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% · 9,58175Metacritic356playing now
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Stronghold Kingdoms price

Stronghold Kingdoms is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

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 4, 2026
Not recommended. Years of play, an exploit active for months, and support that replies with copy and paste. I have been playing Stronghold Kingdoms for years, across several worlds. I am not writing because I lost an attack: I am writing because the game has reached a point where playing fairly no longer makes sense. On Europe 10 something precise and repeatable keeps happening: every time an enemy House coordinates a massive attack on our top players, the players under attack get kicked out of the server with the error "Your session has timed out" and cannot log back in until the attacks have landed. Only them, only at that moment, with their connection working perfectly on everything else. An entire alliance is experiencing this, not a single player. We have done everything that can be done: videos, screenshots with the server time visible, dozens of tickets opened by different players with the same evidence. Firefly's answer was identical for everyone, word for word: a pre-written message that does not address the issue, does not ask for details, does not promise anything. No technician has ever looked at the problem. The exploit is still there. The result is a game where th…
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Not recommended Sep 5, 2026
Dont put money or time into this game.The hackers are rampent,they use bots,they use session time out to kick you out of the game when attacking your village.Support doesnt care and will never acknowledge these issues.If you get your account hacked,there is no help.Servers can crash/glich and any loses u get from this you will never be reimbursed.There is only one house that always wins every map due to them hacking and you will never be able to win againt hackers. -Rampant Cheating -No support
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Not recommended Sep 7, 2026
Played in 2019 on 2nd monitor as an AFK Stronghold theme game. It's not great, its a time gated one like mobile games etc, i just played it because Stronghold, sacrificed some work coffee $$ to pay for small benefits. Never took it serious, it was fun enough. Then the server reset or change IIRC, then i stopped playing. Like all these types of games big p2p alliances and botters rule....as you can see by other comments, theres no point playing in the 2020 bot/hack/ai era. Probably still around as an extra revenue game for FF studios. Let it die :)
Not recommended Aug 29, 2026
It was just showing black screen,idk what went wrong I have done everything correctly
Recommended Aug 29, 2026
good
Not recommended Aug 26, 2026
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