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Cossacks: Art of War cover art

Cossacks: Art of War

GSC Game World · GSC World Publishing · 2011-08-26

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 31, 2002 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Cossacks: The Art of War continues the history of the great battles of XVII–XVIII centuries

Cossacks: Art of War is a 2011 Strategy game priced at $4.99, with an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000 and a Very Positive sentiment from 82% of 380 reviews.

21
playing now
82%
positive of 380 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
IGDB user rating (25 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$4.99
steam price (US)

21 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 16:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 21 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 24% of 14,082 Strategy games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 15k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 380 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GamersGate$1.25-75%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.74 at GamersGate (2021-07-13) · bundled 5×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 52 of 64 observed days · $0.51 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
9920172026Week of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3532026-09-15 01:00 — 7 players2026-09-16 09:00 — 13 players2026-09-17 17:00 — 28 players2026-09-19 00:00 — 9 players2026-09-20 08:00 — 14 players2026-09-21 15:00 — 23 players2026-09-22 23:00 — 19 players2026-09-24 06:00 — 10 players2026-09-25 14:00 — 26 players2026-09-26 21:00 — 21 players2026-09-28 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-29 12:00 — 18 players2026-09-30 20:00 — 22 players2026-10-02 03:00 — 11 players2026-10-03 11:00 — 23 players2026-10-04 19:00 — 27 players2026-10-06 03:00 — 13 players2026-10-07 10:00 — 21 players2026-10-08 18:00 — 26 players2026-10-10 01:00 — 15 players2026-10-11 09:00 — 25 players2026-10-12 16:00 — 32 players2026-10-14 00:00 — 9 players2026-10-14 16:00 — 21 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
224Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 5 · peak 16Dec 2012 — avg 7 · peak 26May 2013 — avg 4 · peak 13Oct 2013 — avg 5 · peak 17Mar 2014 — avg 7 · peak 22Aug 2014 — avg 6 · peak 20Jan 2015 — avg 10 · peak 33Jun 2015 — avg 10 · peak 35Nov 2015 — avg 12 · peak 37Apr 2016 — avg 12 · peak 36Sep 2016 — avg 14 · peak 42Feb 2017 — avg 13 · peak 36Jul 2017 — avg 10 · peak 25Dec 2017 — avg 10 · peak 32May 2018 — avg 9 · peak 25Oct 2018 — avg 11 · peak 28Mar 2019 — avg 10 · peak 30Aug 2019 — avg 11 · peak 29Jan 2020 — avg 15 · peak 37Jun 2020 — avg 14 · peak 38Nov 2020 — avg 16 · peak 43Apr 2021 — avg 15 · peak 44Sep 2021 — avg 12 · peak 32Feb 2022 — avg 16 · peak 43Jul 2022 — avg 14 · peak 34Dec 2022 — avg 14 · peak 40May 2023 — avg 15 · peak 40Oct 2023 — avg 15 · peak 37Mar 2024 — avg 15 · peak 42Aug 2024 — avg 13 · peak 36Jan 2025 — avg 19 · peak 56Jun 2025 — avg 15 · peak 38Nov 2025 — avg 15 · peak 43Apr 2026 — avg 16 · peak 43Aug 2026 — avg 16 · peak 45
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$0.872015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $2.492016-04-11 — best price $1.992017-04-12 — best price $1.242017-11-01 — best price $4.992018-07-06 — best price $4.992019-01-28 — best price $4.992019-08-28 — best price $4.992020-01-27 — best price $4.992020-05-28 — best price $4.992020-06-26 — best price $4.492020-08-09 — best price $4.492020-09-09 — best price $4.492020-10-12 — best price $4.992020-11-10 — best price $4.492020-12-07 — best price $4.142021-01-13 — best price $4.142021-02-10 — best price $4.142021-03-14 — best price $4.142021-04-14 — best price $4.142021-05-11 — best price $4.142021-07-15 — best price $1.252021-11-05 — best price $4.992022-01-19 — best price $1.242022-04-26 — best price $3.662022-07-07 — best price $3.892022-11-29 — best price $4.992023-04-03 — best price $0.992023-06-17 — best price $3.892023-09-04 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $4.992024-04-29 — best price $3.592024-08-03 — best price $3.662024-11-20 — best price $1.252025-03-06 — best price $4.992025-06-26 — best price $1.242025-10-24 — best price $3.892026-03-27 — best price $3.892026-07-11 — best price $3.892026-09-17 — best price $1.252026-10-14 — best price $1.25
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2DRPGRTSCRPGWargameStrategyTop-DownDifficultReal-TimeHistorical

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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