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The sequel to 2022's best murder mystery game is better, weirder and more grotesque than ever

Eurogamer got an early peek at the Steam Next Fest demo for Rise of the Golden Idol and our impressions are hot off the press.

As we unravelled the tangled history of the double-crossing Cloudsley family, we poked around stuffy country manors, dingy, candlelit inns, blood-stained beaches, and hallowed cult chambers in our search for the truth, gradually picking up clues in the form of names, nouns and verbs to work out whodunnit and why in each deadly tableau. Developer Color Gray Games has given it a gorgeous glow-up in the process, too, its gurning grotesques taking on fresh, animated life as they choke, gasp and dab insincere handkerchiefs to their eyes as we find them yet again in media bloody res. These single scene deaths soon give way to more complex settings, though, and by the end of the first chapter, you'll be piecing together clues across three separate interconnected rooms as you try and read between the lines of a (definitely not fact-checked) press conference, body-strewn morgue and a cushy executive office.

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