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Builders of Egypt

Strategy Labs · 2025-01-08

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 08, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!

33%
positive of 500 reviews
Mostly Negative
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.59
steam price (US)
Builders of Egypt is an economic type of city-building game taking place in Ancient Egypt. The story starts in a little-known protodynastic period. The player will be able to observe the birth of Egyptian Civilization and the game will finish with the fall of the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Cleopatra's death.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 69% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (165 reviews).
  • · Top 36% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10k–23k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 500 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$19.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $4.59 at Steam (2026-08-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 10 of 37 observed days · $15.40 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
929220252026Week of 2025-01-08: 73 positiveWeek of 2025-01-08: 92 negativeWeek of 2025-01-15: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-01-15: 22 negativeWeek of 2025-01-22: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-01-22: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-01-29: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-29: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-05: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-05: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-02-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-19: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-26: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-05: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-03-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-19: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-26: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-16: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-16: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-23: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-30: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-05-14: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-21: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-28: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-06-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-25: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-02: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-09: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-09: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-23: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-30: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-06: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-13: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-03: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-09-10: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-09-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-24: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-08: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-22: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-12: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-19: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-26: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-03: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-24: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-31: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-21: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-25: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-22: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-06: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-29: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-12: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-19: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$4.592025-01-082026-08-302025-01-08 — best price $17.592025-01-28 — best price $17.992025-02-03 — best price $19.992025-02-11 — best price $19.992025-02-21 — best price $15.992025-02-26 — best price $19.992025-03-13 — best price $15.792025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-04-09 — best price $19.992025-05-23 — best price $19.992025-06-24 — best price $19.992025-07-10 — best price $19.992025-08-07 — best price $19.992025-09-17 — best price $19.392025-09-29 — best price $9.792025-12-18 — best price $9.592026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $9.392026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-17 — best price $19.992026-04-25 — best price $8.992026-04-30 — best price $17.992026-05-29 — best price $6.992026-06-09 — best price $19.992026-06-24 — best price $17.572026-06-30 — best price $19.992026-07-12 — best price $5.592026-07-17 — best price $19.992026-07-31 — best price $19.992026-08-27 — best price $19.992026-08-29 — best price $19.992026-08-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Turkish

Player tags

RTSWarIndieEconomySandboxBuildingStrategyTacticalMythologyRealistic

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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