Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars
Skip · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 4, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews▼
- 58% of 660
- Critics
- 73 players 15 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 94% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 33.8h
- To 100%
- 85h 2.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 80 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.24 January 2013
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 9 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 5% of its genre
Price and player charts
Players
- Players online
- 9 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 10:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
The value story
The value story
Across all 80 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is less well reviewed than 95 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cossacks: Back to War ($4.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOMS 8 REMAKE ($59.99, scores 3).
More about Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 73 against 58 percent.
This site sampled 270 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 38 percent of the 204 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
33.8 hours to finish it, 85 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.5 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I DONT UNDETSTAND WHY THEY STILL SELL THIS?. YOU CANNOT PLAY IT ON MODERN SYSTEMS BECAUSE OF CONSTANT CRASHING. I HAVE DONE ABSOLOUTE EVERYTHING I AM ABLE TO DO AND THE GAME STILL DOESENT WORK PROPERLY. Its a shame because its an amazing game and a childhood classic for me, but do not waste your money on this. you`ll just get frustrated with a kind of "panic game reset" for many reasons I will not get into, do your...
1 more review, not recommended
rubbish. payed £4 for absolute rubbish. the npcs get their troops before i can even get a single factory in the only real thing that is ok is the multiplayer
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars sends the player into the heroic XIX century where they assume the role of a commander to take part in the massive historical battles for the supremacy over Europe.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Video Card with 128MB dedicated memory and DirectX 9 Compatible, 1.8 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115200/cossacks-ii-napoleonic-warsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 2, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.