Stronghold: Warlords Special Edition
Stronghold: Warlords trades the series' focused castle-building for a bloated RTS that struggles to justify its own scope.
GamerScout Verdict
Only for hardcore Stronghold fans willing to tolerate unfinished design and tedious campaign pacing.
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About Stronghold: Warlords Special Edition
I've spent enough time with Stronghold's legacy to know what works: tight economies, clear siege mechanics, readable UI. Warlords ditches that formula for an overambitious campaign where you command AI warlords across maps that feel twice as large as they need to be. The core loop is there, gather resources, build defenses, manage peasants, but it's buried under menu navigation and a camera that fights you more than enemy siege engines do. The Metacritic 65 isn't a surprise; the game launched unfinished and patches have only papered over structural problems, not solved them. If you're here for traditional Stronghold gameplay, look elsewhere. The multiplayer skirmish mode is functional and the Steam Workshop support means modders might salvage something from this. But vanilla Warlords is a cautionary tale about expanding a series without understanding why the original formula resonated. Solo campaign is a slog, AI warlords are unreliable allies, and the whole thing feels like it needed another year of focused development before release.
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System Requirements
Minimum
- Processor
- Intel i5-3330 3.0Ghz or AMD equivalent
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Graphics
- nVidia GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon HD7970 (2 GB VRAM)
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Network
- Broadband Interne…
Recommended
- Processor
- Intel Core i7-3770 3.4GHz or AMD equivalent
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Graphics
- nVidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290
- DirectX
- Version 9.0c
- Network
- Broadband In…
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- Developer
- Firefly Studios
- Publisher
- Firefly Studios
- Release Date
- Mar 9, 2021
