Games like Stronghold 4
If Stronghold 4 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Stronghold: Definitive Edition, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition and Stronghold HD (2012) — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Stronghold 4: Wood needed! Return to the green roots of Stronghold in this narrative prequel to the original 'castle sim'. Immerse yourself in a cinematic campaign, hone your siegecraft with new mechanics in skirmish mode and customise your castles with a wide selection of castle pieces and cosmetics.
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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Top pick for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Stronghold HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
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.
Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Stronghold Legends: Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Catapult werewolves over castle walls, incinerate troops with dragon fire and command the Knights of the Round Table! This remaster of the mythical ‘castle sim’ features Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, new maps, achievements and DLC campaigns.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Stronghold 4 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
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The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Stronghold 4.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Stronghold 4.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
Liquidators
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world where the gods are real. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice you make has a price to pay and consequence to it. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
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.
Stronghold Crusader 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
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.
Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Gird your loins and sharpen your steel! Besiege 20 unique enemy lords and battle friends online, in this expanded remaster of the classic 'castle sim'. Relive history with new units, opponents, visuals, audio, campaigns, skirmish trails, co-op and larger maps.
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Stronghold HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
The original castle sim, Stronghold HD allows you to design, build and destroy historical castles. Engage in medieval warfare against the AI in one of two single player campaigns or online with up to 8 players.
Stronghold 2: Steam Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Tax, torture or treat your peasants! Rehabilitate criminals or sentence them to death? Decide as you enjoy jousting over a lavish banquet, all while under siege from the warmongering Lord Barclay.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Stronghold 3 Gold
WHY THIS
Another title from Firefly Studios, the studio behind Stronghold 4. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Stronghold 4.
Set 10 years after the original, Stronghold 3: Gold follows the vengeful story of The Wolf in the third installment of the award-winning castle building series. The Wolf has cheated death become even more bitter and twisted. Build castles, rally your troops and save medieval England!
Frequently asked about Stronghold 4
- What games are most similar to Stronghold 4?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Stronghold 4 are Stronghold: Definitive Edition, Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition, Stronghold HD (2012).
- Who developed Stronghold 4?
- Stronghold 4 was developed by Firefly Studios.
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