Statuetki is virtually unheard of in the Western world, it was a "great success for the fast-paced Polish audience". SS-NG wrote that so much had been written about it that certain points of analysis had become hackneyed. According to Polygon, "thanks to piracy just about every gamer of a certain age in Poland has played Mystery of the Statuette". Part of the reason was a Metropolis Pack containing Tajemnica Statuetki, Teenagent, and Katharsis put together by pirates and released as shareware. SS-NG said the unprofitability in the industry due to piracy necessitated a leap of faith on Chmielarz's part. Polish YouTuber Krzysztof “NRGeek” Micielski asserted that the game's original release marked the first title he ever bought rather than pirated. , Chmielarz is considered a "living legend" in the Polish video gaming industry and "one of the most important computer game developers" in the country. Polskie Gry Wideo shrugged off the title's underwhelming aspects as the "first, clumsy steps" at the beginning of Chmielarz's influential career, calling it a "step in the right direction". The history of early Polish video game development, and specifically the creation of Tajemnica Statuetki, was addressed in the Polish-language book Nie tylko Wiedźmin: Historia polskich gier komputerowych. In 2014, Orange listed the game as the sixth best Polish game of the 1990s. Logo 24 listed Tajemnica Statuetki as one of the "Top 10 ... most important Polish games", deeming Chmielarz "probably the most known and respected Polish game developer". In 2016, the game was exhibited as part of the Digital Dreamers exhibition at the Palace of Culture and Science Sciences in Warsaw and was listed by Benchmark in their article Najlepsze polskie gry (The best Polish games''). Marcin N. Drews and Chmielarz reunited for a panel at the 2017 Pixel Connect convention, where they spoke about the game. Chmielarz had previously spoken about it on a 2013 panel with other early Polish game developers. The game can be legally played at GOG.com. Notes References External links An hour-long interview with Adrian Chmielarz An interview with Marcin M. Drews about the game 1993 video games Point-and-click adventure games Detective video games DOS-only games DOS games Europe-exclusive video games First-person adventure games Video games about police officers Video games developed in Poland Video games set in Chile Single-player video games Metropolis Software games