Rise of the Golden Idol goes full Columbo as it transports the first game's 18th-century murder solving to the 1970s

Alright, bad news: There's been a murder. Worse news: You're going to have to solve it in bell-bottoms. The Rise of the Golden Idol—sequel to the excellent Case of the Golden Idol—just got a funky-fresh new trailer at the PC Gaming Show, showing off its new '70s setting and a few of the ways you'll be piecing together the puzzle pieces of its many terrible, terrible crimes.

And gosh, isn't it striking? Where the first game was an 18th-century tale of murder and misfortune, Rise of the Golden Idol transports your crime-solving forward 300 years, and the artstyle has shifted to match. It's not, but it's lurid and seedy in a way that fits its new disco-era setting: A time of schlocky B-movies, technicolour televangelists and, well, yes, bloody murders that all seem to have some cursed thread connecting them. Some things never go out of style.

Idols, for instance, remain popular, which is no doubt why Rise of the Golden Idol puts you in the shoes of a"tenacious relic hunter on a quest to unearth the powerful artifact that—if the legend is true—can reshape the world." A bit like Tomb Raider meets Columbo, then, and all disquietingly connected to the"unspeakable fate of the Cloudsleys" 300 years earlier, which means murder and conspiracy aplenty.

Puzzles aplenty too, and some of the ones we see do look familiar. For instance, you'll still be dragging around words—names, murder weapons, occult concepts—to piece together your theories, but the screenshots of assault rifles and pistols, alongside shots of lab equipment, suggest to me that things might be getting a little forensic, too.

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