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Games like The Case of the Golden Idol

Color Gray Games · 2022 · 98 % positive of 8,616

24 games that play like The Case of the Golden Idol and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: The Rise of the Golden Idol, Detective Grimoire and Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments.

Player tags

  • Mystery
  • Detective
  • Investigation
  • Puzzle
  • Conspiracy
  • Story Rich
  • Point & Click
  • 2D

At a glance

What games like The Case of the Golden Idol have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Case of the Golden Idol: Mystery (23 of 24), Detective (21) and Investigation (15).
  • They came out between 2009 and 2024, 5 of them after The Case of the Golden Idol (2022).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Detective Grimoire (95 % positive of 2,157).

By gameplay

Plays like The Case of the Golden Idol

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt71 % positive of 317Shared: Mystery · Puzzle · Story Rich
  2. Jenny LeClue - Detectivu87 % positive of 1,309Shared: Mystery · Detective · Puzzle
  3. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter79 % positive of 13,788Shared: Mystery · Detective · Investigation
  4. Post Mortem56 % positive of 405Shared: Mystery · Detective · Investigation
  5. A Detective's Novel67 % positive of 882Shared: Mystery · Detective · Adventure
  6. For Your Tranquility67 % positive of 177Shared: Mystery · Detective · Investigation
  7. MAKOTO WAKAIDO’s Case Files TRILOGY DELUXE82 % positive of 225Shared: Mystery · Investigation · Story Rich
  8. Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders81 % positive of 2,831Shared: Mystery · Detective · Investigation
  9. Crime O'Clock70 % positive of 416Shared: Mystery · Detective · Investigation
  10. Lamplight City89 % positive of 761Shared: Mystery · Detective · Puzzle
  11. CaseCracker291 % positive of 614Shared: Mystery · Detective · Puzzle
  12. Midnight Mysteries68 % positive of 172Shared: Puzzle · Point & Click · Adventure

By look

Looks like The Case of the Golden Idol

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Lamentum88 % positive of 726
  2. Alone in the Dark 191 % positive of 400
  3. No Turning Back: The Pixel Art Action-Adventure Roguelike53 % positive of 255
  4. Guard Duty90 % positive of 251
  5. Crawl94 % positive of 7,039
  6. Photographs84 % positive of 160
  7. CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut92 % positive of 1,476
  8. The Count Lucanor93 % positive of 2,693
  9. The Last Door - Collector's Edition94 % positive of 2,333
  10. Crossing Souls78 % positive of 1,480
  11. Hylics98 % positive of 6,696
  12. Alum70 % positive of 186

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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