A picture can paint a thousand words, but what if you only needed a few correct ones? That's the concept behind both the original The Case of the Golden Idol, and this new standalone sequel, The Rise of the Golden Idol. Presented with moments of disaster frozen in time, it's up to you to deduce what's happening, and what led to the moment in question.
Set in an alternate history similar to but not quite like our own, The Rise of the Golden Idol moves on from the 18th century to the 1970s. Gone are boats and carriages; replaced by a groovy world fuelled by TV, paranoia, drugs, and a vastly uneven and cruel class system. You're a kind of omnipresent and unexplained detective that's capable of rummaging around scenes to your heart's content to solve each case. Usually a violent act has occurred, and you're able to go through people's pockets, eavesdrop on bits of dialogue, and peer at anything that takes your interest to find out what's happened.
