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Cossacks: European Wars

2001 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Real Time Strategy (RTS) · Strategy

80IGDB player score
69 ratings

Previously Take

A respectable 80 average that never found its audience. A strategy game for the planners — fantasy, historical as the backdrop, outthinking as the game. The story is the main course; the multiplayer is the reason it's still installed years later.

About this game

Cossacks: European Wars is a real-time strategy computer game for Windows made by the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World. It was released on April 24, 2001. 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 units. Players must avoid famine and engage in army expansion, building construction and simple resource gathering. Mission scenarios range from conflicts such as Thirty Years' War to the War of the Austrian Succession, and the game is renowned for the seemingly unlimited number of units players may control. This ability set it apart from other games of the time such as Age of Empires and Empire Earth. Cossacks is a game which allows the user to gain strategy skills and even pick up some relative history of that period by the inclusion of a comprehensive encyclopedia. This top selling title has won two awards and was positively favoured by a majority of reviewers.