Cossacks 3

Historical real-time strategy with vast armies and economic management

GSC Game World · Released Sep 20, 2016

Reviews: Very Positive; 82% of 16K
Recent reviews: Mostly Positive; 76% of 75 in 30 days
Playing now: 493; right now
Steam Deck: Unsupported
Last update: 8 years ago; Jun 21, 2018

What is Cossacks 3?

Cossacks 3 is a historical real-time strategy game set in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. You gather resources, build towns, research upgrades, and command land and naval forces in five historical campaigns or generated single-player and multiplayer matches.

For you if...

+you enjoy managing economies alongside large-scale battles
+you want historical campaigns and competitive or cooperative matches
+you prefer classic base-building real-time strategy

Not for you if...

−you dislike balancing several resources while commanding armies
−you want small, tightly controlled tactical battles

What players say

82% of 16,183 reviews are positive · 76% of 75 in the last 30 days

Players praise the large battles, detailed resource management, range of nations, and gameplay close to the original. The most common complaints are crashes, launch and loading failures on current systems, and unstable multiplayer; players also report bugs, weak pathfinding, and limited improvements over the first game.

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Cossacks 3 system requirements

As published by the developer.

Minimum

OS: Windows XP/7/8/10
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz / Core i3 1.6GHz / AMD Athlon II X2 280
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 9600 GT / Radeon HD 4830 / Intel HD5000
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Storage: 6 GB available space
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Notes: Screen Resolution - 1280x768