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Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars cover art

Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars

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

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Apr 15, 2005 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 26, 2005 (Linux)

Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars sends the player into the heroic XIX century where they assume the role of a commander to take part in the massive historical battles for the supremacy over Europe.

5
playing now
57%
positive of 652 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
68/100
IGDB user rating (20 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

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

Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars is a real-time strategy game and the second installment in the Cossacks series, released in 2005. This game focuses exclusively on the Napoleonic era, meaning it has a much shorter time span than others in this series, which spanned several centuries. Therefore, fewer technologies can be researched than in other Cossacks games, and there aren't as many different unit types for each country as before. On the other hand, Cossacks II allows a large number of units to be trained and it has many tactical options and an updated graphical engine.

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  • · Top 39% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 26k–52k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 652 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

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$0.742015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $2.492016-07-04 — best price $4.992017-09-08 — best price $4.992018-08-30 — best price $1.002019-04-19 — best price $4.992019-12-19 — best price $1.242020-05-25 — best price $4.992020-07-03 — best price $4.992020-08-21 — best price $4.492020-10-01 — best price $4.492020-11-07 — best price $4.492020-12-16 — best price $1.442021-02-10 — best price $1.062021-03-20 — best price $4.142021-04-23 — best price $4.142021-06-21 — best price $1.142021-11-05 — best price $4.992022-02-05 — best price $4.992022-05-30 — best price $1.242022-10-03 — best price $1.242023-01-20 — best price $1.002023-05-01 — best price $4.992023-07-26 — best price $1.202023-11-04 — best price $4.992024-02-19 — best price $3.662024-06-12 — best price $3.662024-09-07 — best price $3.662024-12-30 — best price $4.992025-05-06 — best price $3.892025-08-18 — best price $1.252026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-04-27 — best price $1.252026-08-10 — best price $1.252026-08-24 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing

3 supported languages: English, Russian, German

Player tags

RTSStrategyHistoricalSingleplayer

Census log

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

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