The Dawn of Art

The Dawn of Art

Atlas V · February 24, 2020 · Free to Play, Adventure, Indie, VR, Dynamic Narration

The Dawn of Art is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About The Dawn of Art

Explore the Chauvet Cave 36,000 years ago, with Daisy Ridley’s voice as your guide. It’s in the Ardèche gorges, in the south of France, that our ancestors drew humanity’s first masterpieces, giving life to their beliefs. Maybe you will also meet the cave bear…

The Dawn of Art — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

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

Not recommended Dec 6, 2024
"The Dawn of Art" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. This is yet another garbage virtual art gallery polluting Steam... and not to put too fine a point on it, we're here for PC games. This is not a game. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the computer rewards the player if they win, and then if the player survives, they repeat that loop. There's no loop here, no true interactive feedback. It simply is not a game, it cannot be "played". This has misleadingly been launched in the "Games" section of Steam instead of the "Software" section. This is a common mistake for developers…
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Recommended Jul 14, 2026
This is what VR was made for. Very cool, educational and something I would never get to do in real life. Recommended for all!
Recommended Apr 14, 2026
Nice little vr film about ancient civilizations and their cave paintings.
Recommended Sep 7, 2025
Well produced. Cool effects. But very short and lacking any kind of in game turning feature. Can't beat the price point though.
Recommended Aug 22, 2025
Very awesome! The film was so well done, it brought out some emotion.
Recommended Sep 15, 2024
Thank you for an extremely well done experience of this historic site and the art it contains. I found it very moving.

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