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The Case of the Golden Idol

Developer: Color Gray Games Publisher: PlayStack
13 October 2022
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202 Ratings / 1 Reviews
#224 All-time
#8 for 2022
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Crime investigation#7 Point-and-click adventure#4 Low fantasy#16 Occult#11 Detective#4 Historical#11 Logic puzzle#5
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A new kind of detective game that allows you to think and investigate freely. Discover clues surrounding 12 strange and gruesome deaths and build your own theory. Pick your suspect, deduce the motive, unmask the awful truth.
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2022-12-13 09:01:07.005468
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This is the most fun I've had from a small indie game in a while!
The Case of the Golden Idol is a mystery crime-solving game along the same lines as Return of the Obra Dinn, though turned into a point-and-click. Each level has you - usually - solving a murder and solving some other mystery along with it. The individual levels are great, and progresses from being very simple at the start, to being more open and complex later. You follow the titular Golden Idol from place to place and you get to watch a set of recurring characters and see how they play into the larger plot. This starts forming an intriguing, mysterious and sinister story from level to level; much larger than you might suspect from the first couple of levels. The way the story unravels as you follow the trail of bodies throughout the Idol's journey is my favourite part. They also change things up later in the game which pleasantly surprised me and kept things fresh and interesting. Absolutely adore this little game, good head-scratching fun!
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The best "Return of the Obra Dinn" of the year.
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white_calx The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-04-17T13:17:55Z
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kalts The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-04-12T22:19:01Z
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Shoe The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-04-11T19:54:30Z
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cultofbabies The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-04-09T09:45:39Z
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nikokin The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-04-07T17:49:31Z
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chaizan The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-04-02T20:58:08Z
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kristenisshe The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-03-29T03:13:50Z
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cellophanesound The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-03-28T15:04:18Z
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pilnyak The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-03-26T01:13:43Z
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Einarama The Case of the Golden Idol 2024-03-21T12:09:14Z
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  • DaughterOfJanus 2023-07-08 19:07:19.402787+00
    It's weird reading these comments because I was a bit disappointed that the later cases weren't complex enough. The complexity peaked for me with the dinner party case which was the one I got stuck on for a while, and I found pretty much all the cases afterwards to be much simpler.
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    • bdesteph 2023-07-21 15:20:12.209467+00
      Same here I fcking loved the dinner party, but the last one was pretty cool too even if I would have liked it a bit harder
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  • ... 2023-07-11 16:19:46.877855+00
    Great game and I really enjoyed. I feel like it’s a step up from Obra Dinn in that it felt less trial-and-error, though it still can become trial-and-error at times. Obra Dinn does feel like the more grand and impactful game though, maybe just because it’s in 3D.
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  • Convalescence 2023-08-28 07:47:19.455031+00
    Got this just because of the Obra Dinn comparisons and I’m definitely enjoying it so far. Not nearly as much as Obra Dinn but that’s a very high bar for me. We’ll see though, I think I’m still fairly early in.

    Love the art style overall. But we defs need more games like this and Obra Dinn in general
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    • Convalescence 2023-08-30 06:32:41.686514+00
      The fill in the blanks mechanic is probably my least favourite aspect of the game, even if the way you figure a lot of them out is fairly satisfying. Ultimately makes it feel more like an intricate logic puzzle game than a detective experience overall.

      Still really excellent, but Obra Dinn is still the GOAT for me in this style/genre.
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  • Convalescence 2023-09-19 00:04:08.250216+00
    Agreed with many other commenters above me; exposition in the later chapters is just way too much, way too tedious
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  • chromewave 2023-11-01 01:55:23.084816+00
    recommend me something like this or Obra Dinn, there's gotta be something at least kind of as good
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  • suddenlywolf 2024-01-07 19:24:18.806673+00
    felt a bit silly to figure out the final twist because it was the only option i had left and then when it clicked i was like. "well i guess that's true" and didn't really understand until the epilogue
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    • suddenlywolf 2024-01-07 19:25:08.313598+00
      overall i'd say if you're playing this game, go back and like, remember everyones names so you can see who's coming back in later chapters. i didn't do that unless a mystery required it and it meant that by the end i did not understand the overarching plot nearly as much as the game wanted me to.
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  • moralreef 2024-04-18 06:06:44.001885+00
    this game was far better than obra dinn, the deduction of the puzzles felt much more logical than obra dinn and the way everything ties together just really elevated this game in a way obra dinn didn't quite reach.
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