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 the whole lot about them. Positive, you’ve received 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 need to dig into paperwork, issues individuals mentioned, and something yow will discover round you to steer you to the snippets of knowledge 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 attainable motives, you possibly can 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 present taking a look at. You may need to advance by the murders to seek out additional info that may 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 complete homicide spree and might 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 type of thriller sport that performs in your head even when the sport’s off as you mull over each chance. The type of factor the place you shoot away from bed within the night time since you’ve lastly related an important occasion or individual. It’s endlessly compelling to tug at its mysteries and determine its solutions…when you can handle to assume your manner by them.
The Case of the Golden Idol is out there now on GOG and Steam.
