The Case of the Golden Idol coming to Switch on May 25
Due out alongside downloadable content "The Spider of Lanka."
Publisher Playstack and developer Color Gray Games will release mystery adventure game The Case of the Golden Idol for Switch via Nintendo eShop on May 25, the companies announced.
The downloadable content “The Spider of Lanka,” which will launch for the previously released PC (Steam, Epic Games Store, GOG) version on the same date, will also be available for the Switch version at launch.
Here is an overview of the game, via Playstack:
About the Game
The Case of the Golden Idol is a narrative detective game set in an alternate 18th-century England where players must investigate 11 most strange and gruesome deaths spanning forty years. Something awful connects these tragedies, providing a wider mystery for the player to unravel.
Optimized for Switch
Each case is presented as a snapshot scene frozen in time. Players can freely search through these scenes in whichever fashion they choose to deduce the suspect, motive, and chronology of events. The player’s theory is then placed into an interactive notepad, which in turn will inform the player whether their theory is correct or not.
For Switch the user interface has been overhauled to provide the best user experience when using the Switch in both handheld or docked mode.
Downloadable Content “The Spider of Lanka”
With three brand new scenarios to untangle, the recently released downloadable content “The Spider of Lanka” offers players additional scenarios for devious and diligent detective work, using their deduction wits and observation skills to solve even more challenging murder cases.
“The Spider of Lanka” begins in 1741, one year before the first scenario in The Case of the Golden Idol. The new story follows Albert Cloudsley and Oberon Geller on their maiden voyage to the fictional Kingdom of Lanka, as they visit [REDACTED], the Raja whose Priest has some startling information concerning the location of a [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED], apparently [REDACTED] [REDACTED] to turn [REDACTED] into [REDACTED].
Watch a new trailer below.