Jon Shafer's At the Gates
Skip · Strategy · 2019
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 0, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Length
- 18h
- Value
- $1.67/hr
- Reviews
- 41% of 499 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 2113 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, X1950 Pro, 7900 GT, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 6 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 22 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 302 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. Egypt: Old Kingdom ($14.99, scores 60) outscores it, and so does Predynastic Egypt ($9.99, scores 77). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Jon Shafer's At the Gates
63 on Metacritic, 41 percent from players. A gap this way round is usually launch damage or a slow decline.
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 08:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Don't buy, it's buggy, broken and dead Many game mechanics that show a lot of potential that are unfinished placeholder tags present and unchanged for 3 years no contact from the developer for three years If John comes back and finishes it I will rewrite but at the moment it is abandoned
2 more reviews, 2 not recommended
Abandoned game with "TO DO" and "PLACEHOLDER" stuff scattered here and there about it. Very sad.
I love this game. For me it's on the Top 10 games released in the last 5 years list. That's why it pains me so much to write this review. 23 Jan, 2019 - Jon released what can be only described as an Public Alpha. For the price of complete game. It was practically unplayable, nonexistent AI, nonexistent diplomacy, absolutely unbalanced. But because I've loved this game so much, I've decided to be patient and wait for...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Jon Shafer's At the Gates scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/241000/jon-shafer-s-at-the-gatesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.