Beloved Murder Mystery Game The Case of the Golden Idol Gets PS5 PS4 Ports Next Week
Out on 23rd July.
The highly regarded mystery game The Case of the Golden Idol will make its way to PlayStation next week as PS5 and PS4 ports have been confirmed to be releasing on 23rd July 2024. Using point-and-click gameplay, you'll solve a series of murders across 50 years of history using your deductive skills to fill in the blanks. Check out the trailer above for more context.
The game has already been available on PC for almost two years, where it garnered critical acclaim with a Metacritic rating of 84 — the Nintendo Switch port received a 93. Eurogamer concluded: "Witty, observational writing and a hands-off approach to deduction elevate this excellent period murder-mystery to a singular work." The Guardian said: "Genuinely new and inventive forms of play are relatively rare in video games, a medium that more often trades in refinement than revolution. Which makes this even more thrilling. Its puzzles are inventive, but so too is the way they must be solved, allowing both a trial-and-error approach and pure deductive reasoning."
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