Stronghold Kingdoms

Stronghold Kingdoms

Firefly Studios · February 28, 2012 · Strategy, Free to Play, Medieval, Massively Multiplayer, City Builder

Stronghold Kingdoms is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mixed64% · 9,590 📉 Recent reviews down 56%75Metacritic390playing now
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Stronghold Kingdoms price

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About Stronghold Kingdoms

✦ AI summary

Build and fortify your castle while climbing a feudal hierarchy alongside thousands of real players, choosing your path as a farmer, trader, diplomat, or warlord. Unite with player-led Houses and factions to wage large-scale strategy warfare across a shared world where politics, economics, and military might all determine who rules.


Cast as a feudal lord or lady, players begin with a single village and keep. They must design and defend their castle before turning their eye to the rest of the country, Europe and the world! Whatever path they choose players will find strength in numbers as they band together, uniting with local Factions and player-led Houses.

Key Features

  • 🏰BUILD Your Stronghold - Crush the invading hordes with impenetrable castle defenses. Then launch a counterattack!
  • ⚔️BESIEGE Rival Lords - Attack sworn enemies without warning, cripple their economy or engage in political mind games.
  • 🏹RESEARCH New Technology - Are you a farmer, trader, diplomat or warlord? Explore a vast tech tree to specialize and expand.
  • ⚜️LEAD Your House - Join a faction, attack its enemies, return triumphant and rule over entire countries with your bannermen!
  • 🌍PLAY Anywhere - Wage war with thousands of other Lords playing the full game together on PC and mobile.

Besiege the castle that’s never been taken, overthrow ruthless tyrants, bankroll your faction’s war efforts, pillage your neighbor’s resources, peacefully raise cattle or do it all! Factions, elections, liege lords and their vassals come together to form a feudal community of real players with whom to discuss strategies and build allegiances.

While an impregnable castle should be at the heart of any kingdom, you can also specialize with a vast research tree. Starting as a humble peasant each promotion provides valuable research points to spend on trading, diplomacy, warfare, farming or religion. Beware as your power grows so does your responsibility. Your vassals will look to you for leadership and you may find yourself fighting for the crown itself!

Stronghold Kingdoms — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Online PvP, Online co-op, Cross-platform multiplayer
PC Game Pass
Not included
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DLC & expansions

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Stronghold Kingdoms suffers from widespread reports of rampant cheating, including session timeout exploits used to disconnect players during attacks, alongside largely unresponsive support that fails to address these issues. Players consistently warn against investing time or money, citing hacker dominance, server problems without compensation, and account security concerns that make fair play impossible. The general consensus is to avoid the game entirely, with only occasional positive notes from players who treated it casually years ago.

Not recommended Sep 12, 2026
Ridiculous A simple interface game and they can't make a working linux version? Got damn man, put a browser version up. Can't support a game that can't spend a little bit of time to make a linux version. Had to run it through Lutris with a ton of custom options, but finally got it working, what a nightmare!
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Not recommended Sep 14, 2026
🇷🇺 !!Оказывается, самое сложное в этой игре — это начать!! Всё началось со скачивания Framework 3.5. Продолжилось регистрацией аккаунта в игре с использованием почты. И закончилось ошибкой загрузки текстур прямо с самого старта. Ставлю «Компоненты Windows» — 3/10. 🇬🇧 !!Turns out, the hardest part of this game is actually getting started!! It all began with downloading Framework 3.5. Then came creating an account using an email address. And it ended with a texture loading error right from the start. I give the «Windows Components» a 3/10.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 12, 2026
I do not recommend playing this game. It used to be an amazing and fun MMO castle builder, but with time, the game has become unplayable and not fun due to ABSOLUTE excessive amount of players using BOTS and some others that hack the game are able to cause players these hacker attack to lose their sessions and not log into the game during attacks. Europe 10 (and I’m sure the other worlds) is rampant with botters and house 10 players have many that hack the game and cause issues. I have sent multiple reports (with many other players) to Firefly studios, but very little seems to be done as the hackers/botters also pay to play and seems like that is all Firefly cares about. Don’t waste your time with it. Disgusting that this is allowed in a game that is pretty much pay to play.
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Not recommended Sep 26, 2026
Building castles, forging alliances, and besieging your neighbors sounds like classic Stronghold fun. Unfortunately, the slow MMO grind drags the experience down. Turns out becoming a medieval lord involves a lot more waiting than the history books mentioned.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 1, 2026
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Recommended Sep 13, 2026
need more games like this

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