hands down

Old but gold. Great strategy game for beginners