I just finished Case of the Golden Idol and loved it. What are some similar games where the gameplay is more about deduction than pixel hunting? I've played Return of the Obra Dinn (which was also phenomenal), which is the closest thing I could think of. I also recently played Painscreek Killings, which is a different style, but still a detective game. Any suggestions? Or can we talk about this game?
Since this shit won't get any responses, I'd also like to say I enjoyed the pajeet DLC, even if it was really short. It was a frickton more difficult than the base game.
>What are some similar games where the gameplay is more about deduction than pixel hunting?
Obra Di—
>I've played Return of the Obra Dinn
Fug.
If you don't care about gameplay you could try mystery VNs like Phoenix Wright. Not a lot of games scratch that Obra Dinn itch the way Golden Idol did.
Yeah, the artstyle wasn't as good as the base game but the mysteries were great. Despite it being way too short, I'm hopeful for another DLC.
Phoenix Wright is one of my favorite franchises, so I've played them all. I also did Danganronpa, except I still haven't finished the 3rd one.
Pls respond.
I have nothing to say but saw a friend play this game for 2 minutes so I will bump your thread out of an odd sense of familiarity.
Thanks, anon.
It's on GOG Games and it's small enough to download in one file.
can you repost the mega again i lost it
Danganronpa
Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishment
I haven't played any Sherlock Holmes games, but they seemed to be obvious choices. I just thought they were all more point and click adventures than more about the deduction.
frogwares did one point and click (maybe 2) sherlock game but even that one (which is on steam) had deduction elements. I'd say the most deductivey frogwares gets is Jack the Ripper, but Testament and Crimes and Punishment are both really good. The latter being their best game imo. None of which is really point and click since you can use a controller since Testament iirc.
Chants of Sennaar is coming in september 5th
Has anyone played Strange Horticulture? Is it similar?
isn't that like an adventure game rather than puzzle mystery
seconding an opinion, saw this one mentioned in one of these threads.
also recommending quern.
it's more of a myst-like but there's plenty of deductions to be made
It's a good game but not really similar, the puzzles are more about matching a plant to it's book entry and descriptions.
Most of the people taking about it here are just ragebaiting because of the yuri in it, but unless you have a rabid aversion to it, that's a really solid game.
I hate yuri and I still loved it because its romantic themes, such as they are, are tasteful and universal. Anyway it's hardly in the foreground of the whole experience
yuri's fine, if the gameplay is not cancer, the mistery is good and the atmosphere is great i'll play it
it wasn't well thought out, it was only mildly difficult in a few places, most of it is just clunky design. The premise is great, it just doesn't really deliver. I definitely wouldn't consider it to be anything more than a casual puzzler on par with find all the cats games.
Obra Dinn and Golden Idol both stand alone. If there are other great deduction games like these, I'd love to hear it but I doubt there are.
maybe not 100% on topic, but opinions on pic related?
seemed like it was very FOTM but i didn't read many threads.
loved outer wilds and tunic if that helps
>similar games where the gameplay is more about deduction than pixel hunting?
Does Hypnospace Outlaw count? Anyway Golden Idol was pretty cool, at least the main story. The DLC was kind of annoying and I haven't finished it yet, don't know if I will.
>The DLC was kind of annoying and I haven't finished it yet
i literally just finished it, i liked it, but there's a small plot point that annoyed me, specifically regarding who knew about the location of the idol
i mean, i pieced it together but i had to rely on the clues of the thinking panel.
why does the priest and his son know about it specifically?
The DLC was short and I liked that it explained where the idol came from and hinted towards the conspiracy shit in the main game. I didn't really like the not-India theme though. The music kinda grated on me.
case of the golden idol made me feel like a genius for a while
Chants of Sennaar isn't coming out for another month but it's about deducting a language from context clues and using it to figure out the rules of a hierarchical society and solve puzzles. It has a demo if you're interested.
>chants of sennaar
Sounds like an rpg maker game by a 15 year old, all that's missing is to subtitle it
>chapter 1: tears fall under the sun
Because obviously at age 15 you have the first 3 games mapped out and all summer to make it.
Bad title aside, the premise sounds pretty interesting.
Just downloaded the demo, thanks.
Sounds interesting, will give it a look
Played a game similar to this, called "7 days to end with you". A fun experience, definitely will check this one out
Or you can play any game for kids in a language you're learning for the same experience.
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get CONTRADICTION, absolutely KINO FMV game with fun gameplay where you show off contradictions in things ppl said/items you found
Made by Tim Follin of all people.
Did you ever play Spycraft: The Great Game?
Frick I remember that thing. It was like 7 discs. Played it at a friend's house and had no idea what the frick was happening.
also check out GREYHAT, the premise is hacking but it's all logical deduction and works like golden idol for the most part, regularly like 80% off during major steam sales
I thought the base game was too short for the price, but the dlc helps. Liked it a lot more than Obra Dinn.
>Liked it a lot more than Obra Dinn.
Really? The story was more engaging, definitely, but I loved Obra Dinn. Some of the deductions in that game were pretty fricking harsh though, making it much harder than Golden Idol.
Different anon but while I loved Obra Dinn, the lack of "fast travel" of sorts made is such a chore to go though. If you needed to backtrack to look for clues in a previous death it could take forever depending on how many hops were required, and all transitions are painfully slow.
Contradiction
Outer Wilds
Eyes of Ara
Obduction
Myst series
Paradigm
Antichamber
NORCO
Unavowed
Hauma
Harvester
Some of these are a bit more point and click but you'll get there. There's a bunch more.
I thought both Tangle Tower and Unheard were pretty neat.
A couple of these look really good. Thanks guys.
>golden idol
i need more it scratches my detective itch too good
I guess I can reverse shill Painscreek Killings, if you're looking for a first-person detective game. You play a reporter where you go to an abandoned town to try to solve a murder that happened awhile ago. There's a lot of secrets and you use an in-game camera to take pictures of shit to help you remember what you read in journals or whatever. It has a moronic ending scene though.
i hope book of hours is good
cultist sim was ok but man i hated the realtime clock you had to stay ahead of at all times, made it stressful when i would have preferred comfy
I got to the last chapter on Switch and when I logged in to play the next night all of my saved data was wiped and the game was reset. I found out this was a known bug that was supposedly fixed in an update, but I was playing on that update. I had to go back through and fill everything in. Almost completely ruined it for me. Not sure if my save is still intact but it seems you can't do the DLC unless you beat the base game. Anyway, heads up on that.
That sucks but to be fair, even if everything gets wiped out you can just look at a guide and 100% it again in like 5 minutes.
>you can't do the DLC unless you beat the base game.
That seems kinda ass backwards, considering it's the prequel to how Oberon got the idol. I had the option to choose the DLC game on the main menu as soon as I started playing, but never clicked it because I wanted to finish the main game first.
The base game basically has a bunch of tutorial levels to get you familiar with the game, if you start with the DLC you'll get assfrick difficulty right out of the gate, so that's probably why it's locked.
> I also recently played Painscreek Killings, which is a different style, but still a detective game.
No it isn't. You just follow a breadcrumb trail composed of keys and diary entries that spoonfeed what happened until you get to the end. It has the appearance of a serious detective game by giving you an open-world to explore and the camera to capture clues yourself, but in reality it's very linear and makes you solve mostly isolated puzzles that don't have anything to do with the case.
I'd have to replay it, but I thought there was a bunch of things you could miss. Most of them are inconsequential, but there was shit like the time capsules that I don't think have to be opened for the main murder. Finding out who killed the lady was only a small part of the overall mystery. But yes, I do remember it being pretty linear and being annoying that every fricking door in the game lets you interact with it, but only 4% of them can be opened.
I got you, OP
TRVE DETECTIVE:
- return of the obra dinn
- the case of the golden idol
- unheard
- keyword: a spider's thread
- her story
- lucifer within us (although it's not that good & very short)
arguably detective games:
- outer wilds
- hypnospace outlaw
- the forgotten city
- phoenix wright ace attorney (only the court scenes)
- overboard!
- sherlock holmes: crimes & punishment
- the painscreek killings (not imo, see )
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, those games might be good in their own right, but most of them are definitely not detective games
There's the Agatha Christie Hercule games but those are lacking a bit (a lot) in the deduction department. Especially the newest one.
Unheard: Voices of Crime is pretty damn deductive since you are listening to crime scenes. pretty fun.
L.A. Noire, sort of. I'm sure you've played it. It's more detective sim than relying on deduction.
aside from the frogwares Sherlock games, we really don't have much.
I feel like a moron because I didn't realize who Lazarus was until the second to last chapter. The name should've made it obvious enough, but I kept wondering when Edmund was going to show up since he survived the attempted robbery.
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Here are two options nobody mentioned, which you can probably run.
Discworld Noir
and
Blackwell series games (Wadjet Games got bunch of different adventure games)
Now,if you want something really obscure, and on win95,you got this. I actually got it in pack with a Mummy game that plays the same.
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ghost trick
Not a deductive game at all but it gets an honorable mention for being the first "find a corpse then travel to right before it died" game
well, all deducting happens behind the scenes, by you trying to figure out what's happening in your brain
if you can't call it a deduction game, you can't call any detective novel
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Extra recommendation for Outer Wilds
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1082930/The_Signifier_Directors_Cut/
This isn't like those games, but as an investigative thriller I thought it was really well done. I wish the VR version was on PC