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

indielist estimates The Rise of the Golden Idol has sold between 155,946 and 363,874 units (median 259,910), derived from its 3,713 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Rise of the Golden Idol?

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

Who published The Rise of the Golden Idol?

The Rise 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 Rise of the Golden Idol released?

The Rise of the Golden Idol was released in 2024.

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

The Rise of the Golden Idol has 3,713 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.

Is The Rise of the Golden Idol worth playing?

Steam players rate The Rise of the Golden Idol 93% positive across 3,713 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 Rise of the Golden Idol

Nov 12, 2024 Adventure $19.99

Developer Color Gray Games Publisher Playstack

Profile updated May 2026

This 2024 adventure game features a puzzle-solving core. It has accumulated 3,575 Steam reviews since its release. The developer and publisher attribution is not yet imported.

The Rise of the Golden Idol is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Color Gray Games and published by Playstack. On Steam it has gathered 3,713 player reviews, 93% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. 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 156,000 to 364,000 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 Rise of the Golden Idol can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

3,713

Positive

93%

Steam appid

2716400

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 14:30 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

156K to 364K

units (median: 260K)

≈ $1.8M to $4.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

156K median 364K

+ How is this calculated?

3,713 reviews × NB(70) = 259,910 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2024	0
price_$20	0
positive_93%	+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 Rise of the Golden Idol at roughly 156,000 to 364,000 copies, with a median around 260,000, derived from its 3,713 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $3.0M 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

21 observed days · window low $15.99

Across 21 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $15.99 to $19.01. The tracked-window low was $15.99 on 2026-05-31.

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

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Platforms

macwindows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Rise of the Golden Idol sold?: indielist estimates The Rise of the Golden Idol has sold between 155,946 and 363,874 units (median 259,910), derived from its 3,713 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Rise of the Golden Idol?: The Rise of the Golden Idol was developed by Color Gray Games and published by Playstack.
Who published The Rise of the Golden Idol?: The Rise 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 Rise of the Golden Idol released?: The Rise of the Golden Idol was released in 2024.
How many reviews does The Rise of the Golden Idol have on Steam?: The Rise of the Golden Idol has 3,713 Steam reviews, of which 93% are positive.
Is The Rise of the Golden Idol worth playing?: Steam players rate The Rise of the Golden Idol 93% positive across 3,713 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 Rise of the Golden Idol can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as Tangle Tower, Sally Face - Episode One, The Roottrees are Dead, THE LONGING, 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 Rise 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 Rise 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.