Cossacks: Back to War
Worth it · Strategy · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99. Typically $1.24 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.21/hr
- Reviews▼
- 89% of 3,002
- Critics
- 60 players 29 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 24.2h
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
- 111 now
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 93% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 80 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 93 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Blitzkrieg Anthology ($4.99, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology ($4.99, scores 69).
More about Cossacks: Back to War
Critics scored it 60. Players sit 29 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
4 of the 473 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 430 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
To play the game on modern PCs, you need to copy a file to the game directory. You can find that file in the community tab. I played this game when I was a kid and at that time, the campaign seemed impossible to play. Not being able to understand English, I assumed it was my issue. But playing the game right now, I can tell you it wasn't. The campaign is extremely difficult and you can proceed only if you play the...
2 more reviews
Hey, I'm Ryan Walker-just a regular bloke from Top House in Rotherham-you're gay, right? I bought Cossacks: Back to War or whatever, and it's absolutely awesome-in that cool, gay sort of way, like "skibidi," you know? Anyway, I've been playing it for three hours straight. But, well...
A legendary game actually one of the very first strategy games I played on PC. There is a bug where it crashes after a few hours of playing random battles, but aside from that, it's a great game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Cossacks: Back to War contains all of the gameplay features of Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: The Art of War, this is a complete care package for all current and future Cossacks fans. This add-on contains two new nations: Switzerland and Hungary.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Intel GMA 950, 553 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Cossacks: Back to War scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4850/cossacks-back-to-warReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.