‘The Case of the Golden Idol’ Requires Strong Deductions to Clear up

The Case of the Golden Idol is an advanced 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 via your investigation, and I imply that in a constructive gentle. You’re given an array of murders throughout a protracted span of time, and also you’ll want to determine every thing about them. Certain, 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 software that they had been killed with? You’ll must dig into paperwork, issues folks stated, and something you’ll find round you to guide you to the snippets of knowledge you’ll want to search out out who died, who killed them, and why.

That 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. Whereas this doesn’t sound terribly complicated, it’s that your solutions aren’t all the time out there within the homicide scene you’re presently taking a look at. You might need to advance via the murders to search out additional data that may make clear one thing that occurred prior to now. A substantial amount of these items received’t even make sense till you’ve seen your complete homicide spree and may have a look at the large 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 type of factor the place you shoot away from bed within the evening since you’ve lastly related an important occasion or particular person. It’s endlessly compelling to tug at its mysteries and work out its solutions…in the event you can handle to assume your method via them.



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

Joel Couture

Joel has been masking indie video games for numerous websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, 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 may be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.