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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?

dotAGE is a resource management, turn-based and rogue-lite game developed and published by Michele Pirovano.
Released on October 04th 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 9 languages: English, Italian, French, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Japanese and Russian.

It has received 2,285 reviews of which 2,185 were positive and 100 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 17.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 11.81€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified dotAGE into these genres:

Resource Management Turn-Based Rogue-lite Board Game Tabletop Turn-Based Strategy City Builder Pixel Graphics Colony Sim Survival Funny Dark Humor Building Difficult Cute Rogue-like 2D Choices Matter Medieval Simulation

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: 64 bit
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 300 MB available space

MacOS

Processor: 64 bit
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 300 MB available space

Linux

Processor: 64 bit
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Storage: 300 MB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

What starts off as a cute turn-based village simulator soon ramps into mounting chaos and impending doom. The villagers, affectionately known as 'pips', have the curiosity of a cat and the survival instincts of a lemming. As the village elder, your avatar ambles around the map, cursing and berating the idiots around you as you try to prevent annihilation from malicious divine forces. I really enjoy the subtle complexities of dotAGE. There are interlacing production chains for resources and truly staggering amount of game events - both positive and negative - which impact the world state and your pips. This can be as simple as Pips stealing extra firewood from your reserves to keep warm in winter, or as complex as a malicious divine event inflicting bleeding on 50% of your population and an earthquake just levelled the bandage station, so now half the village is going to die in 5 turns, unleashing a wave of sickness and fear. The malicious divines toying with you are the Domains of Fear, Sickness, Hot/Cold & Nature. Each run randomises their strength and event order, keeping things interesting. Your pips generate - when correctly directed by you - Hope, Health, Temperature and Harmony to counter the divine threats. The problem - and main gameplay mechanic of dotAGE - is you have limited pips to counter these threats whilst also trying to feed, research and build the village. There are also different Elder leaders which add a twist to the playthrough, for example the Shaman increases nature gains, but increases fear when animals die, whereas the Captain is landlocked on a tiny island and has a fish and grog based economy. Your starting map also changes each game, and there is a slow burning meta-progression unlock system which keeps on adding cool new features to both the maps and your available technologies. It took me about 110hrs to fully unlock the meta progression tree and I still have not seen every game event. Negatives of dotAGE: The game is very long, about 12-15 hours per run. The game is rather difficult, I lost my first two runs on normal before I got the hang of reading the prophecy correctly. Sometimes, the game can be very unfair. Finally, the soundtrack is only 6 tracks at 21 mins total, this can start to wear thin and I really hope they expand the OST in the upcoming DLC. Overall this is a wonderful strategy game, it's as if the creators of Rimworld and Stardew Valley decided to make a turn-based title together.

March 2025

This game is a 10/10 for me. If you want to play a cute pixel-art city builder and vibe with great music, this game is for you. If you're a resource management worker placement board game nerd, this is the game for you. If you want to ramp the difficulty have an insanely challenging survival game that makes you plan every turn meticulously, this is the game for you. This game is for you.

Feb. 2025

One of my new favourite games ever - combines the one more turn feeling of Civ, the colony management of Rimworld, and roguelike randomness and goals of Against the Storm. Brilliant game that I can lose many hours in without noticing the time. Created by a solo dev who is highly engaged with the players on discord.

Dec. 2024

as an avowed city builder player, i genuinely believe this is one of the greatest games i've ever played. the fundamentally simple gameplay loop, graduated complexity, thoughtful mechanics, satisfying synergies, and tangible love from the developer all come together to create something that stands out like a north star in its genre. i also really like the considered way that the game's mechanics are revealed to you gradually across runs, rather than just dropping you into the deep end immediately. the complexity ceiling on this game is somewhat high, but it is drip-fed to you across time and you are in control of which new mechanics are unlocked and when, so you're never forced out of your depth. this is a game about micromanagement; the mechanics also strongly incentivize a high pip population. the logical conclusion here is that optimal play rapidly becomes very, very micro-intensive. there is some appeal to this but at a certain point some of it does feel tedious. the developer has done a good job addressing this so far, for example through UI changes or the ability to hasten the endgame, but it's not all the way there yet in my opinion. this really stands out in the pip assignment process. it would be really nice if there was a button to prioritize the production of a resource (or multiple?), shuffling around your pips optimally. i don't claim this change would be simple but i think it would improve the fluency of the game a lot. overall though this game rules and i can't recommend it enough. i was an early player and it has pleased me so much to see how much love it's gotten, and i'm really happy to see the developer continuing to give it love via the just-announced DLC. looking forward to supporting him again.

July 2024

Game is great but freezes constantly on the "work" screen. Looked up the issue and its been happening for 10+months. No fixes yet seems wild and cant find a workaround. Happens constantly even after reloading and losing the day. Really irritating as the game is fun. Hope they figure this out eventually but seeing as its been happening since launch I wont get my hopes up. Edit: My issue was not fixed yet as I just posted this, but the fact that the Dev reached out almost immediately asking for details and wanting to help to fix the issue was awesome. The game really is great and with someone who cares that much im sure it will be successful and im sure my bug will be fixed. Thanks Catman!

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