Released Sep 2, 2010 $4.99 Very Positive Counts toward your Steam games

Cossacks: Back to War

By GSC Game World · published by GSC World Publishing

StrategyClassicRTS Multiplayer Historical War SingleplayerNostalgiaFree to Play

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Reviews 2,670 Very Positive

Players yesterday 124 at the busiest moment

Owners 200K–500K estimated

Cossacks: Back to War is a game tagged Strategy, Classic and RTS by GSC Game World, released Sep 2, 2010. It has 2,670 Steam reviews (Very Positive). It has an estimated 200K–500K owners on Steam. The Steam games most like it include BattleMore, Primordials: Battle of Gods and Interloper.

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.

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Interloper 86% match · Strategy, RTS, Multiplayer
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Steam data

Everything Steam lists for Cossacks: Back to War · record updated 21 hours ago

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Overview

App ID4850

Release dateSep 2, 2010Early Access Nov 1, 2002

Last change number37431529

Last record update21 hours ago

App type: Game
Developer: GSC Game World
Publisher: GSC World Publishing
Steam profile: Counts toward game count and achievement totals · checked Nov 1, 2025
Franchise: Cossacks
Metacritic: 60
Website: gsc-game.com

Language	Interface	Full audio	Subtitles
English	Yes
French	Yes
German	Yes
Russian	Yes

Windows

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Single-playerMulti-playerFamily Sharing

Prices

Price · US$4.99

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Lowest seen · US$4.99Oct 24, 2026

Checked17 hours agoin 40 regions

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Patches

Build	Branch	Updated
2684	public	Oct 24, 2026

Packages & DLC

ID	Name	Games	Price (US)
6088	Cossacks: Back to War	1	$4.99
11264	Cossacks and American Conquest Pack	7	$19.99
9713 Bundle	All Cossacks and American Conquest	8	$86.30

ID	Name	Price (US)
4856	Not on the store yet	—

Depots

ID	Name	Systems	Size	Download	Manifest
4851	—	All	166.8 MB	—	5062268753915264146
4852	— English	All	278.8 MB	—	8330247850732007769
4853	— French	All	283.8 MB	—	5900074958654791521
4854	— German	All	302.7 MB	—	4290800954579540879
4855	— Russian	All	250.7 MB	—	3386615622401147462
4856	— DLC 4856	All	49.5 MB	—	5672041570801864255
4857	— English	All	7.0 MB	—	4210763835529288497
4858	— French	All	7.0 MB	—	8366797792226302549
4859	— German	All	7.1 MB	—	8307510717791509099
4860	— Russian	All	7.0 MB	—	8527963131624770123

Branch	Build	Updated	Access
public	2684	—	Open

Configuration

Install foldersteamapps/common/Cossacks Back to War

Executable	Arguments	Systems	Description
bin\csbtw.exe		All
bin\csbtw.exe	/adhoc	All	Launch Cossacks: Back to War in Ad-Hoc mode
bin\HView.exe		All	Launch Encyclopedia
bin\ScenarioEditor.exe		All	Launch Scenario Editor
bin\cshlp.exe	/ReadMe	All	Show ReadMe
bin\cshlp.exe	/Docs	All	Open Documentation