Release Date: July 15, 2025
A thoroughly refreshed version of the cult RTS from 2002, expanded with new content. Stronghold: Crusader - Definitive Edition offers greatly improved visuals, sounds and music. We can also play new campaigns and new skirmishes, as well as control new units and historical characters.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition is a refreshed (not only graphically) and enriched with new content version of the cult RTS from 2002, titled Stronghold: Crusader. The new version was developed by the FireFly Studios team, which has been overseeing the development of the series from the beginning.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition offers story campaigns set during the times of the first, second, and third crusades, as well as allowing us to participate in conflicts of states established by the crusaders. We can lead to victory knights of Richard the Lionheart or the armies of Saladin, or participate in the sieges of Nicaea, Jerusalem and Antioch, as well as the battle of Heraclea.
Similar to all other games under this banner, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition is a strategy game that combines elements of a city builder with the possibility of fighting medieval battles. We not only build the titular fortresses, whose walls can withstand any attack, but also recruit an army. The military serves us both for defense and offensive actions, and during battles we must demonstrate tactical sense, skillfully using the capabilities of individual units (from infantry, through cavalry, to siege machines).
This is not the end, because during the game you also need to take care of the economy. On our shoulders rests both the necessity of fulfilling the whims of citizens, and keeping an eye on taxes.
In addition to the campaigns known from the original, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition includes additional historical campaigns. In addition, previously inaccessible "Sands of Time" battle trails are waiting to be checked out here. The authors also modified the size of the maps (which have become larger) and the number of options available in skirmish mode.
In addition, previously unavailable soldiers were prepared (Bedouin warriors equipped with unique attributes and abilities), as well as additional rulers with whom we can compete (each of them has their own castle and tactics).
We can play Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition alone or in multiplayer mode over the Internet (for up to 8 people). We can compete or cooperate with other players, and a new skirmishes were prepared with cooperation in mind. Thanks to the support of Steam Workshop, players can independently create custom scenarios.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition stands out from the original due to its significantly improved graphics, which were created from scratch, based on the original illustrations. Additionally, for the game's needs, dialogue lines were re-recorded (with the participation of actors known from the original). The game is played to the accompaniment of music composed by Robert L. Euvino.
Platforms:
PC Windows
Developer: Firefly Studios
Publisher: Firefly Studios
Age restrictions: 12+
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System Requirements for Stronghold: Crusader - Definitive Edition Video Game:
PC / Windows
Minimum System Requirements:
(1080p) Intel Core i3-6100, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB, 7 GB HDD, Windows 10/11 64-bit.
Recommended System Requirements:
(1440p) Intel Core i3-6100, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 3 GB, 7 GB HDD, Windows 10/11 64-bit.
Ultra System Requirements:
(4K) Intel Core i3-6100, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB, 7 GB HDD, Windows 10/11 64-bit.
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October 14, 2025
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The first big expansion for the remastered cult RTS from FireFly Studios. Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition - The Canary & The Trader allows us to face two titular rules. Each of them uses different tactics and strategies, and there are nine new missions in the DLC campaign.
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Game Ratings for Stronghold: Crusader - Definitive Edition Video Game.
Entertainium: 3 / 5 by Andy Johnson
With this remaster, Firefly Studios have added a competent new sheen to their most popular game, Stronghold: Crusader. This is likely to be enough for those nostalgic for the 2002 original, but the game’s aged, frustrating mechanics may be uninviting for newcomers.
NoobFeed: 60 / 100 by Sarwar Ron
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition is at its best when it reminds you why this series has lasted so long. Not many real-time strategy games let you build a fortress stone by stone, watch peasants run through its walls, and then shoot arrows from its towers at an army that is charging. Its strategy boiled down to something both brutal and beautiful, and now it shines again in the desert sun.
Checkpoint Gaming: 7 / 10 by Jam Walker
As an overall package, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition just doesn't tickle me like the first game does. A less captivating band of characters and an unwillingness to lean as firmly into history as its rivals did both back in the day and at present just make for a tonally too strange entity for me to have truly vibed with. It's a very fine game, but one that disappointed me. Maybe 20 years of anticipation was just bound to do that.
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