Stronghold HD (2012) (2013)

Wow, another love-to-hate-to-love game. The game is good, definitely outstanding in the time, and his competitors from that era. Preatty decent campaign story; it will keep you engaged till the end, as it will slowly progress you till the last latest mission. This edition has an economic campaign (5 missions; they do not relate to each other but they are engaging). Looks decent (not quite a good thing, as this was an improved version of the original; I think they only added extra missions and higher resolution, other than that not seeing much difference, and there was a lot to improve). Really impressed by the amount of detail it have and different mechanics (fire pit, oil fire creating dithes, traps, dead cows as ammunition, fine detail destruction, timeSpeed, etc), but not all well implemented. It has plenty of ways to play: campaign missions, siege (you invade a castle), invasion (defending), skirmish, random scenarios, and maps. -Not bad but the enemy AI sometimes can be random, which is ok but still make me almost rage, in some occasions. example- In one mission the enemy will do the same pathing for 3 attacks in a row soo, you dont have much time to defend everything soo …

My childhood memories came alive and I enjoyed it.

10/10 classic

Still by far the best stronghold game they ever made

Seems like a good game, but I couldn't get warm with it. The controls are not very good, the graphics are worse and the gameplay is often waiting around for long stretches of time. The building part of the game isn't logical either (you can't build certain buildings on their own, you have to build them adjacent to others of its kind). Actually the building part of this game annoyed me the most and normaly I love builder games.

Child hood memories, brilliant game.