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El Dorado: The Golden City Builder cover art

El Dorado: The Golden City Builder

Hobo Bunch · Gameparic · 2024-06-17

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jun 17, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

El Dorado: The Golden City Builder is an Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2024, estimated to have 20,000 .. 50,000 owners, priced at $17.99, with a Mixed review sentiment (54% of 109 reviews).

0
playing now
54%
positive of 109 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$17.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 31% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (30 reviews).
  • · Top 34% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 2.2k–4.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 109 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.75 at GameBillet (2026-07-24)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 46 of 71 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920242026Week of 2024-06-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

102026-09-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$17.99$2.752024-06-172026-08-252024-06-17 — best price $15.292024-07-17 — best price $13.482024-08-20 — best price $13.382024-09-18 — best price $17.992024-10-22 — best price $10.782024-12-02 — best price $17.992025-01-02 — best price $16.012025-02-07 — best price $10.792025-03-10 — best price $17.992025-03-25 — best price $17.992025-04-12 — best price $5.772025-05-17 — best price $7.052025-06-09 — best price $14.912025-07-10 — best price $5.932025-07-24 — best price $4.592025-07-31 — best price $17.992025-08-24 — best price $5.312025-09-30 — best price $3.892025-10-17 — best price $4.502025-10-22 — best price $4.412025-11-24 — best price $3.892026-01-08 — best price $14.912026-01-31 — best price $15.472026-03-04 — best price $15.472026-03-26 — best price $4.412026-04-17 — best price $15.472026-05-15 — best price $3.492026-05-25 — best price $7.192026-06-10 — best price $4.142026-06-30 — best price $15.162026-07-31 — best price $15.472026-08-15 — best price $14.202026-08-25 — best price $2.75
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

21
achievements tracked
44.2%
earned "May god bless you"
4.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Player tags

RTSBuildingStrategySurvivalEducationMythologyRealisticColony SimManagementSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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