Stronghold: Warlords
Skip · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 13, under the fair line, at $39.99.
- Length
- 18.7h
- Value
- $2.14/hr
- Reviews
- 65% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD7970 (2 GB VRAM), 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
March 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. It has been discounted 59 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition ($14.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold Kingdoms (free, scores 12).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 700 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 684 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
84% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
29 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 08:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Even though the graphics look better, overall, the Stronghold Crusader installment is more fun. T....T
It's not Stronghold, but I like it. I think if you consider it a different kind of strategy game, you'll like it too. I love the music and sound effects in this game, and the gameplay is pretty good. What else would you expect from a Stronghold 3D game?
Game cant be started anymore. It just blackscreens and you hear a few second of sound. Then nothing happens. It worked fine a few months ago. Terrible game. DONT BUY!
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Stronghold: Warlords scores 13/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/907650/stronghold-warlordsReviews 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 Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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