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El Dorado: The Golden City Builder
Developer Hobo Bunch, Gameparic
El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches. From the Steam store page
120 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Oct 26, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
50
Mixed
21 positive · 21 negative
95% range 36–64%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 24 | 0 | 51 |
| Steam reviews | 21 | 21 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
25 of 48 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
At a glance
El Dorado: The Golden City Builder is a 2024 indie simulation strategy video game, from Hobo Bunch and Gameparic.
- 114 people have posted about this game on Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon
- posts span Jul 29, 2023 to Oct 25, 2026
- 50% of 42 Steam reviewers recommend it (their own thumbs)
- Steam reviewers had played a median of 3 h when they wrote
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El Dorado: The Golden City Builder sits at 50% positive across 42 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Reactions
60 of 120 · most liked firstFun Premise… Questionable Everything Else Four-Minute Video Review: https://youtu.be/6DdIwgUibMM Alien colonies, historical recreations, space bases, military camps, crime tycoons—if I’ve covered one thing on my channel, it’s simulators. City building simulators, in particular. It’s been a genre near and dear to my cold little heart since SimCity 3000, and I’m so happy to see that the genre is still finding ways to improve 25 years later. But, for every Against the Storm or Manor…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a game i want remade, or at least translated: El Dorado Gate a capcom RPG in 7 parts for the dreamcast with character designs by Amano (will continue to content myself with reading this lovely writeup by @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com) kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/eldorado-gat...
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't recommend the game in its current form. There is a critical known bug that prevents players to finish the game/campaign. This is a long standing issue and the devs can't be bothered to fix it. The game received one update 5 months ago.Silence ever since-except for asking a vote for game of the year award...LOL
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why did the Aztec owl not know what the other two owls were saying to each other? They were Inca hoots. 📝 Main Pros, Cons, and Suggestions: 🟩 Pros: + I loved that RMB brought up a quick access menu for constantly used actions + Building shrines to appease the gods and protect from disaster suits the Ancient theme + Unique calendar mechanic with different Gods and Omens, either to your benefit or detriment 🟥 Cons: - Bugs (some game breaking) - Poor visibility due to tree tops -…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a few more: Sea Salt & Paper, Castle Combo, Ready Set Bet, Splendor, Survive, Mysterium, Whitehall Mystery (fun 1 vs. all hidden movement game), Rebirth, Mille Fiori, Whale Riders, Creature Caravan, Forest Shuffle, The Quest for El Dorado, Pan Am, Wandering Towers
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m playing my second game of Quest for El Dorado, and I’m in love. It’s so clearly a deck builder designed by someone with the same issues with the genre that I have.
positive · AI labelView post →The Dog Island. This 2007 RPG/adventure was developed in Japan and all dogs in the game were given Italian names. When they published it in the West, Ubisoft de-italianized some of the names (like Edoardo becoming El Dorado). So, this Japanese game was... uh too Italian for the West. Woof.
neutral · AI labelView post →I wanted to like this game, but it's clunky and poorly designed. There's limited area to build on the map and it seems like the devs have abandoned the project completely.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a problem in Act 6 . I played that map 6 times, and every time the same thing I could not do the task. So I went to Discord and listed my dilemma in the bug report. But no response from the Dev's. Since I can't finish Act 6 it is game over for the rest. So I've tried again, and yet again the same thing I can not buy from a visitor because he has nothing to sell. I thought I'll try sandbox then but all the maps I looked at where not a pleasure to play. Looks like I wasted my money on this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Concise Game Reviews: "El Dorado: The Golden City Builder" (Scroll down for the longer version) Game Value: ✅ recommended for fans of city-building and exploration, combining the strategic depth of SimCity with the resource management of Banished. Game Tags: ✔Strategy ✔Simulation ✔City Building ✔Resource Management ✔Exploration ✔Management ✔Historical ✔Open World ✔Colonization ✔Economic Genre Classification: A city-building simulation game set in the age of exploration, focusing on…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i cant complete the tutorial because the the resources in the little island i got ran out, thats cute
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A few months back when me and some others rewatched The Road To El Dorado, I learned that the guy who Miguel and Tulio got the map from in a dice game by cheating is voiced by none other than Jigsaw himself, Tobin Bell. Make of that what you will.
neutral · AI labelView post →Almost a good game, but definitely needed more polishing before release. It can be fun and interesting, but it lacks full depth and the mechanics are not intuitive. What I did like is that it feels like something a little unique in the genre, balancing the favor of the various gods had a lot of potential to be fun. However, it needed to go beyond just building a bunch of shrines everywhere. A couple of key complaints that I've seen in other reviews and agree with: Sandbox map generation is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty solid lighter game night with The Quest for El Dorado, Port Royal, and SCOUT getting played.
positive · AI labelView post →Lilo and Stitch: 2002. The Incredibles: 2004. The Road to El Dorado: 2000. The MeToo movement and GamerGate were in like, the early 2010s. Your timeline here doesn't work. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess most of these movies are older than you are.
neutral · AI labelView post →I bought the game because I saw it on the Raptor stream, it looks very interesting. After playing the game for few minutes, it seems that the game's god mechanics, the appearance of the cities, and the brutality of the Mayan culture that's reflected in the game make this game very appealing to players that like to build cities. I will try to update my review as I play more!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →POSITIVE POINTS: - Inca culture has not been dealt with much in video games. - The game features a god system that provides dynamic goals. For example, you have to build shrines to appease the gods and protect yourself from disasters. - The game offers a campaign mode with 10 unique acts to play and a sandbox mode unlocked from the start. NEGATIVE POINTS: - The camera controls are a bit clunky. - The uneven terrain is very annoying, because we can't build on it. - It has some game-breaking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The video game series “El Dorado Gate” is being translated: seven discs (originally there were going to be more) that were released every two months for Dreamcast before the console lost popularity and this idea was abandoned.
neutral · AI labelView post →We also got in a game of Quest for El Dorado. I didn't do well but enjoyed the game as a whole. #boardgamesky #boardgames
positive · AI labelView post →Amazingly The Quest for El Dorado - not a game I've ever played - is now the top ranked Reiner Knizia game on BGG
neutral · AI labelView post →Some after school El Dorado with my son and his grandmother. This game is such an easy teach to all ages but retains a lot of fun deck building depth. #boardgames
positive · AI labelView post →I've played a lot of city builders and this one is basic. That being said, the best city builders now started from somewhere. If ever El Dorado 2 comes out, hopefully its a lot better than this. Middling thumbs up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the one game of civ where I spawned 15 tiles from Atilla and between us was El Dorado
neutral · AI labelView post →Lost in Time... - Today is August 8th, a very special day for K. Rool and his fans! And just like he seemed like a lost cause before Smash Ultimate, so was his chase for El Dorado in Diddy Kong Pilot, a game that never came to be, but still gave him a unique look! #DonkeyKong #KingKRool #Nintendo
neutral · AI labelView post →Choose 20 games you haven't played but want to. One game a day for 20 days, in no order. No explanation, no review, just a cover. Day 5: El Dorado Gate (Dreamcast)
neutral · AI labelView post →I really wanted to like this game and have had it on my wishlist for quite sometime. At the end of the day, there is much to be desired. I thought this would be a game where you would eventually work your way up to build the city of gold but yet there is no gold to be found really. Sure, some of the buildings have gold accents but I wanted to build entirely out of gold like the legend of El Dorado (um hello, read the game title)...fail. Such a missed opportunity to turn an "eh" game into a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This weekend at #boardgames night we played the brilliant deckbuilding race game The Quest for El Dorado with the Hexes and Heroes expansion. Then we played it straight away again!
positive · AI labelView post →After playing our third game of Pandemic Legacy Season 1, we played Orbit. Felt a little too chaotic for me. If I were to play another Knizia racing game, I’d choose The Quest for El Dorado. Otherwise, I still find Flamme Rouge more fun. #boardgamesky
positive · AI labelView post →WARNING: GAME DESIGN NERDERY AHEAD! 1) Recently I saw someone extolling the common board game mechanism of deckbuilding. I enjoy deckbuilders – Clank! Catacombs and Quest for El Dorado are two of my favorites, and I’m always down for Dominion, Lost Ruins of Arnak, and similar games.
positive · AI labelView post →I played the tutorial for less than 20 minutes. There were missing instructions I needed to check the forums to figure out for basic resources. Then it told me the resource buildings were not connected by roads despite building multiple roads to the building trying to get it to work. Again, during the initial tutorial.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nope. I got this game when it was in Early Access. It was a turd. Loaded it up today April 11th, 2025 and it's still a turd. I went for sandbox because I wasn't sure if the campaign was fixed. Turns out sandbox isn't even playable. Spawn was too far from water. There wasn't a button to build farms to unlock more tech. Just random baskets floating around on the roads. Don't waste your money on this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Chapter 9 of the game is bugged. This bug prevents players from finishing the campaign. Additionally, upgrading common houses is impossible because holy chocolate cannot be crafted anywhere.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the game, but if I could ask the developers to listen to the downsides I encountered, maybe you can improve something in future updates of the game. - Uneven terrain is very annoying. If I understand correctly, this is what platforms are for, but when you generate random maps in the beginning, there is just too much of it. - I'm not sure if there's a way to do this, but at one point I was filling up the warehouse and couldn't find a way to empty it other than removing a lot of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would not recommend to pay full price for this game or pay at all. The game is full of bugs and game developers could not be bother to fix it. Back ground music and sound of drums are not very pleasant at all I go to sleep and all I hear in my head is boom boom boom
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well I usually watch all Habs game to the end. Tonight I just poured a nice glass of 25 year old El Dorado rum, going to the shed to enjoy it with a cigar. Salut everyone Hopefully we compete better in the next game
neutral · AI labelView post →On my way to #UKGE with a note on my phone reading... Hegemony Rebirth Arkham Horror the Card Game Huang Black Forest Quest for El Dorado? Crokinole Something to do with Dune. #boardgames
neutral · AI labelView post →This playfield layout was used in a bunch of other Gottlieb games, including the EMs Target Alpha and Canada Dry, the 1984 solid state game El Dorado City of Gold and others. As seen at the Pintastic New England show in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Continued…
neutral · AI labelView post →Monthly weekend game day: plays of Incan Gold, John Company, and El Dorado. John Company is such a cool game, even when you are playing with people for the first time and you are teaching it, it just flows smoothly.
positive · AI labelView post →There's probably no game in our canon with as tumultuous a history as Banjo-Pilot. From the Super Mario cast, Redneck Kong, and K. Rool hunting for El Dorado in Diddy Kong Pilot to the heartbreak of the voxel build of Banjo-Pilot, the stories behind this game could fill a book!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Quest for El Dorado I really like the mixture of deck building and the more old-school "move a guy to the finish line" type gameplay. Makes it one of the more accessible deck builders too, with various map configs to adjust the difficulty.
positive · AI labelView post →You know, in the future? I think I'd like to do either a) a two-player horror/mystery game (because, hey, the Mulder/Scully dynamic is always fun) or b) a two-player comedy game where the PCs are partners in crime. See, famously, Road to El Dorado.
neutral · AI labelView post →Quest for El Dorado is such a great game, it makes me sad that the English distribution is so confusing. I can barely keep up with its status in the US, I'm not sure how it is in the UK.
positive · AI labelView post →On Sunday, I played Tavern of Tiefenthal with all modules from the base game and expansion module A. So fun, even with 4 Players. Played The Quest for El Dorado. The game is still fun even though it's a 2P game. Finally got my copy of Pergola too that day 😂 #boardgames
positive · AI labelView post →Indivisible El Dorado @indiv-eldorado.bsky.social absolutely crushing it with their overpass bannering game!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Quest for El Dorado - It’s been years, but today’s play reminded me how enjoyable it is. For a very short game, it’s quite a bit fun trying to maneuvering around the terrain with the right cards assembled through deck building. Going forward this will be a 2p game for us. #BoardGames
positive · AI labelView post →A great #boardgame afternoon/evening with my little chipmunk ❤️ - Flick of Faith, a delightful dexterity game - The Legendary El Dorado - 5-Minute Mystery Then, my wife joined us for: - Sea Salt and Paper - Exploding Kittens
positive · AI labelView post →I'm beyond happy to share that El Dorado is now available to play in @counter-strike.net ! This has been an on and off passion project for the last 3 years so to finally see this in the game is a great feeling! Shoutout to @flowlee-art.bsky.social for the art support and Aleks for the murals.
neutral · AI labelView post →game is incomplete,can not finish the tutorial
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Quest for El Dorado (I’m Always Game) #imalwaysgame #boardgames #questforeldorado #tabletopgames #howtoplay
neutral · AI labelView post →When I first discovered board gaming I would buy all expansions at once, but now I only buy the base game and it's got to be a real keeper before I even look at the expansions. Our favorite family game is Quest for El Dorado and I'll never buy the expansions because the base is perfect.
positive · AI labelView post →I really wanted to love this game. The Mayan (not Incan, very different) theme is fantastic and unique. I played the game pre-release and purchased it after it came out. However, the "rough terrain" error when placing farm plots is game breaking and I've returned it since I couldn't progress any further through the tutorial. To be clear, I could't place plots anywhere on the map, even on previously occupied ground. Once that gets fixed and re-tuned, I would happily recommend the game. As…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy product. Cant even finish the act 1. Wont let me place down farm tiles.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very lazy game. I love the idea, and some of the concepts, but for 2024 it is missing some key features that would make this game enjoyable. The terrain issues are frustrating. No well designed maps for sandbox play, instead you have a a random generator that keeps popping out poorly designed maps that will not allow to expand your city. And to top it it all off, you do not decide where you will place your corner stone building. It's just lazy. Perfectly destroyed great concept.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →so I have only started playing, a few quality of life things that would be helpful are the tasks required. If you complete the task before it asks for it, it does not give you credit. For example, doing the 1st tutorial, I mined all the granite before it asked me to, and it would not move on from that specific task, which prevented advancing in the game. It will say build 3 houses, which I already did, but it wouldn't give me credit, which meant I destroyed and rebuilt. Small thing, but a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like challenging games and resource management, but here the economics were just very awkward for me. The uneven terrain was irritating, sometimes when I ran out of resources (usually fruit) I would get spam about the deities delivering basic resources, which did nothing and was also very irritating.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Spy (Ro)ad to El Dorado - Demon Femboy VTuber Plays the 239 Game Grandermizer (Part 76) twitch.tv/OnekoTyago youtube.com/@OnekoTyago #VTuber | #ENVTuber | #TyaLive | #VSky | #Randomizer | #Archipelago |
neutral · AI labelView post →And we finished today's challenge with The Quest for El Dorado! One of my least favourite Knizia games, but conversely it's one of the only deck builders I actually enjoy. Always a good time. Honestly this is how I should spend every Thanksgiving, just playing the games of the master.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yay! #Jeopardy had a board game category! Oh... four of the answers were about Candyland, Risk, Monopoly, Connect 4. 🙄 The only decent game in the bunch: The Quest for El Dorado. #BoardGames
positive · AI labelView post →Im making a movie based off the PS1 adaptation of "Road To El Dorado". Yes it will be Queer coded No it will not be the same coding as the movie the game is based off of. No further questions.
neutral · AI labelView post →But I'm specifically thinking of stuff like Shining Force 3, which was a three-part release where stuff you do in the first game ripples through to the third. Or El Dorado Gate, Capcom's gorgeous seven part rpg with Yoshitaka Amano art
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