The Award-winning detective saga returns in this standalone sequel to The Case of the Golden Idol. Uncover the truth behind 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity in the 1970s. The world has changed dramatically - the sins of humanity have not.
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The Idol was lost — but not forgotten. In this followup to the award winning detective game The Case of the Golden Idol, you are an observer that must investigate 20 strange cases of crime, death and depravity - all somehow connected. Use your detective skills to make sense of a grand mystery that unfolds across an age of hallucinogens, disco, fax machines and parapsychology.
Two hundred years after the unspeakable fate of the Cloudsley family, the Idol's legend lives on only in whispers and myth… but some are determined for this to change. Discover the mysterious forces connecting a tenacious treasure hunter, a team of scientists, the members of an enlightenment-seeking cult and corporate profiteers drawn to the all-powerful artifact.
The Rise of the Golden Idol is a new type of detective game where you freely explore each crime scene at your own pace, using logic to build your own theories. Click to collect clues and analyze each discovery to determine what happened, why, and who was responsible.
Convicted prisoners, new age cult leaders, corporate middle management and many more figures have a role to play in the wider mystery that unfolds — each driven by their own agenda. Scour each scene for key details to put names to faces and deduce their motives.
A reworked interface lets you quickly gather key terms from observations and witness testimonies, greatly expanding the depth and variety of each scenario. Upon the conclusion of each chapter, a new type of puzzle lets you revisit past deductions, recap the events of these interconnected cases, and investigate the threads that unify them.
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| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $19.99 | 4.1Kreviews | 93% | — | $1.4M |
| $17.99−10% | 247ratings | 95% | — | not modelled | |
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A nice deduction game. I can see why it's highly raved but I felt that many of the puzzles required a very huge leap in cognitive reasoning to solve, and the intentional lack of ordering of sub-chapters was unnecessary and made it less of a joy to make sense of what was going on in the plot.
本体：⭐⭐⭐⭐ | DLC：⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 《黄金像凶杀案再起》（The Rise of the Golden Idol）拥有比一代《黄金像凶杀案》（The Case of）翻倍的体量外加4个堪称精品的DLC，叙事方面天马行空的科幻成分更多了一些，每一章节的谜题需要整合的信息密度也比前作大幅升级，除了延续一代的大脑洞推理，解谜题材还会涉及数学、物理、生物、医学、编程、密码学和手语翻译等领域，甚至DLC还出现了让我眼前一亮的微缩版奥伯拉丁致敬，烧脑的花活狠活可真是层出不穷啊。 但有个明显的缺憾是，这一作的本体不再有前作那样环环相扣、跌宕起伏的主线剧情和狂放不羁而又生动传神的人物塑造，大都是些松散乱序的八卦碎片和昙花一现的龙套角色，也少有令人拍案叫绝的惊喜或顿悟时刻，而作为一个文字量很大的游戏，难以引发玩家情感上的好奇和代入，对保持专注其实造成了一定的挑战。直到DLC部分，才出现了更有趣的坏人、更紧凑的悬念，逐渐把世界观补全，并与一代结局后的时间线圆满地贯通起来。 场外因素：官方汉化糟糕，而本作完形填空的格式以及提供信息颇为迂回、分散的特点很多时候难免受制于英文语序和语法结构，因此目前要完整体验本作依然需要较好的英文阅读能力 游玩建议：这游戏极为消耗大脑算力，虽然通关完最后一个DLC还是醍醐灌顶心满意足的，但困了或者累了的时候不建议游玩，我自己其实在死磕线索和推理过程中昏睡过去了好几次……
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Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese - Brazil*languages with full audio support
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It is the extension of the first game, so if you like the first game I recommend this game highly. If you haven't played it starts with the first one and then this, since there are some continuity with the first game.
A masterpiece. I played the golden idol series from the first game, and the creators outdid themselves with this one. A great twist of events. I am also glad they took what i thought was missing in the first game and made this one more unique.
I heard about the game on Escape this Podcast, and I bought it blind. There is a lot to like in this game - the writing is fantastic, and the art style is very evocative and intriguing. The part that killed my interest is the actual gameplay - extremely tedious to drag/click on the same few things on the screen. The game severely needs some QoL improvement, some sort of shortcut or better command in the resolution screens.
전작보다 콘텐츠는 더 많아진 후속작 게임은 재미있으나 여전히 번역으로 인해 추리하기가 힘든 점도 있다 또 하나 아쉬운 점이라면 전작보다 이미 풀었던 스테이지로 이동하는게 느려져서 아쉽다
不算上DLC只能给到85分，加上DLC可以给到98分，2分扣给翻译。 相对于前作迷题难度和形式大幅增加，但与此相对中文翻译的问题也更加明显，很多地方翻译会让你卡上很久，但依旧瑕不掩瑜，剧情上的设计和迷题的质量依旧上乘，初看难度不小但只要静下心来思考就会发现线索提示其实给的很足，就开谜题是的成就感也是无可比拟的。DLC更是将剧情延升，世界观补完，还给了1代部分角色补充了一点小小的后日谈，这种小情怀也是让人很有好感的。
有了民间汉化之后有了质的飞升，打了dlc。但是还是会出现【寻找】和【寻得】这种微妙的区别，以及nothing这个词翻译成无物的情况。只能说真的很难翻译…… 繁中翻译就是一坨。除去翻译我愿意给满分。
its just amazing
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