History VideoGame / TheCaseOfTheGoldenIdol

** The game has a mode (enabled by default) that puts a gold star over all the important details you need to see so that the player doesn't have to pixel hunt. It also puts a red star over clues that you've already seen after you've seen them.
** If you missed looking through an item's description or subsection (ex: a person's inventory with multiple objects) the game will still display a gold star over it so the player doesn't miss it or can return to it later if they want to look at something else.
** The game keeps a notepad below of all the important names, places, verbs, etc. that the player has collected. It also lets the player organize them however they want in that area so, for example, you can put the first and last names of characters next to each other.

** If you have most of slots correct and two or less wrong, the game will tell you "two or fewer slots are incorrect."
** During Case 11 and the Epilogue, the game will let you visit previous cases without having to return to the Scenario Selector, which is helpful since they have so many callbacks to previous cases.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The mechanic of the game is that the player investigates a frozen instant occurring just before or after a person's death to find out what happened.

** The game has a mode that puts a gold star over all the important details you need to see so that the player doesn't have to pixel hunt. It also puts a red star over clues that you've already seen after you've seen them.

** The game keeps a notepad below of all the important names, places, verbs, etc in a magnetic bulletin board. It also let's you organize them however you want in that area so, for example, you can put the first and last names of characters next to each other.
** The names, places, verbs, etc are all color coordinated as well as the fill-in-the-blank sections so players don't spend too long trying sentence combinations that don't make sense.
** If you have most of slots correct and two or less wrong, the game will tell you "two or less slots are incorrect."

* TheReveal: At the end when it is revealed that Lazarus Herst is really Edmund Cloudsley who used the idol to de-age himself.

January 5, 1742. Albert Cloudsley and Oberon Geller agree to split the treasure from their expedition to [[Literature/TheMonkeysPaw Monkey Paw]] [[Main/ShoutOut Island ]]. What happens next leads to a treacherous tale that changes the course of human history.

The gameplay is split into two sections, exploring each case for clues to put in your notebook and thinking where you fill-in-the-blanks to try and figure out what happened.

** If you have most of slots correct and two or less wrong the game will tell you "two or less slots are incorrect."
** During Case 11 and the Epilogue, the game will let you visit previous cases without having to return to the Scenario Selector which is helpful since they have so many callbacks to previous cases.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of them. I challenge you to name one that wasn't.
* FeaturelessProtagonist
* [[GemEncrusted Gem-Encrusted]]: The Golden Statue has a gem on the front that changes color.
* RedHerring: Every level has wrong answers designed to confuse the player except for the Epilogue.

** As mentioned above, Monkey Paw Island is a reference to [[Literature/TheMonkeysPaw The Monkeys Paw]]
** The mermaid carrying a spear at the inn is likely and reference to [[VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn Return of the Obra Dinn ]]
* [[Main/MysteryFiction Whodunit]]: Also, a Whatisthecontextbehindhowandwhytheydiditinthisstory.

* Whodunit: Also, a Whatisthecontextbehindhowandwhytheydiditinthisstory.

** The mermaid carrying a spear at the inn is likely and reference to [[VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn Return of the Obra Dinn ]]

* Gem-Encrusted: The Golden Statue has a gem on the front that changes color.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Most of the characters figuratively stab someone in that back at some point.

** During Case 11 and the Epilogue, the game will let you visit previous cases without having to return to the Scenario Selector which is helpful since it has so many callbacks to previous cases.

** During Case 11, the game will let you visit previous cases without having to return to the Scenario Selector which is helpful since it has so many callbacks to previous cases.

** A mermaid carrying a spear is likely and reference to [[VideoGame/ReturnOfTheObraDinn Return of the Obra Dinn ]]

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: All of them. I challenge you to name one that wasn't.

** During Case 11, the game will let you visit previous cases without having to return to the Scenario Selector which is helpful since it has so many callbacks to previous cases.

** If you have most of slots correct and two or less wrong the game will tell you about it

!!''The Case of the Golden Idol'' blackmailed us into displaying the following tropes:

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January 5, 1742. Albert Cloudsley and Oberon Geller agree to split the treasure from their expedition to [[Literature/TheMonkeysPaw Monkey Paw]] [[Main/ShoutOut Island ]]. What happens next leads to a treacherous tale that changes the course of human history.

January 5, 1742. Albert Cloudsley and Oberon Geller agree to split the treasure from their expedition to Monkey Paw Island. What happens next leads to a treacherous tale that changes the course of human history.