Stronghold Kingdoms
Firefly Studios · 2012 · Strategy, Free to Play, Medieval, Massively Multiplayer, City Builder
PC
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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!
DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Was fun until my parish steward who's 10 times my size wiped me off the map for asking him a simple question of can he help cure some disease in the parish. Perfect simulation of medieval England I'd say.15 found this helpful
fun
Kind of pay to play. You need premium in order to do anything substantial, and even then it's time gated. The biggest turn off for me, was when using your cards, if you're not slow enough you will lose your card and it will not activate. Cards are purchased with money, and you lose the cards completely. They don't come back, and you don't get the resources from them once played if you played two consecutively.
nice
Developed and published by Firefly Studios, Stronghold Kingdoms reimagines the traditional Stronghold formula by combining castle management, medieval warfare, and persistent online multiplayer into a single long-term strategy experience. Rather than progressing through a conventional campaign, players begin as a minor lord overseeing a humble settlement within a massive online world shared by thousands of others. From those modest beginnings, the objective is to expand territory, strengthen the economy, establish alliances, and gradually earn political influence across an ever-changing medieval landscape. The game's persistent nature creates a sense that every decision matters, as kingdoms continue to evolve even when individual players are offline. Building and maintaining a thriving settlement forms the foundation of the experience. Players must carefully balance food production, resource gathering, industry, taxation, and population growth while simultaneously constructing imposing castles capable of surviving enemy assaults. Designing defensive layouts is more than an aesthetic exercise, as the placement of walls, towers, gates, and siege defenses directly affects how well a …
cool game
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