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Jon Shafer's At the Gates cover art

Jon Shafer's At the Gates

Conifer Games · 2019-01-23

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jan 23, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 23, 2019 (Mac), Jan 23, 2019 (Linux)

At the Gates is an indie strategy game from Jon Shafer, designer of Civilization 5. You are a dark age lord building a kingdom to replace the crumbling Roman Empire. Manage your clans, explore the landscape around you, harvest its resources, and build a mighty economic and military machine.

Jon Shafer's At the Gates is an Indie and Strategy game released in 2019, priced at $29.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (41% of 499 reviews).

0
playing now
41%
positive of 499 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
critic score (6 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (1 ratings)
$29.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 06:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (150 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 49,548 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 12k–30k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 499 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $9.89 at Steam (2020-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
797920192026Week of 2019-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 21:00 — 2 players2026-09-23 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-28 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 02:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 09:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-06 09:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 16:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-12 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 06:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$29.99$9.892019-01-232021-01-052019-01-23 — best price $26.992019-01-24 — best price $26.992019-01-30 — best price $29.992019-06-25 — best price $20.092019-07-01 — best price $19.792019-07-08 — best price $29.992019-07-09 — best price $29.992019-12-19 — best price $14.992020-01-02 — best price $29.992020-01-23 — best price $14.992020-01-27 — best price $29.992020-06-25 — best price $9.892020-07-09 — best price $29.992020-12-22 — best price $9.892021-01-05 — best price $29.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

4XIndieStrategyHistoricalSingleplayerTurn-Based Strategy

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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