We didn’t start the satire.

I can switch between two modes, Exploring and Thinking, which are both fairly straightforward to pick up.

What kind of objects is the pusher carrying that might suggest his identity?

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There are strange cults, accidental poisonings, and simmering glints of a working-class uprising.

Everyone is a suspect, especially where money and power are involved.

Everyone loves to make fun of bureaucratic procedures and banal forms of record-keeping.

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Case of the Golden Idol review - several odd-looking characters sit on the shore of a lighthouse island with discarded masks on the floor

Case of the Golden Idol review - exploring the countryside, a pop-up shows a tatoo of a palm and an eye on a person’s back

Case of the Golden Idol review - a popup over a room full of people shows an edition of the London Gazetteer with a story about the Order Party coming to power.

Case of the Golden Idol review - two people, a chair and the golden idol fly away from a desk in a kind of explosion freeze-frame

Case of the Golden Idol review - a busy screen of text on the left to be filled in, identities in the middle, and evidence on the right, with a range of words to choose from along the bottom

Case of the Golden Idol review - three panels on the main menu display three options of things to explore