It’s 2001, Shrek just came out and you’re looking forward to Pixar’s Monsters, Inc around the corner. You sit down at your family computer and boot up the game with the knight and castle on the box. It’s time to build a kingdom from scratch and conquer the lands—it might even be your first experience with a real-time strategy game. Well, the years kept coming and they didn’t stop coming. Since 2001, FireFly Studios has released 15 stronghold games including sequels, ports and remasters. So what makes Stronghold: Definitive Edition different than 2012’s Stronghold HD? Well, the definitive edition looks to be more of a remake than a remaster with a new campaign, Steam multiplayer, and visuals that look recreated from the ground up. Players can see every little detail from the blacksmith hammering away to fletchers making arrows. All of this comes together to create a portrait of a massive, interconnected working economy, said Sak Abdi of Firefly Studios. Firefly Studios worked hard to keep the new content loyal to the original game. They tracked down the voice actors from the original and the new campaign was written by the original co-founders. Stronghold, a historic RTS game set in medieval Britain was released in 2001 to positive reviews and sold 1.5 million units according to a press release in 2004. The game was praised for allowing players to conquer the country with their armies or focus on creating massive, well-oiled castles.