Dawn of Man

Dawn of Man

Madruga Works · 2019 · City Builder, Colony Sim, Survival, Strategy, Simulation

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About Dawn of Man

✦ AI summary

Guide humanity from the Stone Age through the Iron Age, managing survival, expansion, and technological evolution across 10,000 years of prehistory. Hunt ancient megafauna, gather resources, brave seasonal challenges, and construct megalithic structures as you develop your settlement from nomadic hunters into an organized civilization.

Take control of a settlement of the first modern humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival.

Dawn of Man is a survival/city-builder from the creators of Planetbase.

The game starts in the Stone Age, and takes you up to the Iron Age, spanning more than 10,000 years of human prehistory.

You will have to get your people to survive, expand and evolve, just like our ancestors, facing the challenges that the environment will throw at you.

Hunt

Animals were a vital source of food and resources for ancient humans. Use their meat to feed your people and their skin and bones to make clothing and craft the tools you will need to stay alive.
Confront Mammoths, Woolly Rhinos, Ancient Bison, Megaloceros, Cave Lions and other species that roamed the earth at the time.

Gather

Collect a variety resources from the environment: fruit, berries, water, wood, flint, stone, ores. Use them to prepare food, to make tools and to build structures in your settlement.

Plan for harsh times

Fish is more abundant in spring, berries and fruit can be collected in summer and animals are easier to come by when it's warm.
When winter comes, make sure to have enough non-perishable food and warm clothing in order to survive.

Expand and fortify your settlement

Build more homes and facilities for your people, in order to expand your population.
Construct fortifications and craft weapons, so you are ready for when the inevitable conflict comes.

Research Technologies

Each new discovery will make it easier for your settlement to be able to support larger populations, but will also bring new challenges: increased food demand, morale issues and more frequent raider attacks.

Build Megalithic Structures

Our ancestors were capable of incredible engineering feats: mine massive rocks from the environment, transport them using sledges and construct colossal stone structures.

Control Nature

Unlock farming technologies to grow your own vegetables, so you can feed large amounts of people. Domesticate animals to produce food, resources and provide increased muscle power.

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Jul 13, 2026
Cool game with good settlement development mechanics. But it is really boring. Progression is kinda slow, tech tree is small, but requires grind. Grind to trade, grind for research points. And now looks like devs have abandoned it for new game (almsot copied from Surviving Mars), so there are no QoL updates, no content updates, and the game is still slow, boring, scarce on content. But anyway, it is almost the best experience I had with such "civilization development game". It`s a pity devs didnt make more content in here. Also I didnt find any cool mods to extend the expeirence, the tech tree. So, its your call to buy it
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Not recommended Jul 9, 2026
If the computer deems that it is time for you to lose citizens you will lose them. Whether it be a raider party that seems to spawn just a little too close than normal, smoking all your plants with a disease at harvest, seemingly randomly increasing food intake of citizen which drain your resources faster than it should, having your livestock get wiped from disease. It doesn't matter if you have redundancies set up to avoid such pitfalls. It doesn't matter if you scale your settlement at a slow pace. It will "find a way". It's comparative to "rubber banding" in racing games. Cheap.
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Recommended Jul 17, 2026
i cant find any other game like this, sad devs dropped the game
Recommended Jul 13, 2026
After installing and playing for nearly 3 hours I can honestly say I am thoroughly impressed. The initial tutorial really helps people to understand the games basic concepts. The UI is very easy to understand and the interface overlay is relatively simple yet informative. I'm not used to these types of games so there was an initial learning curve but after realizing what I was doing, admittingly it was more my fault than anything. I'm honestly excited to continue playing more!
Recommended Jul 8, 2026
just perfect!
Recommended Jul 8, 2026
Awesome Game!!!! Well worth the money, re-playablity, strategy, city building is all a 5/5 in my books, amongst many other thing LOL

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