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Jon Shafer's At the Gates

Conifer Games · 2019-01-23

Steam

IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

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.

0
playing now
41%
positive of 499 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
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 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 36% of 18,216 Indie games in the census by review count.
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

Players online

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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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