Games like Cossacks: Back to War
If Cossacks: Back to War is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rise of Nations: Extended Edition, Cossacks 3 and Cossacks II: Battle for Europe — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its deep strategic depth, massive scale battles and nostalgia factor. 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 →About Cossacks: Back to War: 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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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Top pick for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!
Cossacks 3
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Second-strongest match for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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!
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Third-strongest match for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Cossacks II: Battle for Europe is a standalone add-on for "Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars" presenting new nations with the possibility to wage multiplayer battles.
A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI
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Ranked #4 for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Experience the dramatic conflict of samurai culture and modern weaponry between the Imperial throne and the last Shogunate in 19th century Japan.
Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Ranked #5 for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Medieval II: Total War Kingdoms is the official expansion to last year's award-winning Medieval II: Total War, presenting players with all-new territories to explore, troops to command, and enemies to conquer.
Company of Heroes 2 - Ardennes Assault
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Ranked #6 for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Ardennes Assault offers a compelling standalone single-player campaign starring the American Armed Forces. Engage in a dynamic non-linear campaign and bear the consequences of your actions as overall company health persists between missions. USF multiplayer army not included.
Company of Heroes 2 - The British Forces
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Ranked #7 for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
This latest multiplayer standalone entry in the COH2 series features this iconic Allied army. Experience a unique tech-tree that challenges the player to balance the constant trade-off between mobility and defense. Surprise opponents with your development choices and an open end game configuration.
Age of Mythology: Extended Edition
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Ranked #8 for Cossacks: Back to War fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Age of Mythology is back! Choose your god and take to the battlefield in this classic, upgraded with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features.
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American Conquest
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
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In American Conquest, Players set sail from Europe to discover new world and conquer its innumerable riches.
American Conquest: Fight Back
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
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American Conquest: Fight Back is the sequel to American Conquest. The most significant events of that glorious time have found their way into this title.
Heroes of Annihilated Empires
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
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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!
Stronghold: Definitive Edition
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
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Greetings sire! Your stronghold awaits you. Build a castle economy, besiege unforgettable villains and return to the 'castle sim' that started it all. Experience this classic RTS with upgraded visuals, modernised gameplay, Steam multiplayer and a new campaign.
Total Annihilation
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
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What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machines escalated into a war which has decimated a million worlds. The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination.
They Are Billions
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Shares real time strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?
Total War: WARHAMMER
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Reviewers of Cossacks: Back to War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Addictive turn-based empire-building with colossal, real-time battles, all set in a world of legendary heroes, giant monsters, flying creatures and storms of magical power.
Cossacks 3
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Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Reviewers of Cossacks: Back to War cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cossacks: Back to War at current Steam store prices.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~80% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~80% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Majesty Gold HD
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Priced ~50% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
The High Definition edition of Majesty Gold contains main game, the Northern Expansion Pack as well as 2 new quests and several other graphics and gameplay updates.Majesty is a Real-time strategy game with indirect control – your heroes have a will of their own!
Bomber Crew
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Priced ~52% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!
Turmoil
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Priced ~48% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
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Priced ~80% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete, the latest offering in the Sid Meier's Civilization III franchise, provides gaming fans with Sid Meier's Civilization III, the highly-addictive journey of discovery.
Party Hard
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Priced ~60% under Cossacks: Back to War on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.
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The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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!
Dota 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Every day, millions of players worldwide enter battle as one of over a hundred Dota heroes. And no matter if it's their 10th hour of play or 1,000th, there's always something new to discover. With regular updates that ensure a constant evolution of gameplay, features, and heroes, Dota 2 has taken on a life of its own.
World of Warships
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Immerse yourself in thrilling naval battles and assemble an armada of over 800 ships from the first half of the 20th century — from stealthy destroyers to gigantic battleships. Change the look of your ship, choose upgrades to suit your play style, and go into battle with other players!
Crusader Kings II
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Explore one of the defining periods in world history in an experience crafted by the masters of Grand Strategy.
PlanetSide 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.
Dota Underlords
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Hire a crew and destroy your rivals in this new strategy battler set in the world of Dota. Introducing Season One: Explore White Spire and earn rewards on the Battle Pass. Pick from several different game modes, play on your own or with friends, and take advantage of crossplay on PC and mobile.
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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
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Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks: Back to War.
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
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Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks: Back to War.
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: Back to War.
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: Back to War.
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.
Cossacks 3
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks: Back to War. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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!
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cossacks: Back to War.
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks: Back to War.
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: Back to War.
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.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from GSC Game World, the studio behind Cossacks: Back to War.
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: Back to War
- Does Cossacks: Back to War work on Steam Deck?
- Cossacks: Back to War is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Cossacks: Back to War cost?
- Cossacks: Back to War is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cossacks: Back to War have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cossacks: Back to War supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Cossacks: Back to War?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cossacks: Back to War are Rise of Nations: Extended Edition, Cossacks 3, Cossacks II: Battle for Europe.
- Who developed Cossacks: Back to War?
- Cossacks: Back to War was developed by GSC Game World and published by GSC World Publishing.
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