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Gold Rush! Classic cover art

Gold Rush! Classic

The Software Farm · Sunlight Games · 2014-07-25

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 25, 2014 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Gold Rush! takes you back to the year 1849, when gold was discovered in California. It was certainly one of the most exciting times in American history. Gold Rush! includes the three routes tens of thousands took to the gold regions. Become Jerrod Wilson and experience each trek as you travel from New York to California.

1
playing now
72%
positive of 416 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$2.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Gold Rush! is a graphic adventure video game designed by Doug and Ken MacNeill and released by Sierra On-Line in 1988.

Health check

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  • · Top 48% of 10,862 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 416 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Direct2Drive (2015-08-11) · bundled 15×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $2.99 · on sale 12 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$0.492015-01-012026-07-272015-01-01 — best price $2.992015-05-15 — best price $6.262015-10-09 — best price $3.392016-02-12 — best price $2.032016-07-18 — best price $2.392016-11-23 — best price $1.492017-02-06 — best price $0.712017-07-09 — best price $5.992017-12-18 — best price $0.592018-05-08 — best price $2.992018-11-27 — best price $2.992019-08-05 — best price $3.322019-12-22 — best price $0.522020-04-14 — best price $2.992020-06-18 — best price $2.992020-07-22 — best price $2.992020-08-22 — best price $2.992020-09-22 — best price $2.992020-10-22 — best price $2.992020-11-18 — best price $2.992020-12-20 — best price $2.992021-01-23 — best price $2.992021-02-22 — best price $2.992021-03-29 — best price $2.992021-04-26 — best price $2.692021-05-30 — best price $2.692022-02-24 — best price $2.222022-10-10 — best price $2.992023-09-04 — best price $1.012024-04-01 — best price $1.492024-12-04 — best price $2.992025-07-15 — best price $1.342026-03-19 — best price $1.012026-07-27 — best price $2.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2D1980sAnimeFunnyRetroActionAmericaWesternAdventureDifficult

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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