Step into the flamboyant buckled sneakers of an 18th Century detective to attempt to unravel a 40-year-long thriller. 12 circumstances, one doubtlessly magical object, rumours of a cult, and one aristocratic household on the centre of all of it? Sounds like a recipe for a splendidly bizarre point-and-click journey. The Case of the Golden Idol is a dastardly story of greed, conspiracies, and thievery.

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Platforms:  PC Steam
Players: 1
Genres: Point & Click, Murder Mystery, Detective
Developer: Color Grey Games
Price: £16.99
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The Case of the Golden Idol Review

There’s been a homicide, a reasonably easy case to begin you off with. Someone has been pushed off of a cliff. Seeing as there was just one different individual round on the time. This one is a reasonably open-and-shut case. Search the scene to uncover the clues. Then after you have all of them. You simply must put them in the fitting place – fairly actually.

The Case of the Golden Idol has a reasonably easy premise at coronary heart. Each scene exhibits you a snapshot in time – the ‘Exploring’ tab, of the homicide both having simply occurred or, within the midst of all of it. Now you could seek for clues. These clues will then grow to be obtainable so that you can drag and drop into place in your ‘Thinking’ tab the place you’ll resolve the case and motives round what has occurred. As you search the scenes, phrases will grow to be obtainable on the Thinking tab so that you can slot into place. Suspects’ names, places, and objects will all seem for choice. Some could also be purple herrings while others are your reply. Reading the scene, and selecting up on the refined and fewer refined clues are the important thing to fixing these crimes.

Who dunnit

As you progress by way of every case you’ll begin to see that the identical characters maintain popping up. Additionally, a doubtlessly magical merchandise, the titular Golden Idol. The story follows this merchandise and the individuals who want to possess it and perceive it. There will likely be betrayals aplenty and it’s your job to comply with this mad bunch of individuals and resolve the 40-year-long thriller – in addition to all of the murders alongside the way in which.

As talked about issues do begin off pretty simple. The clues are principally in plain sight and you’ll fairly rapidly come to a conclusion about who dedicated the murders. That being mentioned, as you get to delve additional into the story issues grow to be foggier. The clues are much less apparent, the motives slightly extra obscured. By the top of it, you’ll be doing a variety of head-scratching as you strive to determine an elaborate set of occasions painted out to you within the vaguest manner potential.

Things get powerful.

A notepad might be going to be wanted and perhaps even a calculator. Yes, there’s even some maths to do. However, that’s to not say it’s a nasty factor. Each and each case is splendidly wacky and enjoyable to unravel and simply that little bit extra satisfying to resolve.

If Monty Python did Point-and-Click

With every new case, I couldn’t assist however be reminded of Monty Python sketches. More particularly, the animated components of movies like Life of Brian, and so on… The over-the-top facial expressions and the refined and easy animations that assist convey the scenes to life stored jogging reminiscences of the Monty gang.

The Case of the Golden Idol is a uniquely lovely recreation to have a look at. From the grand nation homes to the creepy cult den. Everything appears to be like so good. I reveled in every room I searched taking in all of the little particulars that assist convey all of it to life. Furthermore, the soundtrack plinks and clinks together with you in a jaunty and at instances barely unsettling manner.

The over-the-top characters with eccentric personalities are enjoyable to get to know. That being mentioned, I did get slightly confused at instances as to who’s who. There are fairly just a few individuals to maintain observe of and so they do share some related appears to be like or outfits. Again, maintain that notepad helpful.

Conclusion

The Case of the Golden Idol is a little bit of a mad trip from begin to end. There is quite a bit occurring and following the story can get slightly hazy. Furthermore, the big solid of characters doesn’t assist with a number of the extra complicated and convoluted options towards the top. However, it’s nonetheless some of the memorable and enjoyable experiences I’ve had enjoying video video games this yr. It’s weird, daring, and good.

-Will