Dawn of Man has only 3 free play scenarios that are Continental Dawn, The Northlands, and Ancient Warriors. There are also 4 quick challenges called The Long March, Temple of the Sun, The Shepherds, and Before Dawn. What’s next after you complete all of them? Custom scenarios of course! Welcome to the list and ranking of custom-made best Dawn of Man scenarios of all times.
The custom scenario mods below are available on either Steam workshop or Nexus mods. They are indeed scenario mods, but you don’t need a mod-manager whatsoever. All you have to do is to download, copy, and paste scenario folders to the Dawn of Man scenarios folder in your documents and voila.
Scenarios will be available in the community tab of new game screen.
Without further ado, let’s jump right into it:
1. Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve is one of the most popular Dawn of Man scenarios and also my personal favorite. In this scenario, you play as Adam and Eve!
You start the game with 2 people, one male and one female. The goal is to create a huge settlement starting from scratch.
It’s going to be very challenging at the start, but you’ll get there via births and migration.
Can also turn-off the migration but that’ll be the most hardcore Dawn of Man experience ever.
To turn-off the migration, just go to your documents, dawn of man folder, go to scenario folder and find .xml. Then edit it with notepad, set migration parameters to zero, or maybe to one person a year.
2. Serengeti
Serengeti is a geographical region in Africa. It’s a protected area and a national park. What makes Serengeti unique is its large animal population. In fact, Serengeti is the place with the largest animal population in the world.
And this mod simply takes you to Serengeti. Animal population increased and wild animals does not go extinct.
There is just one issue though. Your computer might have a problem with running a very crowded scenario like this. Unless you have a high-end PC, don’t even bother trying Serengeti scenario.
3. Flatlands
Flatlands scenario introducing a new map with 10 locations, all with a lot of flat land to settle and with abundant resources.
Animals also does not go extinct. Which is one of my favorite features in any scenario. It’s actually the most popular one among the Dawn of Man maps.
Of course this is relatively an easy scenario to play. But that’s what I like to most! Settling and growing population to unimaginable numbers. If you feel the same, give it a shot.
4. No Population Limit
Growing large populations is a big problem in vanilla Dawn of Man scenarios. Because both birthrates and migration rates drop once you reach certain populations like 100, 200, and 250.
This mod simply removes the birth and migration decline rates and actually increases the migration a bit so that you can grow your population much faster.
All in all, soft population limit is removed in this mod for 3 vanilla scenarios. Nothing else is edited except for animal extinctions which is removed completely.
5. Exile
There you go, here is another difficult mod similar to Adam and Eve. Though this one is much harder because instead of two, you start with only one population.
It’s featuring the story of an exile sent into the wilderness alone. You have no house or any building. Just sent to exile with only a wooden spear and a flint knife. Nothing more…
It’s very hardcore in the first couple of seasons but after a while, it turns into a regular game thanks to the migrations.
6. Happy Farmer
Happy Farmer is the easiest Dawn of Man scenario ever. You start as a happy farmer with many domesticated goats and dogs. Winters are also short, spring and autumn a little longer.
Here is the best part, animals don’t need a stable in winters to survive. Though they’re needed in the future for animal fertility.
What’s more, it’s set in a very flat map so that you can settle wide and strong.
7. Dawn of Women
Dawn of Man is the term and name of the game we play. But what about Dawn of Women?
This scenario allows you to build the kingdom of Amazons. It’s a fun game with many strong women and a few men for breeding purposes.
Look how the tables turned!
8. Everwinter
Everwinter is probably the hardest scenario in this game simply because winters in it lasts a half a year or even longer.
As if that is not enough, winters comes earlier than expected from time to time.
How can you survive in a scenario like that? Collect supplies plenty in spring and summer, and harvest in fall. Prepare for the winter for winter is coming. Can’t send people to hunting during a blizzard, wild animals eat your prey in winters. Gotta stockpile foods for harsh times.
9. Wolf Children
One of the most interesting scenarios of Dawn of Man is the Wolf Children I believe. It’s unique because you start with 9 children and try to make it through winter.
According to the scenario writing, your parents set out to hunt but never came back and now the wolves are closing in! Better be prepared for the winter and hurry growing up, otherwise…
Gotta collect nuts before winter to survive. First winter is the hardest part of this mod.
10. Iron Age Start
Let’s wrap this list up with a mod where you start in the Iron Age with all technologies unlocked.
All you have to do is to prepare quickly for the raiders because Iron Age raiders are definitely strong. Though you can kill raiders easily if you stop the game and manually divert your villagers to raiders when they are about to attack.
Dawn of man best mods list and community scenarios ranking come to and end. Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy these scenarios.
Also do let me know your favorite scenarios and what you think of this article. I’ll see you soon, take care.