Mystery games have been on the rise over the last few years, but it’s still rare to have one treat you like a proper sleuth. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Games like The Seance of Blake Manor and Emio — The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club accomplish some neat tricks with the formula, but they still put guardrails on the information you glean and how you glean it, not to mention the conclusions you can draw from it. It’s fine! It’s just not all that detective-y
The Case of the Golden Idol is very much that detective-y, though. Your job is scouring the scene of a — usually rather grisly and unsettling — murder and the surrounding areas, looking for any shred of a clue. Not that you’ll know how important something you find is right away. The idea is to stockpile information and figure out its relevance based on what you observe with the rest of the scene and what information you can find out about the people involved. Then, for the climax, you piece together all your bits and bobs and (hopefully) arrive at the right conclusion about what happened.
The Case of the Golden Idol is a brilliant detective mystery
It starts off in a comparatively simple manner, with you just slotting words into sentences that describe a basic scenario. That tutorial scenario involves an explorer murdering his companion and covering it up, all to get his hands on a mysterious artifact, before the scene shifts to another time and place entirely. Evidence gathering and deduction quickly escalate, though, and few things are more satisfying than feeling the shape of a conclusion gradually unfold in your mind as you work out how your clues fit together.
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