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Shares resource management with Cossacks: European Wars.
- $4.99 (Price checked Oct 31)
- 2011
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Shares siege warfare and naval combat with Cossacks: European Wars.
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- Released: 2011
- Developer: GSC Game World
- Price: $4.99checked Oct 31
- 76% of 191 reviews
- Genres: Strategy
- Metacritic 74
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Detailed historical unit authenticity
- Each civilization has unique buildings
- Late 17th century warfare rarely seen in rts games
- Challenging
- Epic
- Grand
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About Cossacks: European Wars
The closest matches to Cossacks: European Wars: Cossacks: Art of War, Cossacks: Back to War, Cossacks II: Battle for Europe, Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars, and Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Cossacks: European Wars is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cossacks: Art of War, Cossacks: Back to War and Cossacks II: Battle for Europe — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as challenging, epic and grand, and single out its aerostat exploration and civilization specific buildings. 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.
About Cossacks: European Wars: This game is devoted to the key events of the XVII–XVIII centuries.
Is Cossacks: European Wars worth buying?
Mostly recommended
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 76% of 191 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Price: $4.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 12 h when they wrote their review.
- Critics had played a median of 11 h before their negative review.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Detailed historical unit authenticity
- Each civilization has unique buildings
- Late 17th century warfare rarely seen in rts games
- Massive combined arms battles
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“steam recording me as playing and the reality is the game stop starts non stop, tried everything and gave up, and the worse part Steam is refusing to refund because i spent hours trying to make it work!!!!! The best thing to do is try just…”
“Playing Cossacks Art of War and European War every couple of hours they crash and I have to start again. Should be fit for purpose and not rely on web searches for fixes.”
People who play it also play: Cossacks: Art of War, Cossacks: Back to War, Cossacks II: Battle for Europe
Frequently asked about Cossacks: European Wars
Can I run it?
How much does Cossacks: European Wars cost?
Cossacks: European Wars is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Cossacks: European Wars?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cossacks: European Wars are Cossacks: Art of War, Cossacks: Back to War, Cossacks II: Battle for Europe.
Who developed Cossacks: European Wars?
Cossacks: European Wars was developed by GSC Game World and published by GSC World Publishing.