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The Case of the Golden Idol
The Case of the Golden Idol makes clue-combining the heart of its solo investigation: reconstruct deaths and deduce suspects, motives and weapons for yourself. Steam offers full controller support. At $7.36 from 
Eneba, the purchase comes down to whether focused deduction suits you; the Steam player rating is 97% from 9,887 reviews. It is a natural fit for players who would rather examine scenes and reach their own conclusions than simply follow a prescribed solution. At $17.99 from Eneba, weigh the cost against the Steam player rating of 97% from 9,887 reviews.
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Past 36 months · Updated dailyHistorical Low~ $6.752026-03Current Low Across Stores~ $7.36Enebavs. Historical Low+9%
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01About The Case of the Golden Idol
In The Case of the Golden Idol, take the role of an 18th-century detective, inspect scenes and build your own theory from the clues. Deduce suspects, motives and murder weapons as twelve deaths spanning fifty years reveal a larger mystery. Steam player rating: 97% positive from 9,887 reviews. Release date: October 12, 2022.
Credits
Developer
Color Gray Games
Publisher
Playstack
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Steam PC edition data · 2026-10-20
02Before you buy
Play style
The Steam PC version is single-player and has full controller support.
Investigation
The story follows twelve strange deaths spanning fifty years. Clues let you deduce suspects, motives and murder weapons.
03Frequently asked questions
How does the investigation work?
Reconstruct scenes and use clues to identify suspects, motives and weapons.
How many cases are there?
The story connects twelve deaths across fifty years.
What is the mystery about?
A mysterious Golden Idol and a cursed aristocratic family are at the heart of the mystery.
Popular Steam reviews
Native-language selection · 10 reviewsSelected helpful reviews in this language show both recommendations and criticisms. This selection does not represent the overall positive rating; opinions reflect the version reviewed.
RecommendedSteam player
A _________ game, if a bit ____ for the price point. ┌────┐ ┌───────┐ │ Short │ │ Fantastic │ └────┘ └───────┘Show moreShow less
4.1 hours at review232 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Gonna go against all the positive reviews here and recommend you skip this one unless it's on sale. Did I enjoy playing through The Case of the Golden Idol? Yea, mostly. So why am I not recommending it? Two main problems. First, the game is extremely short for $18, Steam has my playtime at just under 4 hours but the time I actually spent playing this is probably closer to 2.5/3 hours since I left the game open while I was doing other things. The game feels like it's missing the final few chapters, the current ending is abrupt and feels a little like a joke ending that the devs decided to turn into the real ending because they didn't have time/couldn't make a better one. Normally I love short but dense games, but that leads me to my second problem with the game. The second problem is that the detective gameplay felt quite shallow, there was maybe only one scenario in the whole game where I felt like I was making a clever observation to figure something out. Most of the time I was just sweeping through the levels, clicking on every word I could and just casually figuring the level out without even really having to think. I see a lot of comparisons to Return of the Obra Dinn in the reviews and I have to strongly disagree. The brilliance of Return of the Obra Dinn was the ability for the player to move and look around in the world, you had to personally check the scene and look around every corner, it rewarded you for being thorough and observant. In Case of the Golden Idol, pretty much all the relevant information is just handed to you, every scene is static and cannot be interacted with or moved through for a different perspective; there's no sense of discovery in the game. There's also a lot of redundancy in solving the scenarios with the word filling mechanic. In the end, the game just felt a little disappointing, it's definitely not bad, but at this price and with all these other positive reviews I felt like I should put this one out there.Show moreShow less
3.9 hours at review60 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
Every review on this page is going to tell you this is an excellent logic-deduction adventure game, and every review on this page is going to tell you that it's a tight 5 hours, and every review on this page is going to compare the game to Obra Dinn. This is probably the most enthusiastic adventure game recommendation I'd give since Outer Wilds or Obra Dinn. But in an effort to say something new, I'll just note that I am by profession a political scientist and this was one of the most surprisingly political science literate games I've ever played. The game puts a lot of thought into little details about how an aristocratic, post-Glorious Revolution "England" looked. Little details about speeches in parliament are great. A mid-game level discusses the politics of coalition formation in Westminster parliamentary systems in a surprisingly effective way. A late-game level shows a society that has been gripped by anocracy and is rapidly dismantling institutional and democratic safeguards. There's even a very early case where a character has a copy of Plato's Republic on the shelf, in one of the few overt nods to political theory I've ever seen in a game. I am really, genuinely surprised to run into this and I'm stuck wondering if one of the team members took a degree in a related field. These are all little background details that really have nothing to do with whether or not you'll enjoy the game, and you don't need to know any of what I'm talking about, or even notice it, to recognize it's a great game... but, like, if you trained in biochemistry and a video game had a background discussion of how aspirin is an irreversible COX-1 inhibitor, even if that was just a minor detail, you'd still be super excited to see that kind of literacy even if it had nothing to do with anything, and that's sort of how I feel here.Show moreShow less
5.6 hours at review227 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
The story is fine, the game play is fine. Its very much like a light version of the Return of the Obra Dinn. There's some very poor musical choices, while there's a couple of great songs. However, the length of the game doesn't justify the $18 price. Took me five hours which is probably about average, and there's honestly no replayability to this game. I appreciate the artistic implementation(except for those really weird songs) and the story telling, but I don't think there's enough here for the price, I'd recommend picking it up for under $10( I know that's not what the dev/publisher want to hear).Show moreShow less
5.2 hours at review28 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I don't know if the developer will read this, but please make more of this. I would keep buying these forever.Show moreShow less
26.4 hours at review165 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
Leaving a negative review just to let people know that the recently released "Redux" UI is unconscionably bad. It feels like a UI sized for a mobile phone and it's looks cartoonish on my desktop monitor. The move away from a pixel font to a vector font is great, but the replacement of the constantly visible word bar and single "thinking" page with a bunch of different tabs is terrible. If you still want to play this game, I highly recommend using the original UI. Skip the "Redux" version!Show moreShow less
13 hours at review24 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I just finished the second, and final, DLC for this game about 15 minutes ago. I'm having a hard time putting into words how much I loved this game, but I'm going to try. If we accept that games are often power fantasies, it's worth noting the different types of power we can wield in them. It's not always about physical, lethal, or supernatural power; sometimes it's brain power. A lot of games want you to feel smart. Or, conversely, a lot of games do everything possible so you don't feel stupid. A lot of people will compare this came to The Curse of the Obra Dinn, and for good reason. But nothing in my entire life has made me sit up and yell with excitement like this game. I have sat, motionless, for 30 minutes, just muttering to myself and shifting proper nouns in the game's menus, until it all clicked. This game tells a story that's both far-reaching and extremely focused; the solutions to its puzzles require a commitment to memory and detail, but they never feel like they're completely out of left field. In fact, what I love most about all three stories is how the final revelations come down to humans using the supernatural for extremely human reasons: From vanity, to power, to brokenhearted revenge. The game has a hint system that I'm told is well-implemented, and you're not punished for using it. But I never did. Not because I'm trying to brag, but because I never felt STUCK on an edge of bad writing or flimsy game design. I knew that if I kept looking and thinking, everything would come into focus. And it always did. There are a handful of times where I wasted minutes on ambiguous phrasing (did a character FIND an object, or did they OBTAIN it?), but I won't remember that a year from now. I'll remember those moments where it all came together, because the developers trusted their players enough to allow them space to think. I truly wish more games were like this, and I have devoured everything that's even kind of close. I cannot wait for what the devs do next.Show moreShow less
17.8 hours at review148 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
When I opened the DLC, "The Spider of Lanka," I was greeted with the most racist caricature of Sri Lankan history and culture that I've ever seen. As someone with Sri Lankan heritage, I felt very offended at the tribalist aesthetic that they called "Lanka." It's a real place! It isn't like Lemuria, a literal conspiracy theory, which they treated as if it were similarly realistic to Lanka. They did just enough research on Sri Lankan tradition to infuriate me, and I couldn't even pretend they were making up a new place called "Lanka." The northern part of the map was called Jaffna! I've _been_ to Jaffna before. It's not just an aesthetic. "Gamini" and "Vijaya" are also terms associated with Sri Lanka. I'm very frustrated with this game, because I wanted dearly to enjoy it, but the depiction of my heritage made me feel sick.Show moreShow less
10.9 hours at review23 people found this helpful
RecommendedSteam player
I will write a review in the spirit of the Golden Idol. Golden Idol is a detective game in which you must fill in blanks using information gathered from crime scenes. The story is full of twists and secrets, while the crime scenes are sometimes pretty clever. With an occult and whimsical story tone, Golden Idol feels like a cross between Obra Dinn and Rusty Lake. *crime *story *Golden *Lake *scenes *Rusty *blanks *Dinn *detective *IdolShow moreShow less
6.2 hours at review91 people found this helpful
Not recommendedSteam player
what starts as a pretty consistent system of logic puzzles degrades into bruteforcing your way through dozens of stupid names and a bunch of ancillary tedium that serves basically only to obfuscate what you're even supposed to be trying to do. the way the scenarios are laid out and the way the puzzles want you to fill them in is pretty inconsistent after the first chapter. even in scenarios where i could pinpoint what happened, when, and to whom, there were parts where i had to look at a guide in order to understand what the puzzle was even asking me. there were also times filling stuff in that i "completed" a scenario without even understanding what had happened, thus robbing me of any sense of satisfaction.Show moreShow less
3.7 hours at review21 people found this helpful
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