Different people value different aspects more.Ī competitive person is more likely to accept worse graphics because they get their enjoyment from the competition with other players but someone who wants to immerse likes good graphics. If the gameplay and the performance is good but it looks bad people won’t play it. What went wrong? Why weren’t the experienced people behind Stronghold: Warlords able to please the modern day market? And are we going probably to see the same situation by Age of Empires 4 as well? Stronghold: Warlords for PC Reviews - Metacritic

Save 10% on Stronghold: Warlords on Steam So its clear at this point the game did fail. Despite Steam having now more users than ever and it has been a while since a new AAA RTS, this game has 2000 people less at launch than its predecessor from 2014. And games online population is probably going to die fast as well. Mixed steam ratings, 40% of people did give bad review. And most ratings are by around 70.Īnd we see by this newest 2021 AAA RTS, as usual that the real reception isn’t quite positive,

Paid critics did give it very high rating like 80 by GameWatcher, TheGamer, and Eurogamer. Stronghold: Warlords is like AoE4 an RTS set in Middle Ages with base build. Stronghold Franchise has been for years a rival RTS installment to AoE Series. Let’s take a look at the situation by Stronghold: Warlords, is AoE4 going to have same fate?