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Golden Record Retriever cover art

Golden Record Retriever

Hoochoo Game Studios · 2024-03-22

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Aug 03, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

⟪Golden Record Retriever⟫ is a rogue-like DICE building game in which a golden retriever kidnapped by aliens grows into a space hero by retrieving the golden records that have become a "space headache.”

63%
positive of 51 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$15.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 72% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 65% of 25,403 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.0k–2.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $5.43 at Steam (2024-11-27)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $15.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820232026Week of 2023-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$15.99$5.432023-08-032026-07-092023-08-03 — best price $14.392023-09-20 — best price $14.392023-11-14 — best price $12.792023-12-21 — best price $12.792024-01-25 — best price $12.792024-03-14 — best price $12.792024-03-22 — best price $12.792024-05-23 — best price $12.792024-06-27 — best price $12.792024-11-27 — best price $5.432024-12-20 — best price $5.432025-03-05 — best price $5.432025-03-13 — best price $5.432025-05-29 — best price $5.432025-06-27 — best price $5.432025-09-16 — best price $5.432025-09-29 — best price $5.432025-12-18 — best price $5.432026-01-26 — best price $5.432026-03-19 — best price $5.432026-05-04 — best price $5.432026-06-25 — best price $5.432026-07-09 — best price $15.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, Korean, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

IndieSpaceAliensCasualPuzzleCartoonStrategyTabletopCard GameSteampunk

Census log

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

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