Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
Worth it · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 70% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$14.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.4970% offWorth it
- Cost per hourS
- $0.89/hr
- ReviewsA
- 89% of 5,839
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.9h
- To 100%
- 38.9h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 33
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $3.74 October 2021
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 250 now
- Recent reviews
- 89% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 16% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 89 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 5 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 3 percent. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) ($9.99, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition ($14.99, scores 75).
More about Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
2 of the 700 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, 60 percent of the 277 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.9 hours. Doing everything runs 39, 2.3 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
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
Stronghold 2: Steam Edition First of all, I love the Stronghold games! Probably one of my top RTS games of all-time. This collection comes with Stronghold HD, Stronghold Crusader HD, Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD, Stronghold 2 and Stronghold Legends. This is highly recommended. This collection had endless hours of gameplay. 10/10
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 256 MB Video Card, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Stronghold 2: Steam Edition scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/40960/stronghold-2-steam-editionReviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.