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The Case Of The Golden Idol

Developer Color Gray Games

Publisher Playstack

Format PC

Release October 13

Any detective story worth its salt needs a good villain, and this clever, complex and exuberantly macabre tale from Latvian brothers Andrejs and Ernests delivers a veritable rogues’ gallery. From scheming aristocrats to their unscrupulous cohorts, these are ugly people inside and out: jowly and bloated, or pinched and sinister, they’re memorably drawn in every sense. There’s barely anyone who look like a potential suspect – another essential ingredient of a good detective story. It helps that they’re so memorable, since several of them resurface – not always under the same name – throughout a tale that spans four decades and over a dozen

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