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TheDawn

LIMITED · 2020-12-11

Steam

ActionAdventureFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Dec 11, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

TheDawn is a third-person shooting game about the journey of Maya, the superpowers who can manipulate time, and Max, the hacker who helps her. Will they be able to save mankind and face a new dawn?

TheDawn is an Action, Adventure, Free To Play, Indie game released in 2020, priced at free-to-play, with an estimated 500,000 .. 1,000,000 owners and Very Positive (93% of 8588 reviews).

1
playing now
93%
positive of 8.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
Free
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 76 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~10/week).
  • · Review velocity down 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (2,244 reviews).
  • · Top 5% of 27,535 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.1k2.1k20202026Week of 2020-12-01: 2,116 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1,315 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 433 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 40 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 324 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 29 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 296 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 222 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 381 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 165 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 114 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 118 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 151 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 99 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 112 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 43 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 55 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-14 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 2 players2026-09-17 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 02:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-29 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

10 supported languages: English, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Portugal

Where its players are

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

Player tags

3DCuteAnimeActionRobotsShooterAdventureAtmosphericBullet HellFree to Play

Census log

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

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