The Case of the Golden Idol

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 7,685 reviews of which 7,564 were positive and 121 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 11.69€ on Steam and has a 35% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Case of the Golden Idol into these genres:

Mystery Detective Investigation Conspiracy Puzzle Story Rich 2D Point & Click Thriller Interactive Fiction Dark Atmospheric Singleplayer Pixel Graphics Choices Matter Historical Adventure Crime Narrative Exploration

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

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

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

After 10 hours, managed to beat the base game. Took a little more time, because English is not my native language, so i had to check for some words meaning, and some informations too. Also decided never to take hints, so takes a little longer... This game ihas a sick point and click gameplay. The mysteries are challenging, yet possible if you are patient and if you think outside the box. A lot of stories are really interesting, and delicious to uncover. Sometimes, taking notes will help a lot, because you can be submerged by a lot of clues (not all are useful thought, like real mysteries). However, game keeping me entertained, and always wondering how the story will go, because yeah, every mystery is a part of a big story, and its very great to follow! After the DLCs, will have to wait for the second game. It's a really cool game, even thought I took more time to solve the mysteries than the others...

Oct. 2024

A very fun (and difficult) mystery game. It's short, sweet, and every level raises the complexity of the game. THE REVIEW ONWARDS IS ABOUT THE OPTIONAL REDUX VERSION RELEASED ON OCTOBER 10 DO NOT PLAY THE REDUX VERSION. They quite literally made a mobile/console port BACK to Steam. Any and all quality of life changes and improvements are overshadowed by the horrible execution of the update. They switched the informative and useful UI of the original version, to a mobile game UI. Each part of the UI is a different menu now, like a shitty mobile game (technically also console, since it's the console UI as well). They didn't even update the screen prompts, and it assumes you're playing with a controller???

June 2024

The Case of the Golden Idol is one of the best puzzle games I've ever played. It's similar to games like Return of the Obra Dinn , but quite a bit more player friendly when it comes to backtracking. You're essentially a detective, in each scene you're able to pick up evidence in the form of words; names, locations, actions, and more. These words are all added to a bank that you use to fill in the blanks and spell out exactly what happened in the scene in front of you. Solving puzzles in The Case of the Golden Idol is very rewarding, and it has a great difficulty curve as later scenes require you to pay increased attention to environmental details and recall information from previous scenes. I've also found that it's a great entry point for those who don't game often; I've shown this to many friends who don't game outside of the New York Times puzzles, and fell in love with this game. If you enjoy puzzle games at all, I highly recommend giving The Case of the Golden Idol a try, it's a truly special experience. Highly Recommended If you found my review helpful, please consider following my [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44234346/]Steam Curator page , where you can see more thoughts and recommendations

March 2024

So good. A perfect deduction game. Everything a Sherlock Holmes mystery game should be, but never is. It's not a hidden object game, and it's not a point-and-click adventure. The Return of the Obra Dinn is its only peer. Persistence pays. It's always *just* frustrating enough, and the "i am smart" feeling when you finally piece all the clues together is sooooo sweet.

Jan. 2024

Don't let the art style turn you away! If you like investigation games like Obra Dinn, this is a great experience! All of the puzzles felt like a perfect mix of difficult but still doable - everything slowly starts falling into place as you piece together the puzzle, and then seeing the whole picture feels like a total Brain Blast. The DLC's were also fun, but I found the Lemurian Vampire to be a little tedious and require some stretching of logic. Overall would highly recommend if you would like to enjoy a fun mystery!

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