How many copies has Dawn of Man sold?

indielist estimates Dawn of Man has sold between 853,920 and 1,992,480 units (median 1,423,200), derived from its 17,790 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published Dawn of Man?

Dawn of Man was published by Madruga Works, developed by Madruga Works. See Madruga Works's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

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 17,790 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.

Is Dawn of Man worth playing?

Steam players rate Dawn of Man 87% positive across 17,790 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Dawn of Man

Mar 1, 2019 Indie $24.99

Developer Madruga Works Publisher Madruga Works

Profile updated May 2026

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.

Dawn of Man is a 2019 Indie game developed by Madruga Works and published by Madruga Works. On Steam it has gathered 17,790 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 854,000 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

17,790

Positive

87%

Steam appid

858810

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

440

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 19:20 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

854K to 2.0M

units (median: 1.4M)

≈ $12.2M to $28.4M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

854K median 2.0M

+ How is this calculated?

17,790 reviews × NB(80) = 1,423,200 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2019	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_87%	+10
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Dawn of Man at roughly 854,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.4 million, derived from its 17,790 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $20.3M 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

54 observed days · window low $12.49

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $12.49 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $12.49 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Dawn of Man sold?: indielist estimates Dawn of Man has sold between 853,920 and 1,992,480 units (median 1,423,200), derived from its 17,790 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published Dawn of Man?: Dawn of Man was published by Madruga Works, developed by Madruga Works. See Madruga Works's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
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 17,790 Steam reviews, of which 87% are positive.
Is Dawn of Man worth playing?: Steam players rate Dawn of Man 87% positive across 17,790 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Dawn of Man can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Banished, Foundation, IXION, Planetbase, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.