Two Games Are Available Today With Xbox Game Pass (July 9)

The Case Of The Golden Idol looks horrible. Looks like an old Amiga game, and that's being nice.

@johnK Absolutely brilliant puzzler, though. I suspect the intentionally jarring ugly Amiga style was inspired by Return of The Obra Dinn's 2-bit Macintosh inspired look, what with that being the game's biggest influence.

@johnK hey now don't you be doing the Amiga dirty like that it has better looking games than this.

I guess this is one of those games that content / story over aesthetics but damn it's rough on the eyes.

Not that I ever see myself trying it (or Cricket 24 for that matter.)

@RiverGenie As a Amiga 500 & 1200 owner (don't let that be a judge of old old I am!) i was going to say like a Atari ST game but felt that would have been too low an insult.. 😛

@johnK
Same. 🤭 I had an Atari STE, then an Amiga 500 then 1200. Ahhh, xcopy pro....

@TheOldHunter4K I started with a Atari 800XL, missed the ST as the Amiga has superior graphics at the time.

Graphics whores will miss out on a great game if they don’t check out Case of the Golden Idol. 98% positive on Steam with 5,000+ ratings. It’s a fun and surprisingly difficult mystery puzzler.

@themightyant True (to a point), but as pointed out, i'm a Graphics whore.

The Case Of The Golden Idol is a lot of fun

Even my plasma TV can’t hide the lack of polish of the graphics… I did enjoy the first case but was very basic… I am going to relegate this to my one achievement a day reward game…

@awp69 yup shame us for using our own criteria to decide what games we like to play. And we commented about the game not the people who decide to play it, you not so much and went straight to childish name calling.

If folks enjoy this game then have at it and I hope you have fun

Steam rating show the game has a following but so what. I mean Taylor Swift has a huge following as well but I wouldn't want to go to one of her concerts either.

Different strokes different folks etc etc

@RiverGenie I wasn’t even referring to anyone specifically in this thread. I even consider myself a graphics whore most of the time. It’s just a generic term a lot of people use. All I was saying is that it would be a shame for people to miss it. Not to be using “childish name calling”. If you notice my comment was talking about the game people would miss.

Everyone is entitled to their own game choices. This one is a good one IMO.

Graphically I would place Golden Idol squarely between Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, so roughly 1990 graphics.

Once again more trash nobody wants to play. Game pass needs to step it up and I know the fanboys who defend them will hate my comment but that just proves me right

I don’t know if I’d ever get around to playing it but The Case of the golden Idol looks great

I downloaded Golden Idol, which looks like an engrossing game for my upcoming day off. I might try the cricket one (let’s see if we get a summer at some point!) but it’s quite a tricky sport to make a decent game of.

Really excited to play golden idol