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American Conquest: Fight Back

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2011

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Massive scale battles with thousands of units
  • Historical accuracy and diverse factions
  • Deep strategic gameplay and formations
  • Robust single-player campaigns and scenarios
  • Affordable price with high replay value

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical issues on modern systems requiring compatibility tweaks
  • Multiplayer is difficult to set up and unstable
  • Ai can be unbalanced and frustrating
  • Long and slow-paced battles may feel tedious
  • Some bugs and pathfinding problems

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • A Total War Saga: THRONES OF BRITANNIA

  • Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

  • TFC: The Fertile Crescent

  • Cossacks: European Wars

  • Sudden Strike 5

  • Sudden Strike 2 Gold

More fantastical

Games that feels like American Conquest: Fight Back but with more imaginative fiction

  • Age of Mythology: Retold

  • Command & Conquer™ Tiberian Sun™ and Firestorm™

  • STAR WARS™ Galactic Battlegrounds Saga

  • Age of Darkness: Final Stand

  • Hex Commander: Fantasy Heroes

  • Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

More intimate

Games that feels like American Conquest: Fight Back but with more focus on close relationships

  • Cossacks: Back to War

  • Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition

  • Cossacks 3

  • Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

  • Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

  • Praetorians

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Cossacks: European Wars

  • Cossacks II: Battle for Europe

  • Cossacks: Art of War

  • Cossacks: Back to War

  • Cossacks 3

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Similarity map

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
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  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

American Conquest: Fight Back: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy.

Last update: 03/08/2026