‘The Case of the Golden Idol’ Requires Solid Deductions to Solve

The Case of the Golden Idol is an advanced thriller recreation spanning twelve murders and forty years, requiring you to fill in all the gaps about what occurred.

This recreation 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. Sure, you’ve acquired a physique and probably a homicide weapon mendacity in entrance of you, however who’s the corpse? Are you certain that’s the device that they had been killed with? You’ll have to dig into paperwork, issues individuals mentioned, and something you’ll find round you to lead you to the snippets of info you’ll want to discover out who died, who killed them, and why.

This is accomplished by filling in info in blanks, like in the screenshot above. As you discover names, weapons, and attainable motives, you’ll be able to shuffle these round the blanks as you search for your reply. While this doesn’t sound terribly complicated, it’s that your solutions aren’t at all times accessible in the homicide scene you’re at present . You might need to advance by the murders to discover additional info that may make clear one thing that occurred in the previous. An important deal of these things gained’t even make sense till you’ve seen the whole homicide spree and may take a look at the large image. I’m not shocked this impressed the creator of Obra Dinn, because it’s one of the 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 recreation that performs in your head even when the recreation’s off as you mull over each chance. The sort of factor the place you shoot out of mattress in the night time since you’ve lastly linked an important occasion or particular person. It’s endlessly compelling to tug at its mysteries and determine its solutions…in case you can handle to suppose your manner by them.



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

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for varied websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Magazine, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually on the lookout for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games might be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.