Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars
Skip · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 33.8h
- Value
- $0.15/hr
- Reviews
- 57% positive
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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.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
January 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $1.24. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 79 in the 14 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
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 78) beats it on value, while it beats Blitzkrieg 3 ($9.99, scores 2).
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 73 against 57 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 57 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.
Players
4 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars scores 4/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115200/cossacks-ii-napoleonic-warsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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