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The Case of the Golden Idol is a deduction game in which each chapter presents a carefully arranged crime scene tied to a broader story. The player views a frozen moment in time and must reconstruct the events that led to it. By interacting with characters, objects, and written materials, the player collects keywords that describe actions, identities, and items. These clues become tools for completing logical panels that explain the circumstances of each death and its relation to the Golden Idol.
Investigative Approach
The game expects the player to notice details that define cause and effect. Scene layouts reveal where characters moved, what they carried, and how conflicts unfolded. The player reads documents, checks expressions, studies footprints, and compares positions of objects to infer sequences. The keywords collected from these observations fill a vocabulary list used in later deductions. No chapter offers direct guidance; instead, interpretation grows from careful inspection and reasoning applied to environmental storytelling.
Core Actions
Across the chapters of The Case of the Golden Idol, the player performs repeating investigative tasks such as:
- Examining written notes to identify motives and hidden intentions
- Checking pockets, containers, and rooms for overlooked items
- Matching evidence with character roles or actions
- Filling deduction grids that outline the order of events
- Comparing scenes to trace recurring patterns and relationships
These tasks form a cycle of evidence gathering and hypothesis testing.
Puzzle Structure
Each chapter contains two distinct spaces: a free-exploration mode and a deduction interface. In exploration mode, the player clicks through every corner to gather the full set of clues. The deduction mode presents structured statements with blank spaces. To solve the puzzle, the player inserts the correct keywords into these spaces to explain who acted, what they did, and why the results unfolded as shown. Some solutions depend on clues found in earlier chapters, linking the cases into a coherent sequence.
Narrative Progression
As the player moves through the story, scenes begin to reveal the influence of the Golden Idol. Characters reappear with shifting goals, forming alliances or rivalries that change from chapter to chapter. Later investigations demand the ability to compare motives across multiple timelines and understand how earlier consequences shaped later events. The Case of the Golden Idol concludes once all scenes have been logically reconstructed, forming a complete narrative shaped by deduction, attention to detail, and the consistent application of evidence-based reasoning.
