The Rise of the Golden Idol

An exceedingly vast improvement to its predecessor game: Case of the Golden Idol. There is an abundance of content to be played and Rise of the Golden Idol does a particularly great job with its storytelling! Having played the previous game isn't necessarily a requirement to be able to enjoy this one, BUT I will at least say that playing it DOES make some moments much more gripping as you take your own detective-journey through the events that take place in this game. Should you decide to buy the DLC for this, I would say HIGHLY recommend making sure you play through Case of the Golden Idol first. Buyer be wary, though, as certain parts of the DLC are WAY... I don't want to say 'tougher' but I don't want to say they feel like complete leaps in logic either... but I'd also say these moments are in the vast minority in the DLC. Just know that if there's a couple of points where you feel stuck, you're not alone. I can't stress enough how interesting the lore of this series is. It's to the point where after having played through all the content I STILL feel the urge to make an unhinged diagram to puzzle out interconnected details between stories. It really takes you for a wild ride!

A genuine blast and big improvement over the already great Case of the Golden Idol (more fun and polished art, better UI and UX that gets less in the way of the art and makes the process of solving the puzzles faster and more convenient, and stronger writing that emphasizes characters even more). It's an absolute joy to piece together seemingly unrelated events throughout multiple points in history and slowly gain an understanding. The puzzles are varied, and entirely solvable - even if occasionally they might seem overwhelming at first. And if you're ever stuck, the hints in the game work well. Great game to play with a partner, too! PS: The "Detective Pass" DLC is an essential purchase alongside the main game - not that it doesn't stand alone well or get a proper resolution to its story, because it does! - but it just expands the world of the game wonderfully and adds so many more delightful brainteasers.

Beautiful game my fav <3

The Rise of Golden Idol is a fantastic continuation of the series! My favourite part of Golden Idol series is this crazy stylish artstyle with beautiful backgrounds and weird characters. The music is also great and puts you in the right mood to investigate. The best part of the game are, of course, puzzles. In comparison to the first game puzzles became more intricate, more difficult and more diverse. Some of them are tedious and hard to understand even with the hints. I'm not a native english speaker so there is always this thing with the games like this where I can't figure out if I'm wrong or if my english is bad. But that didn't soar my overall impression of the game. It's great and I enjoyed every mystery that was in the story (I also played the additional content in Detective Pass). The Case of Golden Idol (the main game, not DLC) is still in my opinion better in balancing story and puzzles without complicating everything, but I definetely recommend The Rise of Golden Idol!

Great game! Congratulations to the developers!

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. The 4 DLCs were much more difficult than the base game and they really make you pay serious attention to the details (which made the game much more intriguing). Imho the Reaper had the best plot out of the four. Hope there will be more DLCs to come.