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dotAGE

Michele Pirovano · 2023-10-04

SteamGOG

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Oct 04, 2023 (Linux), Oct 04, 2023 (Mac), Oct 04, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 24, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?

dotAGE is an Indie, Simulation, and Strategy title released in 2023, priced at $17.59, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (95% of 2673 reviews) and an owner estimate of 100,000 .. 200,000.

25
playing now
95%
positive of 2.7k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$17.59
steam price (US)

25 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 25 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 154 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~19/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (705 reviews).
  • · Top 6% of 49,919 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 54k–121k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,684 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.05-20%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $10.55 at Steam (2026-06-03)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.59 · on sale 79 of 101 observed days · $3.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
68168120232026Week of 2023-10-01: 681 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 183 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 6 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

55192026-09-15 15:00 — 24 players2026-09-17 00:00 — 37 players2026-09-18 07:00 — 28 players2026-09-19 15:00 — 35 players2026-09-20 22:00 — 42 players2026-09-22 06:00 — 24 players2026-09-23 13:00 — 28 players2026-09-24 21:00 — 34 players2026-09-26 04:00 — 21 players2026-09-27 12:00 — 23 players2026-09-28 19:00 — 28 players2026-09-30 03:00 — 26 players2026-10-01 10:00 — 20 players2026-10-02 18:00 — 32 players2026-10-04 02:00 — 39 players2026-10-05 10:00 — 30 players2026-10-06 17:00 — 42 players2026-10-08 01:00 — 36 players2026-10-09 08:00 — 28 players2026-10-10 16:00 — 47 players2026-10-11 23:00 — 33 players2026-10-13 07:00 — 19 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 38 players2026-10-15 06:00 — 25 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
40533Oct 2023Aug 2026Oct 2023 — avg 405 · peak 1,040Nov 2023 — avg 172 · peak 316Dec 2023 — avg 140 · peak 280Jan 2024 — avg 255 · peak 651Feb 2024 — avg 153 · peak 408Mar 2024 — avg 119 · peak 292Apr 2024 — avg 65 · peak 129May 2024 — avg 153 · peak 451Jun 2024 — avg 111 · peak 233Jul 2024 — avg 142 · peak 278Aug 2024 — avg 88 · peak 196Sep 2024 — avg 70 · peak 150Oct 2024 — avg 55 · peak 113Nov 2024 — avg 59 · peak 126Dec 2024 — avg 81 · peak 181Jan 2025 — avg 78 · peak 203Feb 2025 — avg 55 · peak 131Mar 2025 — avg 183 · peak 744Apr 2025 — avg 208 · peak 467May 2025 — avg 74 · peak 142Jun 2025 — avg 80 · peak 169Jul 2025 — avg 61 · peak 114Aug 2025 — avg 68 · peak 144Sep 2025 — avg 58 · peak 128Oct 2025 — avg 52 · peak 98Nov 2025 — avg 38 · peak 104Dec 2025 — avg 51 · peak 80Jan 2026 — avg 42 · peak 80Feb 2026 — avg 34 · peak 68Mar 2026 — avg 41 · peak 96Apr 2026 — avg 38 · peak 73May 2026 — avg 33 · peak 59Jun 2026 — avg 119 · peak 279Jul 2026 — avg 55 · peak 118Aug 2026 — avg 40 · peak 78
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$17.59$10.552023-10-042026-10-152023-10-04 — best price $14.952024-01-04 — best price $17.592024-02-22 — best price $14.952024-03-14 — best price $14.952024-04-29 — best price $14.952024-05-25 — best price $17.592024-09-02 — best price $14.072024-10-16 — best price $17.592024-11-21 — best price $17.592024-12-04 — best price $13.192025-01-03 — best price $17.592025-01-27 — best price $14.072025-03-13 — best price $14.952025-04-04 — best price $17.592025-06-02 — best price $14.072025-07-10 — best price $17.592025-08-01 — best price $17.592025-09-12 — best price $13.192025-10-07 — best price $13.192025-11-19 — best price $17.592025-12-06 — best price $17.592026-01-05 — best price $17.592026-02-02 — best price $17.592026-03-08 — best price $17.592026-03-26 — best price $17.592026-04-22 — best price $14.052026-05-14 — best price $14.052026-06-17 — best price $17.592026-08-12 — best price $17.592026-08-29 — best price $14.052026-09-03 — best price $14.052026-09-08 — best price $14.052026-09-13 — best price $14.052026-09-18 — best price $14.052026-09-23 — best price $17.592026-09-28 — best price $14.052026-10-03 — best price $14.052026-10-08 — best price $14.052026-10-13 — best price $14.052026-10-15 — best price $14.05
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
81.4%
earned "A doomed village"
19.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsAdjustable Text SizeCamera ComfortCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyMouse Only Option#category_playable_at_your_own_pace3 DLC

9 supported languages: English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2023-10-04, latest 2026-06-03 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,0400%157
Switch (Nintendo)50%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

CuteFunnyBuildingSurvivalTabletopDifficultBoard GameColony SimDark HumorRogue-lite

Census log

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

Recent updates

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