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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!

Stronghold: Warlords is a city builder, real time tactics and colony sim game developed and published by FireFly Studios.
Released on March 09th 2021 is available only on Windows in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese.

It has received 5,005 reviews of which 3,251 were positive and 1,754 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.4 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 3.49€ on Steam with a 90% discount.

The Steam community has classified Stronghold: Warlords into these genres:

City Builder Real Time Tactics Colony Sim Building Sandbox Medieval Military Economy War Management Strategy Base-Building RTS Real-Time Historical Isometric Top-Down Open World Simulation Resource Management

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows 7/8/10/11
  • Processor: Intel i5-3330 3.0Ghz or AMD equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD7970 (2 GB VRAM)
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • Storage: 6 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Stronghold: Warlords - Special Edition requires 9 GB of available space

User reviews & Ratings

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April 2025
I don't understand why this game owns many negative reviews. Its great game and we do enjoy playing it as multiplayer even more than crusader. music and game play is amazing btw you can feel old China's culture with it 🌝
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Jan. 2025
Most of the negative comments about the game hold some truth, particularly regarding image quality. However, despite these critiques, this is an excellent Stronghold game and feels genuinely refreshing. The addition of new troops is a great enhancement, and the Warlord system adds an engaging layer of strategy. If you're a fan of the Stronghold series, especially Stronghold: Crusader, there's a good chance you'll enjoy this game as well. Personally, I’ve found the campaign enjoyable and well-designed so far.
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Jan. 2025
I've played every Stronghold game in existence, so I feel qualified to leave my opinion on this one. Stronghold: Warlords is a very fun and good game that receives unfair criticism. In my opinion Warlords is the best Stronghold release after Stronghold Crusader. In terms of game play, AI characters, having a skirmish mode, etc.. this game is great. The only thing I don't enjoy about this game is the warlords system, but in skirmish mode you can just disable that anyway. When it comes to 3D stronghold games, this is the best in the franchise by far. This game is a massive step in the right direction for 3D stronghold games, and makes me optimistic and excited for the next 3D stronghold that releases. Build off of this firefly and your next 3D stronghold game will be a huge winner. If you're a fan of Stronghold games and on the fence about Warlords, give it a try. I think you will find that you enjoy it and there's a lot of replayability and value here.
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Dec. 2024
For any Stronghold fan that isn’t sure if he wants to buy the game or not, since all the bad reviews of some people. First of all I played every Stronghold since Stronghold 1 to Crusader 2 and now SH: Warlords, so I guess what I’m talking about. The game is not bad as some people say, they played it for what 30 minutes to max 1.9h (so they can refund) and didn’t give the game a real try and just said its not Crusader or SH2 so their opinion that the game is “bad”, “terrible” can’t be counted, if you look up reviews of people that have played more than 10-50 hours the reviews are positive, so don’t let the negative reviews count, they aren’t honest. Now to the game, in my opinion the game is finally something that most of the Stronghold fanbase wanted and it still added something new to the game (Warlords), they returned back to the old basics of Crusader 1 and Stronghold 2 and added some things from Crusader 2 combined everything and some new things and did an execellent work on the game. Finally you don’t have some buildings that are most needed in the game (Mill) for 200 wood, things are well priced for resources making a good castle is cheaper than in Crusader 2 biggest tower costs 50 stone SC2 180-220 stone, wood finally isn’t a problem anymore keeping track of the economy is easier aswell, building is the chance of building roads is amazing aswell. When it comes to sieging and defending mechanics nothing much changed the only thing that changed is the balancing in Crusader 2 you make 40 War Wolfs and 20 Mantlets, put some pikeman and sassanid knights to defend them and you breach the castle (doesn’t matter double wall health and strong walls), here the strong walls and double wall health is really effective. There is a variety of units that you can use and that give you combinations (dmg buff, def buff). For multiplayer sometimes it freezes and crashes but so does Crusader 2, Stronghold 2, Crusader 1 all of them crash happens it sucks but thats how it is. For people crying maps are boring and small and all of that well you got map editor like in SC2 and steamworkshop if you can’t find a map for yourself then do it yourself and dont complain. So overall I would say the game is pretty good. Would I pay 40€ for it? No because I wouldn’t pay for any game more than 20€, but when its on sale you can get base edition for 7€ and with all DLC (with all the DLCs has the game about 60-80h gameplay) for around 15-20€ so its worth it. The game is pretty good some things would need some changes but I would rate it a solid 8/10. Doesn’t matter if you play campaing or multiplayer you will enjoy the game and have a lot of fun with friends. This is a real honest review happy to answer any questions in commentary.
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Aug. 2024
As for now only got 7 hours played, finished jungle campaign which was fantastic, playing many skirmishes and freebuild. Checked out some mapmaking vids on youtube Game is quite intuitive, maps can be huge, gameplay is amazing, combat looks nice, im positively surprised a lot After finishing campaign missions cutscenes play 2 times with glitched audio sometimes, to be fixed Archers sometimes dont targed invasions forces with clean LOS, need hand targeting or re-moving Other than that, first game of the series since SH1 and SHC1 I reeeeally enjoyed. Amazing job Talewords
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Frequently Asked Questions

Stronghold: Warlords is currently priced at 3.49€ on Steam.

Stronghold: Warlords is currently available at a 90% discount. You can purchase it for 3.49€ on Steam.

Stronghold: Warlords received 3,251 positive votes out of a total of 5,005 achieving a rating of 6.38.
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Stronghold: Warlords was developed and published by FireFly Studios.

Stronghold: Warlords is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Stronghold: Warlords is not playable on MacOS.

Stronghold: Warlords is not playable on Linux.

Stronghold: Warlords offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Stronghold: Warlords offers both Co-op and PvP modes.

There are 5 DLCs available for Stronghold: Warlords. Explore additional content available for Stronghold: Warlords on Steam.

Stronghold: Warlords is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.

Stronghold: Warlords does not support Steam Remote Play.

Stronghold: Warlords is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Stronghold: Warlords
-90% 34.99€ 3.49€ -86% 34.99€ 4.96€ -84% 34.99€ 5.78€
6.4
3,251
1,754
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
98
Developer
FireFly Studios
Publisher
FireFly Studios
Release 09 Mar 2021
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