I strongly recommend The Case of the Golden Idol. It's a challenging yet highly satisfying detective game with a simple but effective word selection mechanic reminiscent of Mad Libs. There may have been a few instances of the puzzles being a touch too hard for my liking, be that due to information tying things together being too nuanced and unclear or a couple of times when I solved something by using guesswork rather than deduction, but the vast majority of the cases I was able to reason out - even when I needed to take notes and create my own logic puzzle to solve them. Revealing the intriguing narrative about a secret society and mysterious, powerful relic with its twists was highly entertaining, as well.

Reviewed on Nov 06, 2022


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