The Case of the Golden Idol Review (EndarkCuli)
This is, in my honest opinion, one of the ideal investigation games, alongside works like "Return of the Obra Dinn". It's not what I would call a traditional "mystery" game; you're not cross-examining witnesses, there are no mini-games for fingerprint dusting or cipher decoding, and your investigations aren't saving the day (in fact, you're not a character in the setting at all, just an observer and chronicler of events). However, in every absurd scenario, from a seemingly spontaneous combustion to a politically-authorised execution, you're still looking for clues to figure out what exactly happened, who all the major players are, and how it all ties back to the Golden Idol, resulting in a grand narrative with various interconnected people and events. Despite dealing with supernatural phenomena, there's always at least one way, and usually more, to logically intuit every solution; monogrammed items in people's inventories, family trees and crests, tagged items and the positions of people during rituals, so on and so forth. If you're fond of a challenge, I for one felt that the difficulty curve was just right, steadily presenting more complex scenarios and asking the player to deduce more minutiae tied to the cause of someone's recent death (such as where on a map the crime occurred, or what the symbols on the Golden Idol actually do in order to describe how it was used in a crime). And on the other side, if you're more of the "randomly guess solutions until the game lets you continue" type, there's plenty of helpful interface tools to help narrow down your guesses, such as color-coding every term learned so you don't mix up important names, titles, actions, and objects, and a lovely hint system that helps point players in the right direction instead of just spitting out answers without the necessary context to figure out the others. The pixel art is incredibly detailed, the overarching narrative is intriguing yet knows when to add some levity, and the price is fair even without a Steam Sale going on.
In conclusion, for games like this, I would fight a tiger and win.