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Dawn of Man is an indie simulation strategy game released in 2019. It has garnered 16,953 reviews on Steam. The developer and publisher attribution are not yet imported.
Overview
Dawn of Man is a 2019 Indie game developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works. On Steam it has gathered 17,719 player reviews, 87% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Madruga Works with publisher Madruga Works is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 851,000 to 2.0 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Dawn of Man can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
17,719
Positive
87%
Steam appid
858810
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0851K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.4M)
≈ $12.1M to $28.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dawn of Man at roughly 851,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 17,719 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $20.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $14.02Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $14.02 to $24.99, averaging $22.41 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $14.02 on 2026-04-01.
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Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomyIndieChoices MatterRTSResource ManagementDestructionMultiplayerStory RichManagementNudityPolitical
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dawn of Man sold?
- indielist estimates Dawn of Man has sold between 850,512 and 1,984,528 units (median 1,417,520), derived from its 17,719 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dawn of Man?
- Dawn of Man was developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works.
- When was Dawn of Man released?
- Dawn of Man was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Dawn of Man have on Steam?
- Dawn of Man has 17,719 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dawn of Man sold?
- indielist estimates Dawn of Man has sold between 850,512 and 1,984,528 units (median 1,417,520), derived from its 17,719 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dawn of Man?
- Dawn of Man was developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works.
- When was Dawn of Man released?
- Dawn of Man was released in 2019.
- How many reviews does Dawn of Man have on Steam?
- Dawn of Man has 17,719 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Dawn of Man within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Madruga Works's other releases and Madruga Works's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dawn of Man sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Dawn of Man page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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