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Cossacks: European Wars cover art

Cossacks: European Wars

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

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Apr 24, 2001 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

This game is devoted to the key events of the XVII–XVIII centuries.

23
playing now
74%
positive of 633 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
79/100
IGDB user rating (67 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

23 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy video game for Microsoft Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on 28 November 2000. The game has an isometric view and is set in the 17th and 18th centuries of Europe. It features sixteen playable nations each with its own architectural styles, technologies and no limit on unit numbers.

Health check

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  • · Top 39% of 5,887 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 25k–51k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 633 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Steam$1.24-75%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$4.99

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 65 of 82 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

44102026-08-11 17:00 — 32 players2026-08-12 09:00 — 23 players2026-08-13 01:00 — 10 players2026-08-13 16:00 — 33 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 16 players2026-08-15 00:00 — 13 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 38 players2026-08-16 08:00 — 22 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-17 16:00 — 38 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 22 players2026-08-18 23:00 — 20 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 44 players2026-08-20 07:00 — 20 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 22 players2026-08-21 14:00 — 43 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 14 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 24 players2026-08-23 14:00 — 31 players2026-08-24 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 28 players2026-08-25 13:00 — 24 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 15 players2026-08-26 22:00 — 17 players2026-08-27 14:00 — 25 players2026-08-28 06:00 — 10 players2026-08-28 22:00 — 22 players2026-08-29 13:00 — 41 players2026-08-30 06:00 — 23 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.872015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $2.492016-07-04 — best price $4.992017-04-24 — best price $4.992018-05-16 — best price $4.992019-02-04 — best price $1.492019-11-11 — best price $4.992020-04-13 — best price $0.942020-06-16 — best price $4.492020-08-05 — best price $4.992020-09-10 — best price $4.992020-10-15 — best price $0.942020-11-18 — best price $4.992021-01-09 — best price $4.142021-02-22 — best price $4.992021-03-29 — best price $1.042021-05-04 — best price $4.992021-06-14 — best price $0.942021-10-23 — best price $4.142022-02-10 — best price $4.992022-05-31 — best price $3.662022-10-31 — best price $1.242023-02-06 — best price $1.242023-05-08 — best price $0.992023-08-07 — best price $1.042023-11-21 — best price $1.242024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-07-15 — best price $1.252024-10-08 — best price $3.892025-01-27 — best price $1.252025-05-29 — best price $1.242025-09-06 — best price $3.662026-02-05 — best price $1.242026-06-02 — best price $3.892026-08-18 — best price $1.242026-08-24 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

189422026-05-31 — 77 pageviews2026-06-03 — 63 pageviews2026-06-06 — 72 pageviews2026-06-09 — 98 pageviews2026-06-12 — 74 pageviews2026-06-15 — 56 pageviews2026-06-18 — 64 pageviews2026-06-21 — 69 pageviews2026-06-24 — 115 pageviews2026-06-27 — 71 pageviews2026-06-30 — 59 pageviews2026-07-03 — 89 pageviews2026-07-06 — 68 pageviews2026-07-09 — 80 pageviews2026-07-12 — 69 pageviews2026-07-15 — 53 pageviews2026-07-18 — 60 pageviews2026-07-21 — 58 pageviews2026-07-24 — 84 pageviews2026-07-27 — 63 pageviews2026-07-30 — 50 pageviews2026-08-02 — 79 pageviews2026-08-05 — 77 pageviews2026-08-08 — 74 pageviews2026-08-11 — 46 pageviews2026-08-14 — 68 pageviews2026-08-17 — 89 pageviews2026-08-20 — 85 pageviews2026-08-23 — 103 pageviews2026-08-26 — 86 pageviews2026-08-28 — 79 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

RTSClassicStrategyHistoricalSingleplayer

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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