Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension
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An indie game from Illwinter Game Design, Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension launched in 2013 with self-publishing by the same studio. It has 1,124 Steam reviews at 91% positive, with an initial price of $34.99.
Overview
Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension is a 2013 Indie game developed by Illwinter Game Design and published by Illwinter Game Design. On Steam it has gathered 1,124 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $35. The pairing of developer Illwinter Game Design with publisher Illwinter Game Design 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 71,000 to 165,000 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, Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
1,124
Positive
91%
Steam appid
259060
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.071K to 165K
units (median: 118K)
≈ $1.4M to $3.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2013 | +30 |
| price_$35 | +15 |
| positive_91% | +10 |
| final NB | 105 |
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 Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension at roughly 71,000 to 165,000 copies, with a median around 118,000, derived from its 1,124 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.4M 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
1 observed day · window low $8.74Across 1 observed UTC day from 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-03, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.74 to $8.74. The tracked-window low was $8.74 on 2026-09-03.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Humble Store
- GOG.com
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
IndieStrategy
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension sold?
- indielist estimates Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension has sold between 70,812 and 165,228 units (median 118,020), derived from its 1,124 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension?
- Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension was developed by Illwinter Game Design and published by Illwinter Game Design.
- Who published Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension?
- Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension was published by Illwinter Game Design, developed by Illwinter Game Design. See Illwinter Game Design's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension released?
- Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension was released in 2013.
- How many reviews does Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension have on Steam?
- Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension has 1,124 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
- Is Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension worth playing?
- Steam players rate Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension 91% positive across 1,124 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.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Stardew Valley, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Project Zomboid, Undertale, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Illwinter Game Design's other releases and Illwinter Game Design's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension 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 Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension 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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