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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.
The Case of the Golden Idol is a mystery, detective and investigation game
developed by Color Gray Games
and published by Playstack.
Released on October 13th 2022 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese and Turkish.
It has received 8,616 reviews of which 8,464 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 8.09€ on Steam with a 55% discount, but you can find it for 4.34€ on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS High Sierra
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.86 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Storage: 400 MB available space
Linux
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If you like logic and puzzle games, this is definitely a game for you. Highly recommended, including the DLCs. Story The Case of the Golden Idol and the two DLCs revolve around the whereabouts of the Golden Idol through time, and the fate of the people who got into contact with it. The two DLCs are prequels to the main story. Gameplay The Case of the Golden Idol is a series of events that are connected to each other. Each event is shown in a number of scenes that are frozen in time. The goal is to piece together what has happened leading up to the event shown in the scene(s), based on the presented information. At the same time, you collect a number of keywords, names, and phrases from the item descriptions and texts that you find. These keywords can then be used on a "thinking" screen to fill in gaps in short texts that explain aspects of the event, identify people, or name the killer. There's a keyword counter, showing you if you're still missing some, and there's a very useful function that highlights in different colors if you have interacted with some item already or not, and underlines keywords. On the "thinking" screen, there is again a helpful indicator that shows you when you are close to the correct result, or have still more than a couple of keywords wrong. Finally, there is a hint function if you get completely stuck. Difficulty The Case of the Golden Idol starts out relatively easy, and ramps up in difficulty and complexity with every new "event". But it remains fair and logical, everything you need to solve these events is there, you just have to connect the dots. I took a lot of notes, and only needed the hint system once. In hindsight, I missed something fairly obvious, I just didn't question my assumptions. On the plus side, the hint system lets you pick for which question you want a hint, so it doesn't ruin the whole solution for you. The difficulty of the two DLCs, that I also highly recommend, are at least on the level of the last few events in the main game. The Case of the Golden Idol is not a casual game, you need to pay attention, and taking notes will make your life a lot easier. If that sounds appealing to you, you'll have a blast solving these murder-mysteries.
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Now it's a good game I enjoyed it and all; but just because you liked obra dinn doesn't mean you will enjoy this. Obra Dinn is DIRECTED, like a film, from the music, the camera, all of it. It has a more morose and heartfelt attitude towards the brave or not so brave souls on the Obra dinn. This game is like watching aristocratic family members from the monkey island universe connive and murder each other with a magic device, it doesn't have the same vibe it's not the same, there are shocking scenes but because of the format they are not as immersive or powerful imo. In terms of similarity in puzzles some characters on screen are dead and you're trying to fill in the blanks but it's more like "X did Y in the Z room so that A can B", the puzzles vary from scene to scene in clever ways though which was pretty neat. Works on PS5 controller but it is slow going. I recommend this puzzle game on it's own merits rather than comparing it to another game.
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This game wasn't on my radar at all, but from the first minute I was completely enthralled. A perfect marriage of puzzle and mystery, I was compelled by both the gameplay and the story equally. If you liked Obra Din you must play this.
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People have been talking about this game for a while as sort of a successor to Obra Dinn. It's not an adventure game, it's a detective type game where you're just filling in the blanks (literally) as to who everyone is and what transpired in the scene you are viewing. There are 11 main game scenes and 6 DLC scenes. Base game took me about 4 hours and the DLCs took about the same amount of time despite being half the number of levels. The core story is entertaining and would make a good novel (DLCs as well, which are a prequel). However, I think it hits better if you don't figure out the twist early; I think the seed is planted too soon in the plot. The sounds are fine but nothing to write home about. Scenes are very slightly animated so they are not completely static, and the art style is kind of uniquely unpleasant, so at least it stands out. The core issues I have with the game are twofold: First, the difficulty of the base game is lacking. Over the course of 11 levels only a handful really used the mechanics beyond an extremely surface level implementation. The DLC missions fix this somewhat. Secondly, the implementation itself has core flaws related to grammar. Verb words (typically blue) will have tense endings attached to them which practically reduces the number of valid choices by 50% or more in many cases. In some rare cases (one particularly nasty one in the second DLC), there are additional articles before where a word should go which makes the correct answer grammatically incorrect. I understand the difficulties of implementing this kind of system, especially if you are translating into multiple languages, but the end result in this case is a huge disservice to the game's premise. Ultimately though, while I think the game doesn't quite deserve the level of praise and attention it's gotten, it's still quite good, and the DLCs are a welcome increase in challenge if you enjoy the base experience.
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for me, the litmus test of a good puzzle/mystery game is this: finding the solution all on your own makes you feel super smart. caving and using a hint or a guide makes you feel dumb, because solution makes you realize you could have solved it without help. this is a very, very good puzzle game.
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The Case of the Golden Idol is currently priced at 8.09€ on Steam.
The Case of the Golden Idol is currently available at a 55% discount. You can purchase it for 8.09€ on Steam.
The Case of the Golden Idol received 8,464 positive votes out of a total of 8,616 achieving an impressive rating of 9.51.
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The Case of the Golden Idol was developed by Color Gray Games and published by Playstack.
The Case of the Golden Idol is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Case of the Golden Idol is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Case of the Golden Idol is playable and fully supported on Linux.
The Case of the Golden Idol is a single-player game.
There are 3 DLCs available for The Case of the Golden Idol. Explore additional content available for The Case of the Golden Idol on Steam.
The Case of the Golden Idol does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Case of the Golden Idol does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Case of the Golden Idol is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Color Gray Games
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Release
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