The Ghost and the Golem overview

Overview

The Ghost and the Golem comes from Choice of Games and is published by Choice of Games. It arrived on Steam on Aug 8, 2024, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Ghost and the Golem's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 10:01:14 UTC, with a tracked peak near 10. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 95% positive across 21 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Ghost and the Golem is available in 1 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Ghost and the Golem has no public VGI unit-sales estimate available and has recommendation data pending. Revenue data is not available for this game yet. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Ghost and the Golem overview details

The Ghost and the Golem combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Can your magic amulet save your Jewish village from destruction? Uncover the truth and forge alliances with soldiers, peasants, bandits, anarchists, and demons! The Ghost and the Golem is an interactive historical fantasy novel by Benjamin Rosenbaum. It's entirely text-based, 450,000 words and hundreds of choices, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Nebula Award Finalist for Best Game Writing in the 60th Annual Nebula Awards! The year is 1881. Life in your village on the border of Poland and Ukraine is sweet as raisin pastries and bitter as horseradish. Matchmakers arrange marriages and klezmer musicians play at the weddings; friends reconcile after feuds and gossip about their neighbors; people pray in the little synagogue and study holy texts. But it is a tense time in the Russian empire, with antisemitic riots spreading across the land. And inside your pocket is a magic amulet, revealing visions of the future, omens of your village in flames. When you hold it, you can see the blood and the bodies, smell the gunshots, and hear the marching songs. (Is that Russian? Or Ukrainian? You hear shouting in Polish.) How could this future come to pass, and how will you stop it? You'll need allies. Can you sway the local Christian peasants or the Czarist garrison to protect your village from harm? What about the bandits and anarchists lurking in the wild forest? When a demonic sheyd offers you a bargain, what will you do to save the ones you love? Or, there may be another answer. One of your closest friends has bu…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Ghost and the Golem is listed as a game with $7.99. It supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure, Casual, Indie, and RPG. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 10:01:14 UTC, a tracked peak of 10, and 95% positive reviews.

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