The Rise of the Golden Idol overview

Overview

The Rise of the Golden Idol comes from Color Gray Games and is published by Playstack. It arrived on Steam on Nov 12, 2024, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, Steam, Xbox, and PlayStation so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

The Rise of the Golden Idol's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 80 players at 6 October 2026 - 21:25:42 UTC, with a tracked peak near 2,707. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 93% positive across 4,099 reviews.

Language and system requirements

The Rise of the Golden Idol is available in 12 languages including:

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

Sales, recommendations, and streams

The Rise of the Golden Idol has sold up to 103,402 units and has 3,800 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $1,533,198. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

The Rise of the Golden Idol overview details

The Rise of the Golden Idol combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The Idol was lost — but not forgotten. In this followup to the award winning detective game The Case of the Golden Idol, you are an observer that must investigate 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity - all somehow connected. Use your detective skills to make sense of a grand mystery that unfolds across an age of hallucinogens, disco, fax machines and parapsychology. 200 YEARS LATER… THE IDOL RISES Two hundred years after the unspeakable fate of the Cloudsley family, the Idol's legend lives on only in whispers and myth… but some are determined for this to change. Discover the mysterious forces connecting a tenacious treasure hunter, a team of scientists, the members of an enlightenment-seeking cult and corporate profiteers drawn to the all-powerful artifact. FEATURES LEAD YOUR OWN INVESTIGATION The Rise of the Golden Idol is a new type of detective game where you freely explore each crime scene at your own pace, using logic to build your own theories. Click to collect clues and analyze each discovery to determine what happened, why, and who was responsible. A CURIOUS CAST OF CHARACTERS Convicted prisoners, new age cult leaders, corporate middle management and many more figures have a role to play in the wider mystery that unfolds — each driven by their own agenda. Scour each scene for key details to put names to faces and deduce their motives. A NEW APPROACH TO SOLVING CRIMES A reworked interface lets you quickly gather key terms from observations and witness testimonies, greatly expanding the depth and variety of each scenario. Upon the conclusion of each ch…

SteamPulse editorial summary

The Rise of the Golden Idol is listed as a game with $19.99. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Adventure and Indie. SteamPulse's latest observation records 80 players at 6 October 2026 - 21:25:42 UTC, a tracked peak of 2,707, and 93% positive reviews.

Overview tags

MysteryInvestigationDetectiveConspiracyAdventure2DPuzzleAtmosphericChoices MatterCrimeDarkExplorationHistoricalInteractive FictionNarrative

Content descriptors

The game features freeze-frame depictions of murder crime scenes rendered in a 2D art style. There are visual or text references to alcohol and tobacco use.

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Support and legal notes

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