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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.

Gold Rush! Classic is an Action and Adventure game released in 2014, priced at $2.99, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (72% of 416 reviews).

0
playing now
72%
positive of 417 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$2.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 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

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 4 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 50% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 22% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 10k–25k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 417 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 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320162026Week of 2016-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

18802026-09-14 23:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 89 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 1 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 1 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 0 players
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

40112026-05-31 — 14 pageviews2026-06-04 — 19 pageviews2026-06-08 — 21 pageviews2026-06-12 — 20 pageviews2026-06-16 — 16 pageviews2026-06-20 — 20 pageviews2026-06-24 — 22 pageviews2026-06-28 — 17 pageviews2026-07-02 — 22 pageviews2026-07-06 — 26 pageviews2026-07-10 — 11 pageviews2026-07-14 — 25 pageviews2026-07-18 — 30 pageviews2026-07-22 — 23 pageviews2026-07-26 — 25 pageviews2026-07-30 — 29 pageviews2026-08-03 — 24 pageviews2026-08-07 — 20 pageviews2026-08-11 — 23 pageviews2026-08-15 — 25 pageviews2026-08-19 — 29 pageviews2026-08-23 — 33 pageviews2026-08-27 — 13 pageviews2026-08-31 — 37 pageviews2026-09-04 — 25 pageviews2026-09-08 — 18 pageviews2026-09-12 — 21 pageviews2026-09-16 — 13 pageviews2026-09-20 — 20 pageviews2026-09-24 — 23 pageviews2026-09-28 — 34 pageviews2026-10-02 — 19 pageviews2026-10-06 — 15 pageviews2026-10-09 — 29 pageviews
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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