The game is afoot
Playstack and Color Gray Games’The Case of the Golden Idolis heading to Nintendo Switch. The detective game will arrive on Nintendo’s handheld console next week on July 22, 2025.
Both the base game and the recently released DLC,Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka, will be coming to the Switch eShop.The Case of the Golden Idolwill go for $17.99, whileThe Spider of LankaDLC will cost $5.99.
Publisher Playstack has put up a trailer, showing a little bit about what the game’s about and how the Switch version will handleGolden Idol.
The Case of the Golden Idolis a detective game where the player is taken through a series of vignettes. Each one centers around a gruesome death, as well as a golden idol that seems to be causing quite a ruckus. The player has to observe the scene, pulling keywords from text and other sources to then fill in answers about what’s happened.
Whodunnit?
Color Gray Games’ mystery has some clear similarities to games likeReturn of the Obra Dinn. It’s pretty open in terms of letting the player try, fail, and try again to solve the mystery, but having a definite set of options and clear framework might help less investigatively-inclined folks solve their way through it.
I playedThe Case of the Golden Idollast year in a Discord server with friends, and I can’t recommend that format enough. It’san enjoyable gameto think through and solve together, and the revelations you uncover case-over-case are pretty great. The art style ofGolden Idolis also unlike most other games out there; initially, I was a bit hesitant about it. But over time, the look ofGolden Idolgrew on me. I haven’t played theSpider of LankaDLC yet, but it’s good to see this team is still exploring the world and structures it built forGolden Idol.
