How many copies has The Case of the Golden Idol sold?

indielist estimates The Case of the Golden Idol has sold between 453,390 and 1,057,910 units (median 755,650), derived from its 10,795 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Case of the Golden Idol?

The Case of the Golden Idol was developed by Color Gray Games and published by Playstack.

Who published The Case of the Golden Idol?

The Case of the Golden Idol was published by Playstack, developed by Color Gray Games. See Playstack's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Case of the Golden Idol released?

The Case of the Golden Idol was released in 2022.

How many reviews does The Case of the Golden Idol have on Steam?

The Case of the Golden Idol has 10,795 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is The Case of the Golden Idol worth playing?

Steam players rate The Case of the Golden Idol 98% positive across 10,795 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

The Case of the Golden Idol

Oct 13, 2022 Adventure $17.99

Developer Color Gray Games Publisher Playstack

Profile updated Jun 2026

Adventure indie game The Case of the Golden Idol launched in 2022 from developer color-gray-games and publisher playstack. On Steam it has 10,483 reviews with 98% positive sentiment, and an initial price of $17.99.

The Case of the Golden Idol is a 2022 Adventure game developed by Color Gray Games and published by Playstack. On Steam it has gathered 10,795 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Color Gray Games with publisher Playstack is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 453,000 to 1.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Case of the Golden Idol can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

10,795

Positive

98%

Steam appid

1677770

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Unavailable

Sales estimate

v1.0

453K to 1.1M

units (median: 756K)

≈ $4.7M to $10.9M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

453K median 1.1M

+ How is this calculated?

10,795 reviews × NB(70) = 755,650 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2022	0
price_$18	0
positive_98%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	70

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Case of the Golden Idol at roughly 453,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 756,000, derived from its 10,795 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $7.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

43 observed days · window low $8.09

Across 43 observed UTC days from 2026-06-10 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $8.09 to $17.99. The tracked-window low was $8.09 on 2026-06-26.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

linuxmacwindows

Genres

AdventureIndie

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Case of the Golden Idol sold?: indielist estimates The Case of the Golden Idol has sold between 453,390 and 1,057,910 units (median 755,650), derived from its 10,795 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Case of the Golden Idol?: The Case of the Golden Idol was developed by Color Gray Games and published by Playstack.
Who published The Case of the Golden Idol?: The Case of the Golden Idol was published by Playstack, developed by Color Gray Games. See Playstack's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Case of the Golden Idol released?: The Case of the Golden Idol was released in 2022.
How many reviews does The Case of the Golden Idol have on Steam?: The Case of the Golden Idol has 10,795 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is The Case of the Golden Idol worth playing?: Steam players rate The Case of the Golden Idol 98% positive across 10,795 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like The Case of the Golden Idol can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Subnautica, Raft, Satisfactory, Human Fall Flat, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Color Gray Games's other releases and Playstack's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Case of the Golden Idol sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Case of the Golden Idol page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.