Stronghold HD (2012)
BANGER · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $5.99. Typically $1.79 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.31/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 10,491
- Critics
- 81 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 19.5h
- To 100%
- 31.3h 1.6x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 103 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $1.19 June 2017
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 232 now
- Cheaper than
- 54% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
103 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 70 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is better reviewed than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold: Definitive Edition ($14.99, scores 68).
$22.71 is where it would stop being a BANGER.
More about Stronghold HD (2012)
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 96 percent. A 15-point gap in the buyer's favour.
2 of the 498 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 983 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 12 days ago.
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
it's litterally peak, i got no words to describe this lovely game❤️❤️❤️so fun when they destroy your granary and you loose more than 300 units of food😍😍😍or maybe when almost a thousand men attack your castle when you got 10 archers, broken walls trapping your spearmen and the whole england attacking the king💕👍👍👍 peak game 10/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Played stronghold crusader, Now I know by playing this game what wolf was referring to when mentioning my father, Awesome game and Good Missions XD
stop sending me emails.. i no care abolt your mew games and stuff.. you are annoying!! :(
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64MB video card with hardware Transform & Lighting, 2.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Stronghold HD (2012) scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40950/stronghold-hd-2012Reviews 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.