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Stronghold HD
81 Score
Strategy

Stronghold HD

FireFly Studios  /  September 18, 2012  /  Rated Teen

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Released

2012

Publisher

FireFly Studios

Time to beat

~3 hrs

Community

2,341

Stronghold is a real-time strategy game, the first installment in Firefly Studio’s Stronghold series.

Gameplay###
The game takes place in Medieval Brittan of XI century. In most game modes, you take лrole of a Lord and have to develop your castle increasing its population, creating a stable economy and strong military while maintaining your popularity among the people. The game attends both the war and economics aspect. There are many types of resources in the game that can be divided into two groups: food and materials. The townspeople constantly consume food, so the player has to develop a stable production of meat, bread, apples, and cheese. Each of these types of food requires different structures and has different stages of production.
Unlike most other RTS, each military unit requires a different set of recourse to be created. E.g., crossbowman needs a crossbow and leather armor; swordsman needs a sword and metal armor.
The game has two campaigns: military and economic. In the latter, you don’t have to with other Lords, but only wild animals. Besides that, there is a free mode where you can develop your castle without any objectives or time restrictions and siege mode, separate scenarios that do not involve castle building but instead lets player attack or defend several historical castles.

Stronghold is a 2001 real-time strategy video game developed by Firefly Studios and originally published by Gathering of Developers for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It is the first instalment of the Stronghold series. The game focuses primarily on conquest and expansion through military pursuits but also has prominent economic and infrastructure development elements. There is both an economic and a military campaign to be played and both are discussed in the game manual. The country depicted in the game is never mentioned, but the geography and nobility of the game strongly resembles Medieval England.

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recommended
50.16%
exceptional
31.95%
meh
9.58%
skip
8.31%

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