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dotAGE
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?
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “Resource-management colony building” (39 of 72 reviews) and “Demanding, fair roguelite challenge” (15); the most common complaint is “Stressful, luck-heavy difficulty” (5). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
39 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“dotAGE is a stressful and addictive. You started the game, blinked then 3 hours passed. I learnt to set a 30 minutes alarm to keep track of time. Yet here I am coming back for more. This is not a casual game. From the…”
“I love the quirkiness of pips, I love navigating the tech tree while trying to mitigate disasters, I love the settlement building. Addicting game, challenging and rewarding, 10/10.”
“It's good and cute and the complexity just keeps on increasing as you progress. It has such a unique combination of features from different genres, but they all fit perfectly into this masterpiece of a game. "One more…”
15 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“dotAGE is a stressful and addictive. You started the game, blinked then 3 hours passed. I learnt to set a 30 minutes alarm to keep track of time. Yet here I am coming back for more. This is not a casual game. From the…”
“I love the quirkiness of pips, I love navigating the tech tree while trying to mitigate disasters, I love the settlement building. Addicting game, challenging and rewarding, 10/10.”
“Its a game that has two major hurdles, figuring out what it expects of you, then discovering the aspects that make the game have an enduring difficulty since the first playthrough plays with easy numbers. Talking too…”
15 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“It's good and cute and the complexity just keeps on increasing as you progress. It has such a unique combination of features from different genres, but they all fit perfectly into this masterpiece of a game. "One more…”
“Apparently, I haven't posted a review for this game yet? I came across dotAGE because of the collaboration they did with Against the Storm, another great game, and I was pleasantly surprised at how great this one is. It…”
“Great game, at time of writing I've sunk 46hrs into the game. A single game story without losing early was about 12hrs on average. I generally lost in the last 30 turns. 2 games I made it to the final day and failed. I…”
12 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“See how I have 18 hours on record? Thats just from one failed run and one successful run. You will easily get your money's worth from this game.”
“dotAGE is a stressful and addictive. You started the game, blinked then 3 hours passed. I learnt to set a 30 minutes alarm to keep track of time. Yet here I am coming back for more. This is not a casual game. From the…”
“Its a game that has two major hurdles, figuring out what it expects of you, then discovering the aspects that make the game have an enduring difficulty since the first playthrough plays with easy numbers. Talking too…”
11 of the 72 reviews raise this.
“dotAGE is a stressful and addictive. You started the game, blinked then 3 hours passed. I learnt to set a 30 minutes alarm to keep track of time. Yet here I am coming back for more. This is not a casual game. From the…”
“Pleasant pixelated puzzle-solver in the form of a turn-based colony-builder with roguelite elements. The point of the game is that it is a CHALLENGE; runs will be different and complicated in unique ways every time you…”
5 of the 72 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
3 of the 72 reviews raise this · 1 of them still recommend the game.
Counted across 72 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 95.1% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“Great resource management game! I've really enjoyed it. Quick tip: start first game in easy ;)”
— a player, Steam review · 29 hrs played“Very fun and cute, strong "one more turn" energy”
— a player, Steam review · 82 hrs played“Feels like a puzzle game. It's a fine line: resource management vs puzzle game. The former leaves more room for individual strategies and approaches; the latter means you gotta figure out the correct way to do stuff and follow it then. This is a mixture of both. Which means the…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-22.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Achievements sets for DLCs!
Hello Elders! Steam just rolled out an update that lets developers organize achievements into categories, and especially lets us tie achievements to DLCs, so I went ahead and moved all the new achieve
Happy 3rd Birthday dotAGE!
Hello Elders! I am here again with a small post to celebrate with you all the third birthday of dotAGE! The last three years have been a blur for me, with all the updates post release and the two DLCs
V 1.10.5d - Minor changes
I got in a couple more changes as some events were a bit too strong for my tastes! Have fun - Michele V 1.10.5d Bugfixes UI: Fixed Spring being listed as a Cold season in the Agepedia Localization fix
V 1.10.5c - Small fixes
Some minor fixes on issues that were reported, as I get back to work! Hope you had a great summer! - Michele V 1.10.5c Bugfixes UI: Search now supports spaces correctly Achievements: Fixed All Alone a
V 1.10.5b - Bugfixes
A couple of small fixes for some annoying bugs. Enjoy! Michele V 1.10.5b Bugfixes Fixed Pippins having weird hair when becoming adults until the game was reloaded Fixed Horse Hunters leather collectio
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Resource Management · Turn-Based · Rogue-lite · Board Game · Tabletop · Turn-Based Strategy · City Builder · Pixel Graphics · Colony Sim · Survival · Funny · Dark Humor (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Adjustable Text Size · Camera Comfort · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty |
| Languages | English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 122 |
| Official site | http://www.michelepirovano.com/dotage/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 64 bit Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 300 MB available space