Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery
Choice of Games · 2025 · RPG, Interactive Fiction, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Dragons
PC
6 user reviews33% · 6
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About Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery
Deep beneath the earth, the dragon is rising! Quest into mysterious underground caverns and forests to learn magical secrets, draw strength from friends and family, secure alliances that can save your home, and carry on the heroic legacy of Stronghold!Stronghold: Caverns of Sorcery is an interactive fantasy novel by Amy Griswold, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based—380,000 words and hundreds of choices—without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.You’re the grandchild of your town’s legendary heroic leader, and everyone’s always expected great things from you. So when you began to study sorcery, you intended to prove them all right—until your magical experiments disturbed a sleeping dragon in the depths of the mountain caves. Now you’ll have to discover something even more powerful if you’re going to save your town and help your family’s legacy endure for generations to come.Delve deep into ancient caverns to find more fuel for your sorcery—along with unexpected allies and places for secure fortified camps. But there are also fragile wonders beneath the earth: will your efforts to protect your town threaten the dryads and treasures in the caverns? Learn mystic lore to strengthen your fight against the dragon—alchemy, magic, or even the knot-work enchantments of goblins and spiders—or raise an army from among your loyal townsfolk and allies. Or maybe, just maybe, you can bargain with the dragon—if you dare.• Play as male, female, or non-binary; gay or straight.• Continue the saga of the town founded in Stronghold: A Hero’s Fate, and see the effects of your actions two generations later.• Marry a spouse (or two), or form a new family with a sworn sibling.• Explore vast underground caverns to unearth secrets and treasures.• Reconcile with your grandparent and uphold their position in your town - or convince everyone to defy authority and claim leadership yourself!• Rebuild an ancient tower into the perfect workshop for mastering sorcery!• Fight goblins, spiders, and dryads - or make them your allies against the dragon.• Bond with your friends: help them make difficult decisions, influence their views on important issues, and play matchmaker for them!How long can your stronghold stand against the dragon’s wrath?
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
You guys need to release these games with chapter checkpoints, like many of your contemporaries do. Its so frustrating to fail checks because of how vaguely you decide to word a choice.12 found this helpful
Looking for a character driven story? Well despite the beginning where you're introduced to an established friend group and the numerous relationship stats bogging down the stat page, this is not it. Sometimes it even feels like the game forgets the side characters exist! You have no meaningful interactions with them outside of designated spots in the story that stops the plot progression to the point it feels like you have be removed from it entirely just to talk to the characters. They don't interact with the plot elements in any meaningful way. They don't comment on the events in any meaningful way or share insight. How does the story affect them? No idea! Fox will tell you how they like fungi though! How does this get represented in the story itself? It doesn't! You don't get group interactions. While in the story itself you may get one or two lines of dialogue from the characters per point in they story, they don't make me feel any sort of way about them. They just sort of... happen? Like I thought I was going to get a story about a friend group that is shaped and or affected by the events of the story in some way, but there are no characters arcs for the side characters outs…11 found this helpful
This game is as dull as the original and feels very.. forced for lack of better term. Don’t recommend.9 found this helpful
Although I enjoyed the first game, I didn't liked the story of the second one, after a few hours of playing it, I stopped.6 found this helpful
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