This walkthrough covers the base game’s prologue and five chapters—not the separately listed Detective Pass or other DLC investigations. The game’s official Steam listing describes 20 connected cases. Choose a case below to jump to its solutions, and use the hint before opening a full answer if you want to preserve the deduction.
Spoiler note: Case answers and story conclusions are spoilers. Each case is arranged so you can stop after its hint or continue to the solution.
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How to use this walkthrough
The Rise of the Golden Idol is an observation-and-deduction game: inspect a scene, collect words, and use them to explain what happened, why, and who was responsible. The official description emphasizes freely exploring crime scenes and reasoning from clues; GameSpew describes the practical loop as investigating marked details and dragging collected words into deduction tasks. Steam’s game listing also identifies the game as a follow-up to The Case of the Golden Idol.
- Inspect every marked detail, including objects inside other objects. A missed word can prevent a task from being completed.
- Use the contents list to go directly to a scenario. Check whether the puzzle asks you to identify people, reconstruct an event, or complete a chapter conclusion; those tasks use different kinds of answers.
- For a lighter nudge, read only the hint and return to the game. Reveal the full solution only when you are ready.
GameSpew advises using solutions sparingly because working through the puzzles yourself is part of the experience. Its walkthrough and Pro Game Guides’ walkthrough organize the game by prologue and chapters, with named scenarios and chapter conclusions.
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Contents
The available guide material confirms the prologue-and-five-chapter structure, but does not provide a complete, verifiable answer set or the full scenario-name sequence. Rather than invent case titles or word placements, use these source guides to locate the scenario you need:
- GameSpew: chapter and scenario walkthrough
- Pro Game Guides: prologue and Chapters 1–5
- Steam Community guides, including player-created hints and solutions; these are community resources, not official documentation.
Prologue and Chapters 1–5
The game is presented as 20 connected cases. The sources identify the prologue and five chapters, and describe walkthroughs with named scenarios and chapter conclusions, but the retrieved material does not establish each scenario’s exact answer words. Since a single wrong name or sentence blank would make a purported solution misleading, this page does not supply unverified placements. Open the matching chapter in one of the linked walkthroughs, then use the game’s own scene evidence to check each answer.
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- Package Includes: Features 125 game cards–each featuring a uniquely-terrible description of a movie. Includes instructions for two distinct ways to play (competitive & casual). Suitable for 2 to 8 players.
- Perfect for parties: Brass Monkey’s “Poorly Explained Movies Game” is the perfect party game to make sure everyone has a great time, bring it to your next college dorm game night, happy hour, or even bachelor/bachelorette party and see for yourself.
- Gift Ideas: Ideal gift for birthdays, graduation, holiday gifts, and Christmas
Base game versus DLC
This walkthrough’s scope is the base-game campaign. Steam lists the Detective Pass and separately named investigations, including The Sins of New Wells, The Lemurian Phoenix, The Age of Restraint, and The Curse of the Last Reaper. Those add-ons are distinct from the prologue-and-five-chapter base-game structure, so a base-game solution list should not be treated as a complete DLC answer set. See the Steam store page for its separate DLC listings.
Quick Recap
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- Adds a fifth player
- New Civilizations, new Wonders, new Future Technology, and a whole new deck of Culture cards
- The challenge to reach for The Golden Ages is more exciting than ever
- Package Dimensions: 31.75 L x 4.318 H x 23.876 W (centimeters)
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- Light strategy game. Play as a stand-alone game or mix with other Funkoverse games.
- Includes: 2 playable maps - The Golden Girls' Home and the Florida Boardwalk, as well as 2 exclusive Funkoverse Pop! Game figures.
- Suggested for ages 10 years and up.
- Number of Players: 2 Players
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