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Every Stronghold Crusader game, ranked

All 2 Stronghold Crusader games we hold, spanning 2013 to 2014: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 39,139 Steam reviews.

Where to start

  • For the best-reviewed: Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) (GamingPickz Score 8.1), the highest-rated entry we can score.

The Stronghold Crusader games on the grid

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The same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.

2 games have both

691005964Players →Popularity →Stronghold Crusader HD (…Stronghold Crusader 2

Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.

Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.

Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.

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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.

How positions are decided

No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
  • Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
  • Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
  • No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
  • A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
  • Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.

2 best Stronghold Crusader games, ranked

Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.

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  1. 1Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) logo

    Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

    Best for: Players who trust other players over critics

    8.1GamingPickz Scorehigh confidence
    Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) at a glance
    Released2013StudioFirefly Studios
    Player sentiment97% positive of 21,059Critics78/100
    Price$1.99Steam Deckplayable
    Install size0.83 GBAccessibility0 declared features

    Raw 97% shrinks to 96.8 on 21,059 reviews, then blends with the 78 critic aggregate, giving 8.1.

    What the data supports
    • Small install at 0.83 GB.
    Worth checking first
    • Players rate it well above critics, 97 against 78. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.

    PC

    Full entryGames like thisStore page

  2. 2Stronghold Crusader 2 logo

    Stronghold Crusader 2

    Best for: Playing through with a friend online

    6.5GamingPickz Scoremedium confidence
    Stronghold Crusader 2 at a glance
    Released2014StudioFirefly Studios
    Player sentiment72% positive of 18,080CriticsNo aggregate
    Price$3.99Steam Deckplayable
    Install size4 GBAccessibility0 declared features

    Raw 72% shrinks to 72.3 on 18,080 reviews, giving 6.5. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.

    What the data supports
    • Small install at 4 GB.

    PC

    Full entryGames like thisModsStore page

Best and worst entry

The best-received Stronghold Crusader game we can score is Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) at 8.1. The lowest is Stronghold Crusader 2 at 6.5, a 1.6-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.

Cheapest way in, and best value

  • Cheapest right now: Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) at $1.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
  • Best value: Stronghold Crusader HD (2012), the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.

On a Steam Deck

Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Stronghold Crusader entries on Steam:

  • Playable: Stronghold Crusader HD (2012), Stronghold Crusader 2

Platforms across the series

Where the 2 Stronghold Crusader games have landed, counting every entry we hold:

Platform familyEntries
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The Stronghold Crusader series, game by game

Every Stronghold Crusader game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.

  1. 2013

    Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)

    8.1

    Firefly Studios · pc

    The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions. (Steam)

    MilitaryCity BuilderReal Time TacticsMedieval

  2. 2014

    Stronghold Crusader 2

    6.5

    Firefly Studios · pc

    Stronghold Crusader 2 is the long awaited sequel to the original castle sim. After 12 years Stronghold returns to the desert with a new 3D engine and powerful Havok Physics. Crusader 2 recaptures the original game’s addictive, fast-paced gameplay and authentic castle simulation. (Steam)

    StrategyMedievalCity BuilderRTS

    Reception

    Reception The game received mixed to positive reviews on release, as of 29 November 2014 garnering an aggregated score of 66% on Metacritic , based on 28 critics' reviews. It has been praised for striking a good balance between the economic and military aspects of the game and staying true to the series and its strategy roots. Conversely, some critics labelled the latter as "nostalgia" and felt it lacking in some areas, in comparison to contemporary… (Wikipedia)

Stronghold Crusader, head to head

Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:

Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) vs Stronghold Crusader 2Scores, price and specs side by side

Stronghold Crusader vs other series

How Stronghold Crusader stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:

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Common questions

How many Stronghold Crusader games are there?

We hold 2 Stronghold Crusader games in the catalogue, released between 2013 and 2014. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.

Which Stronghold Crusader game is best?

By the GamingPickz Score, Stronghold Crusader HD (2012) rates highest at 8.1. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.

What order should I play the Stronghold Crusader games in?

Release order is listed below, from 2013 to 2014. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.

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