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The rise and fall story of a real estate agent in 1920s Miami. Based on historical events. From Francisco González, creator of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator series, Shardlight, and Lamplight City.

A Golden Wake is a adventure, indie and point & click game developed and published by Grundislav Games.
Released on October 09th 2014 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 315 reviews of which 235 were positive and 80 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified A Golden Wake into these genres:

Adventure Indie Point & Click Pixel Graphics 2D Singleplayer Historical Short Noir Third Person Retro Colorful America Capitalism Crime Drama Economy Education Casual Modern

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS: Windows ME or higher
  • Processor: Pentium or higher
  • Memory: 64 MB RAM
  • Graphics: 640x400, 32-bit colour: 700 Mhz system minimum
  • DirectX: Version 5.2
  • Storage: 350 MB available space
  • Sound Card: All DirectX-compatible sound cards
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.11+
  • Processor: 1.2 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 500 MB available space
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu compatible
  • Processor: Pentium or higher 1.2 GHz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 320x200, 32-bit colour
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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July 2025
Historical interesting. Has some flaws, but I ended up appreciating this game, not for been one of the grates, but for the historical research behind it. It was hard to connect with the characters, but they grew up on me thanks to the developer commentaries. I turned on since my first run a the second chapter, and did not regret it,; praise to Francisco for such a great historical research made videogame.
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July 2025
A very casual, short-ish old timey adventure, which flowed quite nicely. I've only played it once and I'm eager to play again to see if choices does matter. My only complaint is, once you click a point for our guy to walk to, you need to wait for him to complete the move before you can cancel it, and there are a few points in the game where potentially ending changing moments just happen and I admittedly forgot to save often :)
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July 2025
It's June in Miami. The only game where Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, Al Capone, and William Jennings Bryan fill out a cast. People who have played this game seem to have been fans of this developer's previous work. I had found out about this game because I live in the city that this was based off and they had just celebrated their 100th year. It came up on the Wikipedia page of the city and the rest is history. I love point and click adventure games and I thought the developer did a fantastic job making this as an homage to those games from the 90s. Genuinely shocked I hadn't heard of this game until now since I'm a fan of local history and this genre. It's so surreal to see so many spots that I frequent in real life as set pieces in a video game. I actually live a block away from the Merrick house and the Biltmore Hotel. I won't be getting this level of immersion in a game until Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out. I'm sure my experience on this game will be a unique one since most people from Miami probably haven't heard of this and the ones who did are from out of town. I played with the commentary track on because I wanted to experience this game as Edutainment. It was a really fun way to learn local history and I'm just lucky enough that that the developer is someone who had the game making skills and enough appreciation to make this a local passion project. Really a project like this is an anomaly to come out of Miami. As educational as this was, I did learn a lot, I felt it glazed George Merrick far too much, He came off too much like Andrew Ryan in BioShock but played completely straight. I'm very lucky to live in a city that had so much thought put into its aesthetic right from its founding and has preserved it since. I especially liked the conversation at the end that other city founders wouldn't have been as lofty with their ideas and would have immediately tore down the landmarks if it meant more revenue coming in. I literally live surrounded by these landmarks and see them everyday. The houses still look like that, the Alhambra lighthouse is still standing, the Biltmore hotel looks exactly like it does in game, the Venetian pool is a classic summer past time. That said George Merrick was a racist and his prejudices may have played a part in his city planning, the developers may have wanted to stick to the positives about the city's founding but it is a pretty noticeable omission. The art is pretty decent and so are the puzzles but the music really shines. I thought the moral rise and fall of the fictional main character wasn't that interesting. it should have instead followed Merrick as the protagonist who was already the real main character of this story. I would really only recommend to people interested in history, the city of Miami, or someone who'll play most point and click adventure games.
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Oct. 2024
In my consideration "Lamplight city" is much better than "A Golden Wake", but this game is lovely too. It reminds classical quests of 90's and has it's own unique atmosphere, so rare nowadays.
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Oct. 2024
A great short original adventure game with cool art, interesting situations, no frustrating puzzles and kick ass music.
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A Golden Wake is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

A Golden Wake is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.99€ on Steam.

A Golden Wake received 235 positive votes out of a total of 315 achieving a rating of 7.03.
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A Golden Wake was developed and published by Grundislav Games.

A Golden Wake is playable and fully supported on Windows.

A Golden Wake is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

A Golden Wake is playable and fully supported on Linux.

A Golden Wake is a single-player game.

A Golden Wake does not currently offer any DLC.

A Golden Wake does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

A Golden Wake does not support Steam Remote Play.

A Golden Wake is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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