# The Case of the Golden Idol — user reviews > 94 indexed App Store user reviews of The Case of the Golden Idol by Netflix, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 158 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-case-of-the-golden-idol/id6450277430/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-case-of-the-golden-idol/id6450277430.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 143 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 4 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 4 ## What do users think of The Case of the Golden Idol? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Engaging and challenging puzzles - 💡 Clever and original gameplay concept - 🎨 Beautiful and stylized artwork - 🕵️‍♀️ Intriguing and well-written mystery story - 🧠 Encourages logical thinking and deduction **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches, including text/grammar issues - 🔌 Performance and stability problems on some devices - 📱 Difficult to read small text on mobile screens - 🕹️ Lack of customization options (e.g., font size) **Commonly reported bugs** - Progress loss/reset issues - Incorrect puzzle solutions revealed prematurely - Placeholder text and misaligned UI elements **Most requested features** - More episodes/cases to solve - Ability to hide interaction indicators - Improved cloud/save system stability ## Newest reviews (19 of 94) ### 5/5 — One of my favorite games ever, with one huge caveat… *2025-03-29* The last puzzle of the Lemurian Vampire DLC has a huge and very frustrating typo that makes the solution for the first scroll much harder to get. In these types of games, you want the player to be able to fill in the puzzle the second they put all the pieces together. The rest of the puzzles do a great job of that, this one is unnecessarily frustrating. On top of that, I spent a lot longer with scroll #4 than I needed to because I had the right answer but the game wanted me to phrase it in a different way. Besides that unfortunate bit of frustration near the end, this is a must play. It’s got one of the most engaging stories I’ve ever played with each chapter escalating it in a completely shocking way, and the puzzles all feel so satisfying to solve. I can’t wait to see where this franchise goes! ### 5/5 — On another level *2025-03-06* The game is amazing. Great story and relevant to our times when authoritarianism and greed threaten the world. The characters are all sociopaths and you kind of cheer when one of them dies. It actually takes thought to figure out each chapter. The artwork is fun, too. This game's only flaw is its Netflix requirement. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2025-02-13, version 1.4* Eases you in gently then cranks up the difficulty. Brain taxing and fun. ### 2/5 — Un bon jeu, si on arrive à le faire fonctionner *2025-02-11* Ce jeux est la suite de « the rise of the golden idol » qui lui est codé correctement. Cette version s’avère pratiquement injouable sur iPad, trop lourd, trop lent et qui plante régulièrement. C’est dommage, car l’histoire semble plus convaincante et plus difficile avec la limitation à 3 vérifications des erreurs (attention !). Je m’accroche pour avancer quand même. ### 5/5 — so good i had to leave a review *2025-02-06, version 1.4* for those of you who always dreamed of doing detective work — this is ur dream come true. fellow logicians, rejoice, for its actually kind of hard???? astounded at the illustrations and plot development. i’m having so much fun. thank you devs for a beautiful, brilliant experience! ### 5/5 — Look past the art and enjoy and incredible mystery *2025-02-05* I love the setting, the puzzles, and the plot. I didn't love the art, but after awhile it disappeared and I was absorbed by the world and figuring out the blanks. The puzzle system doesn't hand you the answer, but is pretty good at giving you the information you need. There's a puzzle system that first tries to get you to solve on your own and eventually gives really good hints. I think I used one hint throughout the game, but I'm huge on solving things myself. Highly recommended! (I played on PC with a gamepad, but I assume the iPad experience is similar or better with touch.) ### 5/5 — Molto intrigante *2025-01-27* All’inizio sembrano eventi sconnessi tra loro, alla fine invece c’è una narrazione collegata con dettagli e misteri anche molto complicati alle volte che intrattengono molto. Le ambientazioni anche mi sono piaciute molto, e devo dire che tutti e 3 i racconti seppur il primo sia il migliore, intrattengono molto. ### 5/5 — Sounds and Music don’t play! *2025-01-26* This is a great game but Music and sound do not play on iOS 18!!! Please fix it! Edit: the music plays! You just need to deactivate the silent mode of your iPhone or iPad ### 5/5 — Such a clever and original idea *2025-01-26, version 1.4* I really enjoyed this. A lot of playtime, I loved using my brain rather than it being a straight forward point and click. Between this and the sequel, I spent a good couple of weeks on these games. Can’t wait to see what the developer does next! ### 5/5 — ❤️‍🔥 *2025-01-24* Muito cativante! Amei cada puzzle! ### 5/5 — Excellent game and perfect fit for smartphones *2025-01-21* I’d already played the main story on PC and was pretty stoked to find the Netflix version had all the DLCs included. Playing it on phone is an even better experience than PC. We really need more point-and-click games ported to smartphones The game itself is outstanding. A couple of cases are tricky, but nothing so hard/obscure that one needs hints or guesswork. ### 5/5 — So much fun! *2025-01-20, version 1.4* Decided to download this using Netflix as the art style looked nice and I love Professor Layton style click & point puzzle games. It went beyond my expectations! It was so fun, beautiful artwork, good music, entertaining plot line, and most importantly genuinely intriguing and rewarding puzzles!! My whole family are playing now. Thanks so much, onto the next app, Rise of the Golden Idol! ⚱️ ### 5/5 — Very addictive! *2025-01-04, version 1.4* Challenging and very enjoyable! ### 5/5 — Must try experience *2025-01-03* This games brings the feeling of finding a crime scene. But deducing the motive, the suspect, and the victim all by yourself. Try the game you will not be disappointed. ### 5/5 — amazingly detailed *2025-01-02* so full of details. every single chapter has a full map and unique characters. the storyline is so fun to watch play out. 10/10 ### 4/5 — Performance issues *2024-12-29* Very slow and sometimes crashing on iPad 6. ### 4/5 — Nice game, but texts are hard to read *2024-12-20* The game story and mechanics are really nice. However some texts have too tiny letters and there is no way to increase the font size nor zoom, often it is too hard to read 🙁 ### 5/5 — Un gioco intrigante *2024-12-15* Non sono solito scrivere recensioni, quindi per farlo vuol dire che il prodotto mi ha colpito particolarmente. Finalmente ho trovato un gioco intelligente, che fa lavorare la mente in modo sano, se cercate un gioco d’azione non è questo il titolo che fa per voi (anche se l’azione c’è, bisogna solo scoprirla), ma se cercate un giallo ben strutturato con enigmi da risolvere davvero con il ragionamento allora siete nel posto giusto. La soddisfazione di chiudere un caso, soprattutto se lo avrete fatto senza usare alcun suggerimento come l’ho concluso io, è davvero appagante e le trame, mai scontate, non hanno buchi e permettono di arrivare al risultato sfruttando la memoria e l’intuizione. Da giocare, o almeno da provare, dategli una possibilità, non ve ne pentirete! ### 5/5 — 10/10 *2024-11-29, version 1.4* The best puzzle game I’ve ever played. Only half way through and already downloaded the sequel! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Problemass no jogo *2024-12-30* Ao tentar jogar a terceira parte de “O vampiro lemuriano”, o aplicativo fecha. Tentei voltar diversas vezes, mas em menos de 10 segundos na fase ele fecha ### 1/5 — Lost all progress - just like on this review. *2024-07-30, version 1.0* Have already written one review on this which has mysteriously disappeared. Clearly developers dont ike anyone giving this game any less than five stars. Well I’d give it 0 stars if I could! Spent HOURS on this game only to revisit it the next day and find out that all my progress has been wiped! Am definitely deleting this game to make sure I don’t make the same mistake of playing it and losing everything all over again. ### 1/5 — Why on earth must I sign into Netflix *2024-07-12, version 1.0* Not happening ### 1/5 — Fantastic game, broken save system *2024-07-10, version 1.0* Love the game itself - exactly what I had hoped if would be. Unfortunately, the game’s cloud saving breaks half the time, actively losing me progress from multiple consecutive play sessions. I often play on a train with occasional cell drops, so I’m guessing this is an issue with resolving save conflicts between cloud and local. ### 1/5 — La musica non funziona *2024-07-04* Ho provato su ipad e su iPhone ma la musica non si sente ### 1/5 — Bug in the 4th case *2024-06-25, version 0.9* 4th case: Filled out all names in the Card Game tracker. Should be Annie Green for all AG, but one isn’t for some reason. Checked PC/steam version to make sure. Checked the hint system and it said Annie was wrong for the middle game, but no other option works. Don’t let bugs ruin such a great game. Will remove negative review when fixed. ### 1/5 — Wait for update, too good to be bugged *2024-06-20* Great game, but don’t waste your time until they iron out some bugs. Sometimes you can do everything right and not get credit for it, which is the only feedback/dopamine hit in the game. Again, this is worth playing one hundred percent, but hope you dont like knowing whether your tenuous chain of logic is frail or not. **Developer response:** Hi jc, thank you for your detailed feedback. We're glad you enjoy the game and apologize for the bugs you've encountered. Please try updating the game for the latest fixes. If it continues, please contact player support via the in-game button or at https://help.netflix.com/en/contactus We appreciate your patience and support! ### 1/5 — Sound doesn’t work *2024-06-19, version 0.9* Fix please! ### 1/5 — Error code 7006 *2024-06-17, version 0.9* As above ### 1/5 — Identification impossible *2024-06-14* Donc impossible de jouer ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amazing Game!! Need more! *2025-05-24, version 1.4* I’m a third of the way through and I’m finding it very hard to put the game down. It has a brilliant story and the puzzles are the perfect difficulty. I was not expecting to love this game so much however, just as in UnusualAlbatross’ review, I’ve noticed some errors and spelling mistakes. I’m playing ‘in the web of the spider’ and in the last sentence it’s missing the word ‘killed’ before ‘Kirthi Bandara’. I was confused for ages because I couldn’t work out what I was doing wrong. Without the word ‘killed’ the sentence didn’t make sense. I needed to look up a walkthrough. I ended up finding more mistakes, particularly in the very last case. Again, I had to look up a walkthrough because the grammatical errors meant the puzzle made no sense. Please fix it because I want to give the game 5 stars. ### 5/5 — Incredible ending!! *2025-05-15* Through the game, you think you’re solving individual puzzles with some lingering elements and characters here and there between levels. Towards the end of the game thinks start to come together and you learn more about the recurring characters and the mysterious golden idol. At the end, everything comes together in such an incredible way that ties up all the loose ends from previous levels. I was shocked how well they pulled off the final reveal. I LOVED this game and am super excited to start the DLC and the sequel. ### 5/5 — Keeps you thinking *2025-05-06* I wasn’t sure what I was getting into, having never heard of the game before. But it is a great epic story that you have to unfold through deduction and looking for the important clues. Definitely recommend ### 5/5 — Simply Spectacular *2025-05-04* I have never written a game review before, but this little game simply blew me away. Not your typical mobile game, this game actually makes you think and reach your own conclusions. You have to piece together the story for yourself which makes for an a really rewarding experience. The story is in the details, which in the end all come together to wrap the story together in really unexpected ways. Could not recommend it strongly enough ### 5/5 — enjoyable *2025-04-30, version 1.4* devoured the mystery in two days and now on to the prequels. ### 5/5 — Defines the puzzle game genre *2025-04-24, version 1.4* Peak. This game’s intricately stylised art style, incredibly interesting and intriguing story and masterfully crafted innovative and challenging deductive puzzles are top-notch, and this and its sequel are possibly the greatest puzzle games ever made. The dark, gruesome setting puts you into a detective’s shoes to use your intuition in supreme adventures of crime. The expertly made logic puzzles are great at making you think, and creating an unparalleled satisfying moment when you solve them to solve the overarching mystery of cults, murder and mysterious magic artefacts. This game, as well as its DLCs with even better and more difficult puzzles, with detailed self-contained stories, truly create an unmatched experience. If you still have any doubt about getting it, just trust me when I say this: Play. This. Game. ### 5/5 — A unique experience *2025-04-19, version 1.4* This game is satisfying and a very unique experience. I preferred playing on iPad rather than phone to see more details. I love the way the cases all connected. I highly recommend ### 5/5 — Best puzzle game ever *2025-04-10, version 1.4* Absolutely loved this game. Could not put it down. This game was soo addictive and the story is so well connected throughout the chapters. It’s super important to remember and recall faces, facts, and the conclusion of each chapter. Please make more of these games ### 5/5 — freakinged so good *2025-03-31, version 1.4* love it ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2025-03-31, version 1.4* Jeez, this game is awesome! 100% recommend! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*