Dawn of Man
Worth it · Strategy · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$24.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$12.4950% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.38/hr
- Reviews▼
- 87% of 17,921
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $12.49 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 18.1h
- To 100%
- 98.2h 5.4x the story
- Achievements
- 24
Price and sales
- Sales
- 78 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $8.74 November 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 274 now
- Cheaper than
- 5% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 91% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
100% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 78 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 12 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Empires of the Undergrowth ($29.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Planetbase ($14.99, scores 49).
More about Dawn of Man
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 553 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 18.1 hours. Doing everything runs 98, 5.4 times as long.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 12 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Amazing game. I have played it so many times. The balancing of resources is on point. It feels like you genuinely have to work to grow. I wish they were still working on it as the scope to grow it was immense, but I get they want to move on. I hope they come back to it. It is always nice when a smaller studio makes an amazing game, and someone who is big into city builders, this is one of the best ones.
2 more reviews
Wish there was more content, imagine all the known groups of prehistoric peoples in every continent and pre-continent pangea being playable. Shame it's a dead project now.
i wish there would be more updates to go deeper in that game, its really nice and calming, sadly the engeneers wont do anything anymore..
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM (Shader Model 3), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dawn of Man scores 75/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/858810/dawn-of-manReviews 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 Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.