Developer of 'Overwhelmingly Positive' Steam city-builder hopes for Metacritic representation: "Players love it, streamers love it, sales are great"

DotAGE trailer
(Image credit: Michele Pirovano)

One indie developer is clamouring to get recognitio🍌n on review aggregatꦏe sites like Metacritic because their roguelike city-builder is beloved by pretty much everyone. 

DotAGE is the "merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder" where you, as the appointed village elder, need to guide townsfolk to do your settlement construction, foraging, and usual chores right in the middle of an ongoing apocalypse. The looming threat will take on a new form each time, ranging from rampant diseases and natural disasters to hordes of kittens - the horror! 

user rℱeviews, but it's still been ignored from major review aggregate sites.

"Ok. Players love it, streamers love it, sales are great," solo developer Michele Pirovano recently tweeted, alongside images of the game's glowing user reviews, viral YouTube Let's Plays, and money-making ♈stats. "Only... c🤡an I get my Metacritic score now thank you very much."

DotAGE currently has two reviews displayed on its , and per the site's requirements, game's need at least four scored reviews before they can get an aggregate score.𒁏 Some sites that have reviewed and scored the game might also not be on Metacritic's list of approved sites, but maybe there should be a better way to gauge 🐼common sentiment. 

Either way, it doesn't make much difference to the people playing and enjoying the game right now. According to the stats above, dotAGE is in the top six percent of lifetime units sold and it's frequently updated. After 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:nine years in development, Pirovano's hard worked seems to have paid off.

DotAGE’s developer thought “it will maybe sell some 100 copies” - 20,000 copies later, it’s one of the biggest surprise hits of the year.

Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Pape💯r Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. Also has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.