The Case of the Golden Idol is a rewarding series of point-and-click murder mysteries

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The Case of the Golden Idol is a rewarding series of point-and-click murder mysteries
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The puzzles are tough, but solving them is a thrill.

tasks you with solving murder mysteries involving the titular golden idol . As a longtimeturned out to be more challenging because you have to solve cases with a lot less information, but cracking a mystery was just as rewarding.

For each case, you’ll be looking at a scene that takes place during or shortly after a murder. The scene itself is a brief section of time, with characters animating on a very short loop. Outside a vague title, you aren’t given any explanation about the case itself or who is involved, so you just have to click around the scene to investigate things like the deceased’s body, objects lying around, or the people you can see. The game calls this the “Exploring” view.

In the “Exploring” mode, you’ll have to click on things to see if they’re of potential interest to the case.As you click on things, words of interest will appear in a repository at the bottom of your screen. That means for the first part of a case, you’ll spend time collecting words like “idol” or “knife,” as well as first and last names to fill out the repository.

Here, you’ll use all of the words you’ve collected to piece together things like the identities of characters and a description of how the murder actually took place. You’ll also have to figure out mini-mysteries relevant to the scene you’re looking at, like which parts of a shredded will were addressed to which characters. It all functions kind of like a Mad Libs page, except instead of writing nonsense, you’re trying to solve a murder.

is one of those games that I wish I could forget and play all over again for the first time. I’ve heard it compared to

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