The Case of the Golden Idol is a sophisticated thriller sport spanning twelve murders and forty years, requiring you to fill in all of the gaps about what occurred.
This sport has little or no curiosity in main you round by your investigation, and I imply that in a constructive mild. You’re given an array of murders throughout an extended span of time, and also you’ll want to determine all the pieces about them. Certain, you’ve acquired a physique and presumably a homicide weapon mendacity in entrance of you, however who’s the corpse? Are you certain that’s the software that they had been killed with? You’ll must dig into paperwork, issues individuals stated, and something you could find round you to steer you to the snippets of data you’ll want to seek out out who died, who killed them, and why.
That is accomplished by filling in info in blanks, like within the screenshot above. As you discover names, weapons, and potential motives, you may shuffle these across the blanks as you search for your reply. Whereas this doesn’t sound terribly advanced, it’s that your solutions aren’t all the time accessible within the homicide scene you’re at the moment taking a look at. You may need to advance by the murders to seek out additional info that can make clear one thing that occurred up to now. Quite a lot of these things received’t even make sense till you’ve seen your entire homicide spree and may take a look at the massive image. I’m not stunned 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 kind of thriller sport that performs in your head even when the sport’s off as you mull over each risk. The form of factor the place you shoot off the bed within the evening since you’ve lastly linked a significant occasion or particular person. It’s endlessly compelling to tug at its mysteries and work out its solutions…when you can handle to assume your approach by them.
The Case of the Golden Idol is accessible now on GOG and Steam.