Stronghold 4 Looks Ready to Reclaim the Castle
The Stronghold 4 demo from Firefly Studios offers a promising return to castle building, siege defense and medieval resource management, blending familiar series strengths with a much more modern presentation.
Castle Building Stronghold 4 Lays Its Foundation
Exactly 25 years after the inception of the Stronghold ‘castle sim’ series, the long-awaited next mainline entry, Stronghold 4, charges onto Steam Early Access in 2026 with unique castle simulation gameplay and a new prequel story campaign, all vividly rendered in Unreal Engine 5. Set well before the events of the original Stronghold and headlined […]
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition Modernizes Classic Medieval Warfare
When the original Stronghold Crusader was released in 2002, it was a huge leap forward for real-time strategy titles. Now, the definitive edition brings that glory back with new graphics, missions, maps, combat units and a rogues’ gallery of tricky AI opponents.
Firefly Studios Defines Aggressive Post-Launch Content For Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
Firefly Studios is planning an aggressive post-content roadmap for Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition. In addition to the usual fixes, improvements and balancing expected of an expanded RTS remaster like Crusader, Firefly is also planning two major updates coming later this year. Following the positive reception of their two public demos, the first released on January […]
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition Deploys To Steam
The Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition from Firefly Studios has launched on Steam. The Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition excelled during the Steam Next Fest, ranking highly right against the best new game demos of the most jam-packed Next Fest to date. With over 230k wish lists and 195k demo downloads thus far, it was the number […]
Sieging the Day Again With the Stronghold: Definitive Edition
FireFly Studios has completely revamped their classic Stronghold RTS with updated visuals designed by the original artists, plus a whole new main campaign for building up and tearing down magnificent castles. Everything old is new again in the Stronghold: Definitive Edition.
Firefly Adding New Content and Modes to Stronghold: Warlords
Editor’s Note: Check out our full review of Stronghold: Warlords. Firefly Studios has just released their first update for Stronghold: Warlords, adding an extreme difficulty mode, increased troop limits, a new map, AI improvements, balance changes and bug fixes. The castle sim developer also revealed the first part of Warlords’ post-release content roadmap introducing new […]
Asian History Meets Siege Warfare in Stronghold: Warlords
The Stronghold series has always been known as one of the best castle-building and siege warfare games, but it’s always been centered around Celtic strongholds and Medieval castles. Stronghold Warlords takes the action to Asia, and we are very grateful.
Firefly Studios Catapults Stronghold: Warlords onto Steam
Fans of building, besieging and ‘wuselfaktor’ rejoice! Firefly Studios’ latest entry in their legendary ‘castle sim’ series, Stronghold: Warlords is now available on Steam, GOG, Humble and other retailers. Firefly celebrates today’s long awaited release with a final launch trailer for the game featuring fresh gameplay, the full campaign map and a story preview narrated […]
COVID-19 Pushes Stronghold Warlords into Next Year
Firefly Studios has announced the release date for their upcoming RTS ‘castle sim’, Stronghold: Warlords, has been moved from September 29 to January 26, 2021. Citing the impact of COVID-19 on team members, Firefly says this new date will result in the best possible Stronghold experience for fans of the long-running series. “We hadn’t intended […]