Games Like Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

Cossacks 3 is the return of RTS classics. Obtain resources, build cities and research technologies while taking command of great armies, crushing enemies in grand historical warfares on land and sea!

Why similar: Strategy 40.4%, RTS 34.3%, Historical 25.3%

Why You'll Like It: A modern reimagining of the classic Cossacks formula that retains the massive army sizes and historical RTS gameplay.

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.

Why similar: Strategy 55.4%, RTS 25.8%, Historical 18.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is the direct predecessor to the seed game, sharing the same engine, mechanics, and Napoleonic setting.

In American Conquest, Players set sail from Europe to discover new world and conquer its innumerable riches.

Why similar: Strategy 46.6%, RTS 30.5%, Historical 22.9%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game uses a very similar engine and focuses on large-scale historical warfare.

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

Why similar: Strategy 64.5%, RTS 19.3%, Historical 16.2%

Why You'll Like It: The original entry in the series that established the core mechanics of massive unit counts and resource-heavy RTS gameplay.

Complete your Total War collection with this Definitive Edition of Total War: NAPOLEON, which includes all DLC and feature updates since the game’s release

Why similar: Strategy 46.4%, Historical 34.4%, RTS 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive grand strategy experience for the Napoleonic era, combining turn-based empire management with massive real-time tactical battles.

It is a time of war in Europe. Driven by new ideas of Enlightenment, the hearts of men and women across the continent are inflamed with dreams of freedom and glory. This is the moment for a military genius to forge himself a name to be remembered throughout all eternity. This is your moment.

Why similar: Strategy 47.5%, RTS 28.6%, Historical 23.9%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that specifically focuses on the Napoleonic era, blending global strategy with real-time tactical combat.

American Conquest: Fight Back is the sequel to American Conquest. The most significant events of that glorious time have found their way into this title.

Why similar: Strategy 46.4%, RTS 33.6%, Historical 20%

Why You'll Like It: An expansion that builds upon the original American Conquest engine with more units and historical scenarios.

Cossacks: Back to War contains all of the gameplay features of Cossacks: European Wars and Cossacks: The Art of War, this is a complete care package for all current and future Cossacks fans. This add-on contains two new nations: Switzerland and Hungary.

Why similar: Strategy 52.8%, RTS 31.8%, Historical 15.3%

Why You'll Like It: A standalone expansion for the original Cossacks that adds significant content and remains a staple of the series.

Rise of Nations is back! Play the updated classic with full Steamworks integration and enhanced features!

Why similar: Strategy 44%, RTS 38.2%, Historical 17.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic historical RTS that captures the grand scale of empire building and large-scale warfare across different eras.

Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical real time strategy war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history - the American Civil War of 1861-1865.

Why similar: RTS 39%, Strategy 32.8%, Historical 28.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers deep tactical control over large formations and historical units, mirroring the intensity of Cossacks' combat.

Lead powerful civilizations across the globe, master strategies and tactics, and relive history in co op battles—now remastered in stunning 4K and modernized gameplay.

Why similar: Strategy 43.6%, RTS 35.6%, Historical 20.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features similar gunpowder-era combat and base-building mechanics within a polished, modern historical RTS framework.

Experience the ultimate WWII RTS platform with COH2 and its standalone expansions. This package includes the base game, which you can then upgrade by purchasing The Western Front Armies, Ardennes Assault and/or The British Forces. More info in the "About This Game" section below.

Why similar: Strategy 75.7%, RTS 17.5%, Historical 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A highly polished tactical RTS that emphasizes historical accuracy and strategic positioning.

XIII Century Gold Edition combines the highly successful strategy game XIII Century: Death or Glory with the follow-up sequel, XIII Century: Blood of Europe.XIII Century: Death or Glory is an RTS game which immerses players in the Middle Ages.

Why similar: Strategy 82.5%, RTS 17.5%

Why You'll Like It: A dedicated tactical RTS that emphasizes large-scale historical battles and formation-based combat.

Men of War: Assault Squad 2 expands the real-time tactics series with new skirmish missions, massive multiplayer battles, enhanced visuals, improved AI, and full Direct Control. Command five factions across 65 maps, 250 vehicles, and 200 soldiers in one of the most detailed WWII RTS experiences.

Why similar: Strategy 52.7%, RTS 33.1%, Historical 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intense, tactical historical warfare with a high level of detail for individual unit management.

Steel Division 2 is a historically-accurate WW2 real-time strategy game set on the Eastern Front. Features 1:1-scale turn-based army management and real-time tactical battles with thousands of men at your order.

Why similar: Strategy 40.2%, RTS 38.2%, Historical 21.6%

Why You'll Like It: Provides high-fidelity tactical combat on a massive scale, perfect for players who enjoy managing large historical armies.

Become the king and fight over Europe in this fresh take on medieval real-time grand strategy. Manage provinces, gather armies, initiate diplomacy, and dabble in espionage. The path is open: become the true Sovereign of your people and bring them to glory.

Why similar: Strategy 50.4%, RTS 31.4%, Historical 18.2%

Why You'll Like It: Combines grand strategy with real-time tactical battles, offering a similar scope to the Cossacks series.

Real Warfare: 1242, is a realistic real-time strategy game based on authentic historic events.

Why similar: Strategy 72.2%, RTS 27.8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical RTS that focuses on realistic formation-based combat and large-scale troop movements.

Warrior Kings: Battles maintains the excitement that made Warrior Kings a leading RTS. It is a stand-alone title that adds a new strategic and tactical dimension to the series.

Why similar: Strategy 60.4%, RTS 39.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features complex formation-based combat and base-building mechanics similar to the Cossacks series.

Rome: Total War - Alexander is the second official expansion pack to Rome: Total War. An entirely new campaign map that stretches from Macedonia to Greece and into the heart of the ancient Persian Empire New campaign game that tasks players with matching the exploits of Alexander the Great as he swept across Central Asia and dominated...

Why similar: Strategy 54.4%, RTS 24.4%, Historical 21.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic historical grand strategy title that offers large-scale tactical battles similar to the Cossacks experience.

Conquer the ancient Greek world in Hegemony Gold: Wars of Ancient Greece, an epic strategy wargame that expands and refines the award-winning Hegemony: Philip of Macedon with brand new content and features.

Why similar: Strategy 48.1%, Historical 28.9%, RTS 23%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game with a strong focus on logistics, supply lines, and historical campaigns.

A Tactical Battle Simulator that allows you to command thousands of soldiers as a Union or Confederate General. The game features the most accurately created map, a non-linear battle campaign, complex morale, innovative control mechanics and smart AI.

Why similar: Strategy 41.3%, Historical 31.3%, RTS 27.3%

Why You'll Like It: A deep tactical simulation that focuses on the complexities of historical battlefield command.

Reign: Conflict of Nations allows players to have a well thought-out and historically accurate system of building and assigning labor forces in cities, a large selection of scenario-based and random missions, an expansive and realistic technology tree, more than 150 types of military units and elaborated graphics and animations which brin

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: Blends grand strategy with real-time tactical elements, focusing on historical European warfare.

Ice Crusade is a stand-alone expansion for post-apocalyptic real time strategy Cuban Missile Crisis. Ice Crusade continues the original story and adds new campaigns, battlegrounds and units.

Why similar: Strategy 80.9%, RTS 19.1%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game that focuses on historical military units and tactical combat scenarios.

Aggression is a military real-time strategy game set within a historic context featuring role-playing elements. Play the role of a political leader of Russia, Great Britain, France or Germany. It is up to you to take firm decisions at the crucial period of the European history – the World Wars ages covering 1914 – 1945.

Why similar: Strategy 80.9%, RTS 19.1%

Why You'll Like It: A historical RTS that covers early 20th-century warfare with a focus on strategic and tactical depth.

October 22, 2009 - Update has released free Downloadable Content for Order of War. The DLC will download automatically the next time you launch the game. This DLC contains all the formerly exclusive pre-order items which include: Heavy Bomber Squadrons - Addition of German Arado and Allied B-24 Marauder heavy bomber units to air support...

Why similar: Strategy 67.9%, RTS 32.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features large-scale tactical RTS combat set in a historical context, emphasizing massive unit counts.

Sudden Strike is back! The beloved Real Time Strategy series returns, this time with bigger battlefields, more units, better graphics, new scenarios and legendary commanders – making Sudden Strike 4 more tactical and realistic than ever before!

Why similar: Strategy 47%, RTS 35.9%, Historical 17.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical unit management and historical accuracy in a real-time strategy environment.

WORLD WAR II: PANZER CLAWS [aka Frontline Attack: War over Europe] pushes back the boundaries of real-time strategy gaming!Take control of the Allied, German, or the Russian in the harsh reality of the battlefields of World War II.

Why similar: Strategy 93.3%, RTS 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic historical RTS that focuses on unit management and tactical positioning on the battlefield.

Red Tide blends deep RTS tactics with the raw intensity of third-person combat. Created in collaboration with author Alexander Zorich, this standalone expansion tells the story of the Black Coats – Soviet Naval Infantry famed for their ruthless precision in the Black Sea campaigns.

Why similar: Strategy 54.5%, RTS 32.7%, Historical 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical historical RTS that emphasizes infantry combat and mission-based objectives.

Set in World War 2, Sudden Strike offers revolutionary real-time-strategy gameplay. Command Russian, German, French, American and British armies in large scale battles including urban warfare, beach landings and aerial invasions. Whichever tactics you choose, you will find it in Sudden Strike!

Why similar: Strategy 66.2%, RTS 33.8%

Real Warfare 2: Northern Crusades is the next installment in this series of realistic real-time strategy games covering various periods in the development of the present day civilization – from the Middle Ages to today.

Why similar: Strategy 100%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical historical RTS that emphasizes medieval warfare and large-scale unit formations.

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

Why similar: RTS 41.7%, Strategy 30.3%, Historical 28.1%

Experience the sequel to the Role-playing Real Time Strategy Hit!

Why similar: Strategy 67.3%, RTS 32.7%

Why You'll Like It: Combines RTS combat with historical-fantasy elements, providing a unique tactical experience.

The Western Front Armies is a multiplayer standalone for COH2 that adds two factions to the roster of playable multiplayer armies: the Oberkommando West (OKW) and the US Forces (USF). Each army can also be purchased separately.

Why similar: Strategy 62.1%, RTS 24.3%, Historical 13.7%

Relive the celebrated real-time strategy classic Praetorians, re-imagined in high definition. Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire.

Why similar: Strategy 74.4%, RTS 25.6%

Experience the hit World War 2 real-time strategy game for the first time in full 3D glory, expanding on all strategic and tactical options. Command joint operations of naval, land-based and airborne units on the largest maps in the series.

Why similar: Strategy 69.8%, RTS 30.2%

At the height of World War 2, take command of German, Russian, British, American and Imperial Japanese armies on battelfields across the globe. Sudden Strike 2 expands on all aspects of the classic RTS game with new units, maps and epic campaigns.

Why similar: Strategy 61.8%, RTS 38.2%

Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire. You will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the combat theaters of Gaul and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy in the crusade to become Emperor.

Why similar: Strategy 53.1%, RTS 30.2%, Historical 16.7%

Men of War: Vietnam brings the acclaimed real-time tactics series into a new theater of war – the jungles of Southeast Asia, 1968. Experience the chaos of the Vietnam War through two story-driven campaigns that reveal both sides of the conflict.

Why similar: Strategy 55.8%, RTS 26.2%, Historical 18%

From the multi-award-winning strategy series, A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia combines huge real-time battles with engrossing turn-based campaign, set at a critical flashpoint in history. Anglo-Saxons, Gaelic clans and Viking settlers clash for control. What Kingdom will you build?

Why similar: Strategy 41.6%, Historical 30.6%, RTS 27.8%

The next chapter in the #1 rated RTS franchise thrusts players into a hellish war torn landscape to command two battle-hardened armies in relentless campaigns for honor and country. Players lead the tenacious British 2nd Army during the heroic World War II liberation of Caen, France, and command the German Panzer Elite as they struggle...

Why similar: Strategy 55.9%, RTS 38.5%, Historical 5.6%

Return to the bloody battlefields of World War II in this epic sequel. Blitzkrieg 2 returns you to the gritty realism of WWII battles while pushing your focus into new, strategic opportunities during global war!

Why similar: Strategy 45.1%, RTS 37.2%, Historical 17.7%

Men of War is a stunning Real-Time Strategy game that takes place during the height of World War II. Intense battles span Europe and North Africa as gamers play as Soviet, Allied or German forces across 19 massive single-player missions.

Why similar: Strategy 59.2%, RTS 31.6%, Historical 9.2%

The game expands the story of the original Perimeter in a vast singleplayer campaign.

Why similar: Strategy 75.7%, RTS 24.3%

A one-of-a-kind real-time strategy game that allows players to bluff their enemies to lead their nation to victory. The Definitive Edition — includes all DLCs and Steam Deck support.

Why similar: Strategy 49%, RTS 35.6%, Historical 15.4%

It’s 2741 and the universe is at war. The Terran Empire is laying siege to the NSA, a treaty of colonies that upholds freedom and democracy. After losing the battle in space, the NSA is forced to retreat to its last stronghold. Can you snatch victory from impending doom?

Why similar: Strategy 74.5%, RTS 25.5%

March into the real-time strategy legend, Blitzkrieg, and prepare for war. This legendary WWII RTS blends unprecedented realism and accuracy to form immersive 3D backgrounds and a game where brute force often takes a back seat to strategy and wits.

Why similar: Strategy 50%, RTS 30%, Historical 20%

As King, it is your duty to lead your people in their struggle to raise your kingdom from its humble beginnings to a position of power and prestige. War, diplomacy and a burgeoning economy are the means by which you increase your power and expand your influence.

Why similar: Strategy 55.4%, RTS 26%, Historical 18.6%

Lead the battles that forged the greatest Empire of all time. Seven civilizations fighting for glory or freedom: Rome, Aegyptus, Britannia, Germania, Gallia, Hispania, and Carthago. Enjoy the fast-paced RTC “Real-Time Conquest” gameplay, an Old School RTS oriented to military conquest.

Why similar: Strategy 43.9%, RTS 31.3%, Historical 24.9%

This individual army for COH2 allows you to access all existing COH2 maps in auto-match, and play against all other existing factions in multiplayer. It can also be obtained at a discount by acquiring The Western Front Armies multiplayer standalone, where it is bundled with the USF army.

Why similar: Strategy 82.2%, RTS 17.8%

Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ is the expansion to the Game of the Year winner and highest rated real time strategy franchise Company of Heroes®. Featuring new campaigns to overcome, units to command, and battlefields to conquer, Company of Heroes®: Tales of Valor™ delivers evolved gameplay mechanics and 3 episodic adventures...

Why similar: Strategy 55.5%, RTS 39.8%, Historical 4.7%

Take command in Europe's greatest 18th-century war. Equip & customize regiments, manage supplies, and engage in brutal real-time battles across procedural campaigns. Resources and replacements are scarce, and keeping your best men alive may matter more than any single victory.

Why similar: RTS 34.2%, Historical 33%, Strategy 32.8%

Cuban Missile Crisis is a real-time strategy game combined with a global turn-based tactical mode, thrusting gamers into a world ravaged by the military-political confrontation between the USA and USSR in 1962.

Why similar: Strategy 70.4%, RTS 29.6%

Men of War: Assault Squad delivers a deeply tactical WWII experience, blending large-scale strategy with intense, hands-on combat. Fight across multiple fronts – from European countryside to Pacific jungles and command every unit and every bullet on the battlefield.

Why similar: Strategy 56.3%, RTS 29.2%, Historical 14.5%

Call to Arms - Gates of Hell is a realistic RTS/ RTT game that offers endless replay value. Command all types of troops in historical singleplayer, dynamic campaign, PvP and PvE battles. Are you ready for some serious immersion in World War 2?

Why similar: RTS 34.6%, Historical 33.1%, Strategy 32.3%

Experience warfare like never before! Men of War II, the anticipated sequel to the highly acclaimed RTS franchise is here with all-new units, locations, campaigns, game modes and true trademarks of the series: historical fidelity and action-filled gameplay on the Eastern and Western Fronts of WWII.

Why similar: RTS 38.2%, Strategy 31.8%, Historical 30%

Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

Why similar: Strategy 45.5%, Historical 31.5%, RTS 23%

Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar takes you to the plains and forests of ancient Gaul where Julius Caesar wages a decade long war to subjugate the barbarian hordes. Hegemony Rome will immerse you in the history like no other real time strategy game ever before, forcing you to pay close attention to the changing seasons and rapidly...

Why similar: Strategy 55.1%, Historical 22.7%, RTS 22.2%

Command a special task force composed of different kinds of units, including tanks, APCs, field guns, mortars, various infantry regiments and will also have an opportunity to call for artillery and air support.

Why similar: Strategy 68.4%, RTS 31.6%

This individual army for COH2 allows you to access all existing COH2 maps in auto-match, and play against all other existing factions in multiplayer. It can also be obtained at a discount by acquiring The Western Front Armies multiplayer standalone, where it is bundled with the OKW army.

Why similar: Strategy 67.8%, RTS 32.2%