Stronghold 3 Gold
Skip · Strategy · 2012
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $29.99.
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- 33% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, 5 GB of storage. Windows only.
Set 10 years after the original, Stronghold 3: Gold follows the vengeful story of The Wolf in the third installment of the award-winning castle building series. The Wolf has cheated death become even more bitter and twisted. Build castles, rally your troops and save medieval England!
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
December 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. Its cuts run 85 percent off as a rule. There have been 119 in the 14 years tracked, about 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.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Stronghold Crusader 2 ($39.99, scores 38) outscores it, and so does Stronghold: Definitive Edition ($14.99, scores 68). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 795 reviews written there were positive, against 33 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
Players
6 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Stronghold 3 Gold scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/47400/stronghold-3-goldThe 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 1, price as of Sep 24.
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