
From developer Color Gray Games, The Case of the Golden Idol is an 18th-century murder mystery


From developer Color Gray Games, The Case of the Golden Idol is an 18th-century murder mystery


Though the expansion launched with bugs, High School Years is still worth it


It felt nostalgic, like playing a video game sitting next to a friend, taking turns flipping the manual pages back and forth. It felt like making notes in those margins, circling hints and clues to come back to later. Sometimes, it was utterly surprising. A person found something so bizarre, unlike anything I'd seen yet in this world - and it flipped the game upside down. There's the community aspect to the language, too: Little bits open up as others present theories and translation methods, each pulling a different piece of information into the puzzle. When someone makes even the tiniest breakthrough, it feels unreal.



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