The Case of the Golden Idol was designed by Andrejs and Ernests Kļaviņš. The gameplay takes a lot of inspiration from Return of the Obra Dinn (easily one of my favorite games of the last decade) and I’ve heard nothing but good things about it.
My Space Quest replays continue this week with Space Quest III, this time for DOS! I’ve actually never played this version—I’ve only played the Mac version, which, uh, kind of ruins the graphics a little bit. So I look forward to seeing it in proper EGA at the intended resolution, with Bob Siebenberg’s score in wonderful MT-32 audio. This is probably my favorite Space Quest, so I hope you can join me for my first playthrough in many years!