The Case of the Golden Idol is an advanced 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 your investigation, and I imply that in a optimistic gentle. You’re given an array of murders throughout an extended span of time, and also you’ll want to determine every little thing 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 positive that’s the instrument that they have been killed with? You’ll need to dig into paperwork, issues folks stated, and something you will discover 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 data in blanks, like within the screenshot above. As you discover names, weapons, and potential 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 at all times accessible within the homicide scene you’re at present . You may need to advance by the murders to search out additional data that can make clear one thing that occurred previously. Quite a lot of these items received’t even make sense till you’ve seen all the 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 recreation 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 off the bed within the night time since you’ve lastly linked an important occasion or individual. It’s endlessly compelling to tug at its mysteries and work out its solutions…for those who can handle to assume your means by them.
The Case of the Golden Idol is accessible now on GOG and Steam.
