Stronghold Crusader 2
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 8.8h
- Value
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews
- 72% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT 512MB or AMD Radeon HD 2900XT 512MB or better, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in February 2018. It has been discounted 107 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 90 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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.
Value puts it in the top 33 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Stronghold: Definitive Edition ($14.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold 3 Gold ($29.99, scores 2).
Steam's global achievement data puts 24 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2024 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 1,449 reviews written there were positive, against 72 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
8.8 hours to finish it, 139 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 16 times the campaign.
The drop-off
55% start to 24% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
217 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Unga dunga make 300 slave, unga dunga make 20 trebuchet, unga dunga make castle fall down.
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Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Stronghold Crusader 2 scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232890/stronghold-crusader-2The 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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