The Rise of the Golden Idol
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The Rise of the Golden Idol is an adventure developed by Color Gray Games, released 12 November 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. It currently starts at $15.99 at Fanatical.
What The Rise of the Golden Idol is
The Rise of the Golden Idol is an adventure game developed by Color Gray Games and released in 2024. It was published by Netflix. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Godot.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Idol rises... 300 years later. Three centuries following the unspeakable fate of the Cloudsleys, the legend of the Golden Idol has all but faded. Now it is carried only in small whispers, uttered as an obscene myth. Some are determined for this to change.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 46 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Rise of the Golden Idol holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 13 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.7 GHz Dual Core, 8 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4600. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $15.99 at Fanatical, 20% below its usual price. Across the 9 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $19.99 — a spread of $4.00 for an identical product.
What it launched against
The Rise of the Golden Idol launched on 12 November 2024, within three weeks of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Life is Strange: Double Exposure. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, Life is Strange: Double Exposure.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Rise of the Golden Idol yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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