The Case of the Golden Idol is a sophisticated thriller recreation spanning twelve murders and forty years, requiring you to fill in all of the gaps about what occurred.
This recreation has little or no curiosity in main you round by means of 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 things about them. Positive, you’ve acquired a physique and probably a homicide weapon mendacity in entrance of you, however who’s the corpse? Are you positive that’s the software that they had been killed with? You’ll should dig into paperwork, issues folks stated, and something you could find round you to steer 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 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 complicated, it’s that your solutions aren’t at all times out there within the homicide scene you’re presently . You may need to advance by means of the murders to search out additional info that can make clear one thing that occurred prior to now. Quite a lot of these items gained’t even make sense till you’ve seen your entire 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 form of thriller recreation that performs in your head even when the sport’s off as you mull over each chance. 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 determine its solutions…if you happen to can handle to assume your means by means of them.
The Case of the Golden Idol is accessible now on GOG and Steam.
