Cossacks 3
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 34.5h
- Value
- $0.58/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 9600 GT / Radeon HD 4830 / Intel HD5000, 6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
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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The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in December 2022. 69 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 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.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition ($39.99, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Company of Heroes 3 ($23.99, scores 3).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 982 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 34.5 hours. Doing everything runs 105, 3.0 times as long.
The drop-off
71% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
446 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Definitely not for the full price, but with good discount it can net you a bunch of fun. This game has only advanced in graphics compared to its predecessors but otherwise there is nothing in it worth calling "the third". It is riddled with bugs, the UI is horrible, braindead pathfinding, and overall any QoL is absent. There is only a few missions in campaigns and scenarios where the AI really plays against you, but...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Cossacks 3 scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/333420/cossacks-3The 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 Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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