About the Game
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.
200 YEARS LATER… THE IDOL RISES
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.
FEATURES
LEAD YOUR OWN INVESTIGATION
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.
A CURIOUS CAST OF CHARACTERS
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 NEW APPROACH TO SOLVING CRIMES
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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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Fixed the text title offset for book in DLC 4 scenario 4
- Added missing veridola to Mourn in DLC 3 scenario 2
- Replaced placeholder art for work chat snippet in DLC 3
Two minor plothole fixes:
- Changed date of guestbook in DLC 4 scenario 1
- Changed I.D.O.L. to device in Chapter 3 final intermission
And a few more typos have been fixed.
- Due to changes in puzzle logic in the third scenario "Sickness and Health" your savegame maybe corrupted and the scenario will crash the game. To fix it, take the appropriate savegame from our savegame repository:
Other changes
- Improved visual inconsistencies in all scenarios (e.g., weapon look in ship past and present).
- Updated puzzles to be more accepting of alternative inputs (e.g., the weight puzzle in Whishbloom scenario).
- Fixed a minor plothole in "Last Orders" scenario with the map puzzle.
- Addressed a few typos in the DLC texts.
We pushed another patch for The Age of Restraint DLC:
• Dance animation optimization
• Art and text updates for consistency and clarity
- Updated puzzle contents to allow some alternative correct solutions
- Updated puzzle contents to eliminate some wrong inputs that were validated as true
- Updated some art inconsistencies
- Improved some language layout issues
- Finishing the SIns of New Wells chapter puzzle now should give the achievement (revisiting it should trigger for those who missed it).
- Fixed the mixed name and surname slots in Unravelling recollection puzzle in most of the translations.
- Added Japanese community translators to credits.
- A number of minor content fixes.
We have pushed out a new update, containing the following improvements:
- Numerous text tweaks in all 12 languages, thanks to your feedback.
- Option to move phrases by clicking instead of dragging.
- Ability to zoom into text in close-ups (we introduced this in the previous patch, but forgot to document it!).
- Better controller support. Now, the settings menu contains controls mapping information, and there are button prompts when the game detects a controller.
- Fixed Z-ordering bug that sometimes made collected words visible through menus and puzzle panels.
- Improved visibility of certain hotspot highlights.
- Some puzzles now accept alternative words as correct, to reduce the number of cases in which the player has figured out the answer but is deemed ‘wrong’ for using the unintended word.
- Basic mod support, which allows for easier extending of the game with features like fan translations.
Current Release
Not available
System Requirements
How to Install
setup.exe
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
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4.3 GB
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