Stronghold Crusader 2
Skip · Strategy · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 38, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $4.54/hr
- Reviews▼
- 72% of 18,178
- Genre rank
- Top 32% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Recent reviews trending up: 80% over the last 30 days against 72% all-time.
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.8h
- To 100%
- 138.8h 15.8x the story
- Finish
- 24% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 81
Price and sales
- Sales
- 109 on record
- Typical cut
- 90% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 February 2018
- Sale every
- 39d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 134 now
- Recent reviews
- 80% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 45% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
55% start to 24% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 109 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 32 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).
More about Stronghold Crusader 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 18. Players rate it 72 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 80 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 6 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2024 to October 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 11 percent of everything written about it.
8.8 hours to finish it, 139 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 16 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 12 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
After recent updates. Games outright cheats. Ai will throw WAY more gold than they can physically posses. Spawn troops from nothing directly ontop of their lord. Artifical difficulty gives it a bit more push from the AI. But the gameplay is still at its core the same stronghold its always been.
1 more review
great sim for solo or PVE/PVP. wished more would play it and they would keep making newer versions
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Stronghold Crusader 2 scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232890/stronghold-crusader-2Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.