Strong Hold 0.7.0

What's new in 0.7.0

• Sands of Time trails: after each win, the original's timing screen with your mission times, ranks and the trail bar; Stats opens the score table
• Finishing a trail shows its completion screen ("Congratulations!", the desert background or the classic trail's closing lines)
• Campaign missions wait for the advisor video and speech before the mission-over screen, like the original
• Got the game through the app's Steam download? The main menu now tells you when new game files are needed (for example the videos added in 0.6.0) and downloads only those after a Steam sign-in

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Strong Hold into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 9.5 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Coming from "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)"? Same app, new name. Drag the old app to the Bin; your download, settings and saves move over on first open.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 31ca15cb25e71202d1a8871076cdf274d9b81786416262d07d4dbb87db87ab80

Unofficial, free, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios. Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader are trademarks of Firefly Studios.

Strong Hold 0.6.0

What's new in 0.6.0

• Advisor and lord videos over the minimap, as in the original (your sergeant, the lords' taunts, weddings)
• Campaign missions end with the full-screen win or lose video; skirmish score screens sit over it too
• Victory and defeat speech and music
• Building sketches in building panels and the Popularity report
• Tutorial: animated arrows point at the button each step talks about
• Building tooltips: name and cost on hover; with "Show Extended Building Tooltips" also what it does, uses and makes
• On-screen texts as the original: Game Paused, game speed, keep warnings, who owns a building, win/peace timers, starting goods
• Multiplayer chat: send to chosen players, your team or enemies, mute players, and the 20 insults with speech (Mute Insults options work)
• The tutorial and co-op trails use your colour too
• Note: the new videos (about 0.9 GB) are prepared in the background on first start after the update; if you got the game through the app's Steam download, they arrive with your next download

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Strong Hold into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 9.5 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Coming from "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)"? Same app, new name. Drag the old app to the Bin; your download, settings and saves move over on first open.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: f0fdd60f508e34698561b0f75c81ac10e49f2605c90108524c448aa338b49904

Unofficial, free, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios. Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader are trademarks of Firefly Studios.

Strong Hold 0.5.0

What's new in 0.5.0

• Map Editor (first part): pick a size (160 to 800) and game type, then shape the land: raise/lower/smooth, hills and plateaus, every ground type, sea, rivers, marsh, oil, trees, shrubs, rocks and animals. Save your map and load it again; Free Build and Custom Scenario maps you make show up in the Sandbox
• Not yet: placing keeps, buildings and units in the editor (coming next), so editor maps can't be used for Skirmish yet

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Strong Hold into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 8 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Coming from "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)"? Same app, new name. Drag the old app to the Bin; your download, settings and saves move over on first open.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 4316d2d87dd067576e2138c132dc24f184bea259acae5e8da0965b323a38c24b

Unofficial, free, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios. Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader are trademarks of Firefly Studios.

Strong Hold 0.4.0

What's new in 0.4.0

• Your colour everywhere: the colour you pick in Options > Player now shows on your troops, lord, flags, stats graphs, score screen and chat names (saves keep their colours). Classic and custom trails now set player colours too
• Allies panel: give orders to allied lords, send and request goods
• Free Build: the Events menu (plague, fire, bandits, fairs, invasions with presets) and the extreme powers bar
• Control groups panel on the troops tab
• Advanced Skirmish Options (14 rule switches, remembered), Extreme toggles, map list search and sorting
• Trail Customize keeps the mission's start positions, castles and building switches
• The game pauses while the score screen is up
• Fix: projectile maths now matches the original game exactly on every computer (before, about 1 in 20 arrow and rock angles came out slightly different on Macs), so Mac and Linux LAN games stay in sync
• Fixes: building panel closes after Delete, sliders can be dragged, cost lines for Shift/Ctrl recruiting

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Strong Hold into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 8 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Coming from "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)"? Same app, new name. Drag the old app to the Bin; your download, settings and saves move over on first open.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 2c7a9b32615980aca928e4d598971625766a12c070412b4986f77593b68f26a9

Unofficial, free, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios. Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader are trademarks of Firefly Studios.

Strong Hold 0.3.0

What's new in 0.3.0

• In-game Help: the game's help pages for every building and unit, with pictures and links; a "?" button on building panels opens the right page
• Score screen at the end of a game: rankings, crowns, military and economy pages, Play Again, Save Replay, Graphs, and Continue to the next trail mission
• Building panels: gatehouse open/close, drawbridge, fletcher/poleturner/blacksmith output choice, inn, church and wedding, cathedral monks, tunnellers' guild, outpost and siege tent
• Market: price list and auto trading
• Disband now asks first (with "Do not ask again"); the briefing button on the HUD opens the mission briefing mid-game
• Hotkeys from the original: troop stances, control groups (Ctrl+0-9), camera bookmarks, jump to keep/lord/market/barracks, hide HUD, flatten landscape, FPS counter, mute
• Save dialog with your own file names and overwrite check; delete and sort saves in Load Game
• Credits screen, Patch Notes, fullscreen / borderless / windowed with resolution choice, VSync, and options like Lock Cursor, clock, UI sounds and mute in background now work
• Fix: data from "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)" now moves over even if a "Strong Hold" folder already exists

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Strong Hold into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 8 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Coming from "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)"? Same app, new name. Drag the old app to the Bin; your download, settings and saves move over on first open.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 42826e9ff5cc25820976cba5e401b0f50953d62f4812f190c20dd28f889a37bc

Unofficial, free, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios. Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader are trademarks of Firefly Studios.

Strong Hold 0.2.0

What's new in 0.2.0

• New name: Strong Hold (was "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)")
• Crusader Trail: trail briefing, Sands of Time timing, ranks and leaderboard, Customize, Skirmish Masters, custom trails; fixed trail missions where the lord and new buildings didn't appear
• Historical campaign: all missions playable natively, story pages, hints and help
• Market buying and selling and the demolish tool work again
• Scribe's book opens the Reports (popularity breakdown and 9 report pages)
• Troops: full order cursor, target markers, special troop buttons, Shift/Ctrl recruiting
• Camera: original zoom steps, map edges, right-click compass menu (rotate, zoom, flatten, hide HUD), minimap shows the view correctly
• LAN multiplayer: in-game chat, pause, multiplayer saves; co-op Crusader Trail over LAN
• Sounds: menu speech, endgame music, mission sounds, tutorial voice-overs

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Strong Hold into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 8 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Coming from "Stronghold Crusader (Rust)"? Same app, new name. Drag the old app to the Bin; your download, settings and saves move over on first open.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 206afb8cf47e753fddada5d1527546a436cdf72da6bdd8b0d560844f5260d45a

Unofficial, free, non-commercial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios. Stronghold and Stronghold Crusader are trademarks of Firefly Studios.

Stronghold Crusader (Rust) 0.1.1

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Stronghold Crusader (Rust) into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 8 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: a4a8113d920e8b2cb6bd200b98960d84bd01ab67bb639255a715ce25eedc11e6

Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Firefly Studios.

Stronghold Crusader (Rust) 0.1.0

Install

1. Open the DMG and drag Stronghold Crusader (Rust) into Applications.
2. First open: right-click the app > Open. On macOS 15+, open it once, then System Settings > Privacy & Security > Open Anyway (the app isn't notarized yet).
3. The setup window gets your own copy of the game once: from CrossOver/Steam on this Mac, a folder, or a download from Steam with your account (scan a code with the Steam phone app, or user name + password + Steam Guard). About 8 GB of disk and a few minutes.

Needs an Apple Silicon Mac with macOS 12+, and Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition on your Steam account.

Inside the native engine and Valve's DepotDownloader 3.4.0 (GPL-2.0, source: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/tree/DepotDownloader_3.4.0) for the Steam download. No files from the game.

SHA-256 of the DMG: 22efa6481bd943e36b211a99717f2f32336fcbcf36cd6aebc5b57943e3786e4d

Unofficial fan project, not affiliated with Firefly Studios.