In direction of the top of final yr, many people donned our stovepipe hats and set about fixing a collection of grisly murders in 18th-century England in The Case of the Golden Idol on PC. On the time, we saved our fingers firmly crossed that the sport could be making its method over to Change (it even made our checklist of Change ports we would like to see in 2023), and now our needs have been granted.
Sure, if the headline of this piece wasn’t sufficient of a giveaway, Playstack and Coloration Grey Video games have at the moment introduced that The Case of the Golden Idol might be heading to Change. What’s extra, it is getting launched subsequent week on twenty fifth Could.
If you weren’t capable of get in on the investigation final yr, let’s clarify what this one is all about. The Case of the Golden Idol is a point-and-click text-based homicide thriller the place you’re tasked with cracking the case behind numerous ugly crimes in 18th-century England. These circumstances are offered as a snapshot so that you can discover earlier than deducing the suspect, motive and chronology of the occasions. All of this data is then piled into your interactive notepad, the place you in the end attempt to remedy the thriller.
Consider Monkey Island meets Return of the Obra Dinn and you will not be 1,000,000 miles off. There’s a single huge thriller that runs by means of the principle recreation’s 11 circumstances, and the Change can be going to obtain the sport’s DLC, ‘The Spider of Lanka’, from earlier this yr, so we might be set for murders to resolve in the interim.
For a little bit extra details about the sport itself and a have a look at some screenshots, take a look at the next from the publishers:
Concerning the Recreation
The Case of the Golden Idol is a story detective recreation set in an alternate 18th-century England the place gamers should examine 11 most unusual and ugly deaths spanning forty years. One thing terrible connects these tragedies, offering a wider thriller for the participant to unravel.Optimised for Nintendo Change
Every case is offered as a snapshot scene frozen in time. Gamers can freely search by means of these scenes in whichever trend they select to infer the suspect, motive, and chronology of occasions. The participant’s idea is then positioned into an interactive notepad, which in flip will inform the participant whether or not their idea is right or not.
For the Nintendo Change the UI has been overhauled to supply one of the best person expertise when utilizing the Nintendo Change in each handheld or docked mode.
Each The Case of the Golden Idol and its DLC might be obtainable to obtain individually or as a single discounted bundle from the Change eShop on twenty fifth Could.
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