Cossacks: European Wars
Skip · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $4.99.
- Length
- 29.6h 45.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.17/hr
- Reviews
- 74% of 637 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
This game is devoted to the key events of the XVII–XVIII centuries.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Video Card with 64MB dedicated memory and DirectX 9 Compatible, 348 MB of storage. Windows only.
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 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. Among the games that feel like it, Cossacks: Back to War ($4.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Stronghold Crusader 2 ($39.99, scores 38).
More about Cossacks: European Wars
This site sampled 324 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 57 percent of the 122 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
Players
- Players online
- 16 when we last checked, on Sep 28, 03:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Cossacks: European Wars, developed by GSC Game World and published by GSC World Publishing, stands as one of the most ambitious real-time strategy titles of its generation. Set against the turbulent backdrop of 17th and 18th century Europe, the game transports players into an era defined by gunpowder warfare, imperial ambition, and sweeping continental conflicts. Rather than narrowing its focus to a single nation or...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This is such a great game, just like I remebered. Easy game play, runs great, has some great features that even the great AOE doesn't have, making it a great addition to any RTS gamers collection. I would highly recommend this game.
Worked for me for a few hours, than just keep receiving a message "Direct Draw Init Failed (80004001)
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Cossacks: European Wars scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4880/cossacks-european-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 Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.