Dotage

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You are the Elder. You had a vision of a doomed future, so you took a handful of Pips, your fellow villagers, and led them to an empty valley to start anew.

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Developer:
Michele Pirovano
Release date:
04 October 2023
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (11)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (1821)

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Description

You are the Elder. You had a vision of a doomed future, so you took a handful of Pips, your fellow villagers, and led them to an empty valley to start anew. They need your guidance to survive the events foretold by the Prophecy, so make sure your Pips work hard!


DotAGE has deep worker placement mechanics inspired by board games.
Build your village and assign your workers to their daily tasks, grow crops, herd animals, bury corpses, forge tools, upgrade buildings, train professionals, and produce dozens of resources.
Take your time and think carefully before passing the turn!


The memories of the Elder are unclear, so each run will be different, with new buildings to discover. Play with more than 200 buildings, 30 professions, and 70 resources.
As you play, the memories of the Elder will come back, unlocking new game mechanics and content, such as new ailments, the mysterious VIPs, and new Elders!

Each turn, the Domains, the forces that govern the world, will unleash increasingly powerful events on your village.
From poison, to disease, to earthquakes, to kittens. Will you be able to survive them all and find out what is causing the apocalypse?


In addition to each run being different, the game has multiple difficulty levels, so pick the one that suits your playstyle.
Enjoy a relaxed turn-based town builder with its cozy graphics, or prove your mastery of the prophecy with the increasingly difficult mastery levels!


This game is a love letter to the games of my childhood, made with passion in 9 years in the little spare time I got by a single developer from Italy.
The music of the game is real medieval music, taken from the Montpellier Codex, rearranged by Luigi di Guida.
I hope you enjoy the world of Dotage!

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7
Processor:
64 bit
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Storage:
300 MB available space

recommended*

Storage:
300 MB available space

User reviews

Rawr
Recommended | 21 Mar 2026
17.4h played

It's good and cute and the complexity just keeps on increasing as you progress. It has such a unique combination of features from different genres, but they all fit perfectly into this masterpiece of a game. "One more

Helpful: 3
Honks for Hyenas
Recommended | 17 Apr 2026
23.5h played

Its a game that has two major hurdles, figuring out what it expects of you, then discovering the aspects that make the game have an enduring difficulty since the first playthrough plays with easy numbers. Talking too

Helpful: 4
freyventus
Recommended | 26 Mar 2026
207h played

dotAGE is a stressful and addictive. You started the game, blinked then 3 hours passed. I learnt to set a 30 minutes alarm to keep track of time. Yet here I am coming back for more. This is not a casual game. From the

Helpful: 3
Morbius
Not recommended | 28 Mar 2026
1.4h played

Feels like a puzzle game. It's a fine line: resource management vs puzzle game. The former leaves more room for individual strategies and approaches; the latter means you gotta figure out the correct way to do stuff and

Helpful: 8
Giraffasaur
Recommended | 22 Apr 2026
49.4h played

Pleasant pixelated puzzle-solver in the form of a turn-based colony-builder with roguelite elements. The point of the game is that it is a CHALLENGE; runs will be different and complicated in unique ways every time you

Helpful: 2
ViridianLoom
Recommended | 28 Mar 2026
36.8h played

Apparently, I haven't posted a review for this game yet? I came across dotAGE because of the collaboration they did with Against the Storm, another great game, and I was pleasantly surprised at how great this one is. It

Helpful: 2