The Rise of the Golden Idol picks up two centuries after the Cloud­sley family’s grim fate, weaving a fresh detective saga around the lost artifact’s dark legend. You’ll oversee twenty eerie cases—murders, conspiracies and occult misadventures—that stretch from smoky discos and psychedelic retreats to shadowy labs full of fax machines and parapsychological experiments. As whispers of the Idol resurface, disparate forces—an obsessive treasure hunter, a cabal of self-help cultists, ambitious corporate fixers and earnest scientists—vye for control of its mysterious power.

The Case of the Golden Idol is a captivating detective adventure set in the 18th century, inviting players to step into the shoes of a determined investigator. Tasked with solving twelve peculiar deaths spread across fifty years, the game challenges you to reconstruct each crime scene methodically to identify suspects, determine motives, and pinpoint the murder weapon in a series of intricately interwoven cases.