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 means of your investigation, and I imply that in a optimistic gentle. You’re given an array of murders throughout a protracted span of time, and also you’ll want to determine every little thing about them. Certain, you’ve obtained a physique and probably a homicide weapon mendacity in entrance of you, however who’s the corpse? Are you certain that’s the instrument that they had been killed with? You’ll must 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 data in blanks, like within the screenshot above. As you discover names, weapons, and potential motives, you’ll be able to 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 at all times accessible within the homicide scene you’re at the moment taking a look at. You may need to advance by means of the murders to seek out additional data that may make clear one thing that occurred previously. A substantial amount of these items received’t even make sense till you’ve seen the whole 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 kind of thriller sport 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 a significant occasion or individual. It’s endlessly compelling to tug at its mysteries and work out its solutions…when you can handle to assume your means by means of them.
The Case of the Golden Idol is out there now on GOG and Steam.