Combat submenu: Main Campaign, The Jewel Campaign, Siege, Invasion

About this game

Developer: Firefly Studios · Publisher: Firefly Studios · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Realistic 3D · Screen type: Settings / System

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What to study

One level down from the main menu: Combat opens into four ways to fight, the two campaigns, the Siege mode, and Invasion, each again a shield button. The mode list is the design statement, a castle game that treats defending a siege and surviving an invasion as separate games worth naming. Frame at about 67.1s in the Reveal Trailer (Steam). No trailer burn-in caption on this frame; the NEW CAMPAIGN caption fades in at about 68.4s. Caveat, stated plainly: the menu is shown as a gold-framed picture inside the trailer's room set rather than full-screen, but the menu itself fills the central panel and is fully legible.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

menu-list diegetic-menu photo-frame

Components

Parts on screen.

Menu Illustration

Screen inventory

• four shield-button menu rows reading Main Campaign, The Jewel Campaign, Siege, and Invasion
• the same knight-and-siege key art as the main menu, inside a gold-framed panel
• the panel presented inside the trailer's dark medieval room set, with a wooden floor and barrels at right

Top 3 colors

#060402 22%#2d221b 20%#0d0805 17%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Firefly Studios, Stronghold: Definitive Edition screenshot: Stronghold: Definitive Edition - Launch Trailer and Reveal Trailer (Steam) — Firefly Studios, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Firefly Studios.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-11-06. verified 2026-11-06: full-res 1920x1080 review; all four submenu rows and the logo legible; 5 fps strip 66.0-69.0s: cut into the submenu at about 67.0s (dist 287), then dists 1-13, a settled hold to about 68.3s, and the NEW CAMPAIGN caption fading in at about 68.4s (dist 91), so the 67.1s frame is caption-free; the room-set framing is the trailer's presentation, the menu panel itself is clean; aHash+dHash 116 vs nearest manifest item (townscaper-0), visually checked: a plain teal sea with one island, not a near-duplicate, the distance coming from both frames' large flat dark regions; no Stronghold: Definitive Edition entry in manifest (1321 items).

WhoLetsPlay lists Firefly Studios (Library: Stronghold Series, Stronghold Kingdoms) as YES with no conditions, citing Firefly's Terms (wholetsplay.com, checked 2026-11-06); the linked Firefly terms page no longer serves the policy text, so the primary source could not be re-verified this run. Fair-use fallback for Phase-2: frames are stills from the official Steam trailers, unofficial, not endorsed, takedown honoured within 48h.

Rights holders: see Copyright & takedown.