Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $14.99.
- Length
- 17.6h
- Value
- $0.85/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.49, set in September 2025. 30 discounts in the 3 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is pricier than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stronghold HD (2012) ($5.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition ($14.99, scores 52).
19 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,847 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
57% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
236 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2140020/stronghold-definitive-editionThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 19, price as of Sep 23.
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