The Case of the Golden Idol gets its first expansion next week

After a tease last week, developer Color Gray Games has announced an expansion for The Case of the Golden Idolone of the best games of 2022. It’s called The Spider of Lankaand it adds three scenarios to the nuclear murder mystery game, which the developer says are the “most challenging” yet.

You can join on May 4 for $5.99, and the basic game is required to play the new cases. Interestingly, the expansion is presented under the banner of “Golden Idol Mysteries‘, perhaps indicating there’s more to where this comes from. Yes please.

Golden Idol Mysteries: The Spider of Lanka is an origin story set a year earlier The Case of the Golden Idol begins. In true form for the game’s fill-in mechanics, much of the developer’s press release has been redacted. It does, however, indicate that you’ll be following Albert Cloudsley and Oberon Geller, the first characters introduced in the game’s prologue, on their journey to the fictional kingdom of Lanka as they meet a high-ranking priest to investigate, well, probably the Golden idol.

Perhaps it’s best that we all jump into the expansion knowing as little as possible. But there’s a trailer above if you understandably want to see the game’s oddly enticing (and unsettling) art style and animation used in even more colorful set pieces.

The Spider of Lanka coming to Steam, the Epic Games Store, and GOG.com on May 4. As noted earlier, you must own the $17.99 base game to play it.