Single-player games like Cossacks: Back to War
Below are 22 single-player Steam games similar to Cossacks: Back to War, 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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Cossacks 3
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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!
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Cossacks II: Battle for Europe
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Rise of Nations: Extended Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!
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American Conquest: Fight Back
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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.
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Age of Empires: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Age of Empires, the pivotal real-time strategy game that launched a 20-year legacy returns with modernized gameplay, all-new 4K visuals, 8-person multiplayer battles and a host of other new features. Welcome back to history.
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Company of Heroes 2
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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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Dragon Throne: Battle of Red Cliffs
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
An epic real-time strategy game set in chaotic Ancient China. Control the kingdoms of Liu Bei, Sun Quan, or Cao Cao, warlords who played a pivotal role in Ancient China. Lead your kingdom, innovate tech, forge alliances, build a formidable army to unite the nation.
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Soldiers: Heroes of World War II - Enhanced Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
The first installment in the real-time tactics series that would become known as Men of War, now refreshed and enhanced! Take command of American, British, Soviet, or German forces and fight on the battlefields of World War II in 32 single-player missions or with others in PvP and co-op sessions.
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American Conquest
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
In American Conquest, Players set sail from Europe to discover new world and conquer its innumerable riches.
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Heroes of Annihilated Empires
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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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Stronghold: Definitive Edition
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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.
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Total Annihilation
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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.
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They Are Billions
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
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?
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Total War: WARHAMMER
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. 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.
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Zero-K
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.
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Demise of Nations
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy with Cossacks: Back to War.
Demise of Nations is a 4X turn-based grand strategy wargame covering the rise of Rome till the fall of modern civilization.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Single-player alternative to Cossacks: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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: Back to War — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
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.