The Case of the Golden Idol is an advanced thriller recreation spanning twelve murders and forty years, requiring you to fill in all of the gaps about what occurred.

This recreation has little or no curiosity in main you round by your investigation, and I imply that in a constructive gentle. You’re given an array of murders throughout an extended span of time, and also you’ll want to determine the whole lot about them. Sure, you’ve bought a physique and presumably a homicide weapon mendacity in entrance of you, however who’s the corpse? Are you certain that’s the device that they had been killed with? You’ll need to dig into paperwork, issues folks stated, and something you’ll find round you to guide you to the snippets of data you’ll want to search out out who died, who killed them, and why.

This is accomplished by filling in data in blanks, like within the screenshot above. As you discover names, weapons, and attainable motives, you’ll be able to shuffle these across the blanks as you search for your reply. While this doesn’t sound terribly complicated, it’s that your solutions aren’t all the time obtainable within the homicide scene you’re presently . You might need to advance by the murders to search out additional data that can make clear one thing that occurred up to now. Quite a lot of these items gained’t even make sense till you’ve seen the complete homicide spree and might take a look at the massive image. I’m not shocked this impressed the creator of Obra Dinn, because it’s one of many extraordinarily few video games I’ve performed since that has captured that feeling of actual deduction.

The Case of the Golden Idol is the form of thriller recreation that performs in your head even when the sport’s off as you mull over each chance. The sort of factor the place you shoot away from bed within the evening since you’ve lastly linked an important occasion or individual. It’s endlessly compelling to tug at its mysteries and work out its solutions…in case you can handle to assume your approach by them.



The Case of the Golden Idol is out there now on GOG and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been overlaying indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games will be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.