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Stronghold Kingdoms

Firefly Studios · 2012-02-27

Steam

Massively MultiplayerStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: Jan 01, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A massively multiplayer grand strategy game, Stronghold Kingdoms is about forging alliances, political mind games, city-building and castle sieges with thousands of other players!

278
playing now
64%
positive of 9.6k reviews
Mixed
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
53/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
borked
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

278 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 02:00 UTC (census sample)

Stronghold Kingdoms is a 2012 massively multiplayer online real-time strategy game video game with a Medieval castle building theme. It was an installment in the Stronghold series of games. It is the first game in the MMO genre to be developed by Firefly Studios.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 278 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 182 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~23/week).
  • · Review velocity down 9% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 870 Massively Multiplayer games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 26 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4672322026-08-06 22:00 — 351 players2026-08-07 06:00 — 304 players2026-08-07 14:00 — 407 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 319 players2026-08-08 06:00 — 311 players2026-08-08 15:00 — 428 players2026-08-08 23:00 — 333 players2026-08-09 07:00 — 302 players2026-08-09 15:00 — 449 players2026-08-09 23:00 — 319 players2026-08-10 07:00 — 286 players2026-08-10 15:00 — 402 players2026-08-10 23:00 — 307 players2026-08-11 07:00 — 287 players2026-08-11 15:00 — 412 players2026-08-12 23:00 — 293 players2026-08-14 06:00 — 262 players2026-08-15 14:00 — 407 players2026-08-16 22:00 — 331 players2026-08-18 05:00 — 244 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 337 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 363 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 248 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 387 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 433 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 279 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 383 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 434 players2026-08-30 02:00 — 278 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

002026-08-27 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 09:33 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 16:35 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Trading Cards1 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese

Player tags

PvPRTSWarSandboxBuildingMedievalStrategyReal-TimeColony SimSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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