Ever since Return of the Obra Dinn in 2018, something has been broken in me. That game is amazing, one of my all time favourites, but it's also completely unreplayable, as most detective and puzzle games are. I've been trying to recapture that magic ever since, but the state of detective games as a whole is usually pretty poor - either they're insultingly easy, providing cereal box puzzles that don't actually feel like detective work, or they de-emphasise the actual deduction and make it into an infrequent gimmick. Finding a good successor hasn't been easy… but now I have hope again, because of the lightning in a bottle that is The Case of the Golden Idol.
