The Rise of the Golden Idol Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-07-18
- Puzzles are varied and clever
- Significantly improved over predecessor
- Engaging and interesting story
- Inferior to predecessor
- Chinese translation is poor
- Characters less interesting
Emotions
Archetypes
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 4,046
- Positive
- 3,74992.7%
- Negative
- 2977.3%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 293,480
- Estimated revenue
- $5,866,665
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 90.86%
- Estimated copies lost
- 653
- Estimated revenue lost
- $13,053
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 90.9% Avg playtime 0.7h | 10.1% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 13112.6% Avg playtime 20h | 90186.5% Avg playtime 29.2h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 1.7 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 2.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 102.7 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 612.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,042 total
Organic purchasers93789.9%
Voted up: 87%
Key activations10510.1%
Voted up: 83%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,042 total
First impression0-2h222.11%
Voted up: 45%
Mid game2-10h17917.2%
Voted up: 75%
Late game10-20h34332.9%
Voted up: 83%
Endgame20h+49847.8%
Voted up: 95%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
84.4%
Global baseline 86.6%
32 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 4,046 total.