Games like Cossacks 3
If Cossacks 3 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, Crossfire: Legion and Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its authentic historical setting, massive unit counts and epic. 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 →Cossacks 3 is a historical real-time strategy game developed and published by GSC Game World, released in 2016 at $19.99. Players manage resources, construct bases, research technologies, and command large armies across land and sea in historically-themed warfare. The game emphasizes tactical positioning and detailed unit micromanagement within a challenging, lengthy campaign structure designed for solo play. Reviewers highlight its authentic historical setting and faithfulness to the original Cossacks series, while players describe the experience as epic and nostalgic, praising the massive unit counts possible in battle. The game holds a 78% positive rating from over 3,200 Steam reviews and is not currently supported on Steam Deck.
About Cossacks 3: Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!
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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Cossacks 3.
Top pick for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Celebrating its first year of delighting millions of global players, the award-winning and best-selling strategy franchise continues with Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, putting you at the center of even more epic historical battles that shaped the world.
Crossfire: Legion
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Crossfire: Legion is a real time strategy game featuring tactical action in furious battles across a shattered version of the near future. Raise and customize your army to engage in intense online combat and carve your own path as you rise through the ranks. It’s a new generation of warfare.
Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares tactical positioning matters and a nostalgic mood with Cossacks 3.
Third-strongest match for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
42 Civilizations, 229 Campaign Missions, Singleplayer, Co-Op, Multiplayer, In-Game Editor, Mods, Cross-play...It is good to be the king.
The Rebellion
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
The Rebellion is a brand new take on real-time strategy enabling you to seamlessly transition into 3rd person to join your warriors in battle. Build your village, equip each unit with powerful weapons and armor, and secure absolute victory for your faction!
TFC: The Fertile Crescent
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cossacks 3.
Ranked #5 for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
Northgard: Definitive Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Cossacks 3.
Ranked #6 for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Diplomacy is Not an Option
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Cossacks 3.
Ranked #7 for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Diplomacy is Not an Option is a strategy game set in a medieval fantasy world. Build your town and defenses, raise huge armies and fight against massive hordes of enemies. How long can you survive?
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares base building with Cossacks 3.
Ranked #8 for Cossacks 3 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
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!
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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Cossacks 3.
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!
Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
In the late 8th century, Anglo-Saxon Britain faces a threat like none before: northmen from across the seas, also called Vikings. In Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age, you will be leading either the Vikings or the Saxons into battle by means of turn-based strategy.
Supreme Commander
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks 3.
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
For a thousand years, three opposing forces have waged war for what they believe is true. There can be no room for compromise: their way is the only way. Dubbed The Infinite War, this devastating conflict has taken its toll on a once-peaceful galaxy and has only served to deepen the hatred between the factions.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Cossacks 3.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.
Total War: WARHAMMER II
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Cossacks 3.
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Strategy gaming perfected. A breath-taking campaign of exploration, expansion and conquest across a fantasy world. Turn-based civilisation management and real-time epic strategy battles with thousands of troops and monsters at your command.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an epic mood with Cossacks 3.
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
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.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks 3.
Reviewers of Cossacks 3 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires - is a fantasy-based game from GSC Game World in the genre of RTS vs RPG for PC. 4 unique races awaits for the heroes, who want to fight in an Epic scale battles!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cossacks 3 at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Cossacks 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cossacks 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Cossacks 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Cossacks 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Cossacks 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Cossacks 3 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
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!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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More from GSC Game World
Other recommendable Steam games by GSC Game World, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
WHY THIS
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
WHY THIS
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl tells a story about survival in the Zone – a very dangerous place, where you fear not only the radiation, anomalies and deadly creatures, but other S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who have their own goals and wishes.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
WHY THIS
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat is the direct sequel of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. As a Major Alexander Degtyarev you should investigate the crash of the governmental helicopters around the Zone and find out, what happened there.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
WHY THIS
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Action with Cossacks 3.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – standalone prequel for the acclaimed S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which tells you story about the Clear Sky group, that want to research the Zone and understand it better.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a nostalgic mood with Cossacks 3.
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl, the first chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy, which started it all.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat follows the story of special service agent Major Degtyarev as he investigates the fate of a lost expedition.
Cossacks: Back to War
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Cossacks 3.
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Cossacks: Back to War contains all of the gameplay features of Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: The Art of War, this is a complete care package for all current and future Cossacks fans. This add-on contains two new nations: Switzerland and Hungary.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares resource management with Cossacks 3.
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks 3. Shares Action and Adventure with Cossacks 3.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky is the prequel chapter of the Legends of the Zone Trilogy. With the ability to directly influence the balance of power through Faction Wars, step into the boots of Scar — a seasoned mercenary, able to somehow survive deadly Emissions.
Frequently asked about Cossacks 3
- Does Cossacks 3 work on Steam Deck?
- Cossacks 3 is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Cossacks 3 cost?
- Cossacks 3 is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cossacks 3 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cossacks 3 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Cossacks 3?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cossacks 3 are Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition, Crossfire: Legion, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.
- Who developed Cossacks 3?
- Cossacks 3 was developed by GSC Game World.
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