Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
Medieval castle-building strategy focused on economies, management, and sieges
Firefly Studios · Released Oct 5, 2017
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 89% of 5,771
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 87% of 24 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 95
- peak 24h 97
- Steam Deck
- Unsupported
- Last update
- 1 year ago
- Aug 7, 2025
What is Stronghold 2: Steam Edition?
A medieval real-time strategy and castle management game built around production chains, public order, and siege warfare. Across campaigns and skirmish matches, you construct and run a castle, manage peasants and crime, raise armies, and attack rival lords as barons compete over a fractured kingdom.
For you if...
- +you enjoy complex production chains and hands-on castle management
- +you want both economic simulation and medieval siege warfare
- +you like campaigns, skirmishes, and competitive online matches
Not for you if...
- −you prefer strategy with fewer overlapping management systems
- −you dislike demanding campaigns that punish inefficient choices
What players say
89% of 5,771 reviews are positive · 87% of 24 in the last 30 days
Players most often praise the range of production chains, buildings, and day-to-day castle management. Common complaints cite punishing or poorly balanced siege scenarios, weak computer-controlled behavior, awkward unit controls, and technical problems on some modern systems.
Screenshots and trailer
Stronghold 2: Steam Edition system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11
- Processor
- 1.6 GHz Intel or AMD Processor
- Graphics
- 256 MB Video Card
- Memory
- 512 MB RAM
- Storage
- 3 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7/8/10/11
- Processor
- 2.3 GHz Intel or AMD Processor
- Graphics
- 512 MB Video Card
- Memory
- 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 3 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 33
- Steam features
- Workshop, Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Unsupported
- Not supported on SteamOS
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian. Text only: Simplified Chinese.
Tags
- City Builder
- Real Time Tactics
- Medieval
- Colony Sim
- Sandbox
- Building
- War
- Economy
- Management
- Military
- Strategy
- Base Building
- RTS
- Real-Time
- Isometric
- Top-Down
Recent updates
- Aug 7, 2025 · Crusader: DE - Update & DLC 1 Reveals
- Mar 28, 2024 · Valley of the Wolf & Spring Update - Coming April 30th!
- Oct 25, 2022 · Halloween Update 2022
- Jun 22, 2021 · Skirmish Trail Update
- Apr 13, 2021 · Free Warlords Update
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