Single-player games like Cossacks 3
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Cossacks 3, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Cossacks: Back to War
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Company of Heroes 2
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Experience the ultimate WWII RTS platform with COH2 and its standalone expansions. This package includes the base game, which you can then upgrade by purchasing The Western Front Armies, Ardennes Assault and/or The British Forces. More info in the "About This Game" section below.
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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!
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Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Tempest Rising
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Command distinct factions in a desperate struggle for power and resources in Tempest Rising - a classic RTS set on Earth after a nuclear war.
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Northgard: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars™
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Strategy with Cossacks 3.
The year is 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning of the Third Tiberium War and the long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-Time Strategy franchise of all time
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Vikings Hnefatafl: Kings of the Dark Age
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Supreme Commander
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Total War: WARHAMMER II
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Warlords Battlecry III
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Warlords Battlecry III is the next installment in the award-winning Warlords Battlecry series. Builds upon the famous features of previous Battlecry titles such as the outstanding AI, innovative gameplay and hero system that has made this brand renowned throughout the RTS genre.
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Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
Command armies, manage resources, and build an empire in this real-time strategy wargame from Longbow Games. Will Rome fulfil its destiny to rule the ancient world or will history be rewritten to forge a new Etruscan, Gallic, or Greek hegemony!
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American Conquest
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks 3.
In American Conquest, Players set sail from Europe to discover new world and conquer its innumerable riches.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks 3 — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.