Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
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Crime O'Clock is a hidden objects investigation and time exploration game with a deep storyline. Investigate cases through time and evolving maps by unveiling a multi-eras linked story. Will you be observant enough to solve the mysteries? Crime waits for no man!
Crime O'Clock is a investigation, hidden object and 2d game
developed by Bad Seed
and published by Maximum Entertainment.
Released on July 21st 2023 is available on Windows, MacOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.
It has received 416 reviews of which 293 were positive and 123 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.7 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 1.95€ on Steam with a 90% discount, but you can find it for 1.13€ on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+)
- Processor: Dual-Core 1.8 GHz or higher
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Video card with 1024 MB of VRAM or higher and DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
MacOS
- OS: 10.13
- Processor: Apple Silicon, x64 architecture with SSE2.
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs
- Storage: 3 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
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For the longest time I was hesistant of whether I should recommend this game. The enjoyment factor was constantly hovering around "tolerable", and I mostly got around to the endgame due to having promised myself to play it through. Then at the aforementioned endgame arrived and the game suddenly changed itself to a version where my basic question was "Why wasn't the game like this the entire time?". Anyway: if I were to compare this game to any other activity I'd compare it to picture books such as Full Moon Soup and A Street Through Time, where each spread depicts the same scene, only time has passed and you can look around the scene and see what has changed and from that reconstruct the stories being depicted. This game has five different scenes that are each depicted in ten different ticks, equivalent to five picture books with ten spreads each. The actual gameplay consists of a narrator delivering narration of a Something that has happened where the objective is to identify what Something has happened and how to resolve it, all to retain the True Timeline. This works by you being asked to find the relevant thing on the picture, once you do, the narrator either changes tick and asks you find the next relevant thing, or lets you play a minigame to identify key data. The minigames are not fun. The challenge level is so low that I can only assume that they are not actually there to work as a challenge but to let the player feel like they are doing detective work, i.e. to be immersive. After a while I started groaning as soon as I realized a minigame was coming up. Only in the minigame that was battle against rogue AIs were there any challenge, but there the challenge was that I couldn't understand what on earth the logic was to defeat the rogue AIs. You had a bunch of symbols to match against the opponent and it felt like it was mostly a guessing game which symbol to use. Speaking of the rogue AIs, the story is that you are an operative trying to prevent the aforementioned rogue AIs from destroying the True Timeline. It was functional, though I was never engaged since I never got convinced why destroying the True Timeline would be such a disaster, and while the story got another objective eventually it was carried with so little gravitas that I didn't engage with it. Speaking of the story: they do not shy away from advanced vocabulary. The overall depiction of the various murders and other crimes in the game is decidedly of the safe-for-all-ages-variety. The story itself: safe as well, but I worry the word choices would be too much for children to grasp. One moment that struck out to me was when the game requested that I (using a minigame within the hidden object game) construct a Faraday cage. What child in the intended demographic of this game would know what a Faraday cage is? All of the issues above is why I hesitate to recommend this game, but then we get to the endgame. I believe it was only unlocked after the storyline of the game was finished (I might've misunderstood a symbol though), but this endgame illustrated what was missing. You get a list of characters and are in control over which tick to look at and are asked to find the characters over the ten ticks, and in so doing reconstruct a ministory. And this is what it should have been the whole time. None of the insipid minigames, no overwritten narration, just doing the equivalent of flipping pages back and forth and seeing what happens. See, over the course of the game there were several moments where I thought "Huh, this person did [this-and-that] at this tick and then [that-and-this] at this tick; it looks like there is a story here.", but since the only way to change tick was to resolve the challenge at hand and then the game decided what tick to turn to, there was no opportunity to do any exploration on my own. Giving me that control actually let me find the stories, even stories not presented as a challenge to the player. And since several characters was presented at once as the people to find if I found one of them while looking for another I could change the challenge and therefore get to feel clever and not get bored if one character was particularly hard to find. Who do I recommend this game to? As I said, I didn't find the main story interesting but a child might be wowed enough by its themes that the presentation of the story is not a drawback. Since it used quite advanced vocabulary I suspect this could work as a bonding activity between parent and child.
100% Crime O'Clock on 7/27/2024. Pretty fun "where's waldo" style game, where you solve crimes. One of the fun mechanics is that it gives you hints for what you are looking for but not specifically an image, so you have to use those clues to find the criminal and then track them backwards through time to find a good spot in the timeline to stop them from ever committing the crime. Sadly, the developers made some gameplay decisions that slow down the entire gameplay loop and causes it to drag on a bit too long (ie, random minigames between findings which are boring and tedious, or animation loops that can't be skipped).
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Frequently Asked Questions
Crime O'Clock is currently priced at 1.95€ on Steam.
Yes, Crime O'Clock is currently available at a 90% discount. You can purchase it for 1.95€ on Steam.
Yes, Crime O'Clock received 293 positive votes out of a total of 416 achieving a rating of 6.71.
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Crime O'Clock was developed by Bad Seed and published by Maximum Entertainment.
Yes, Crime O'Clock is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Crime O'Clock is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Crime O'Clock is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Crime O'Clock is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Crime O'Clock is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Crime O'Clock does not support VR.
Crime O'Clock is a single-player game.
No, Crime O'Clock does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Crime O'Clock does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Crime O'Clock does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Crime O'Clock is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Crime O'Clock.
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Last Updates| Steam data | 20 September 2026 12:30 UTC |
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| SteamSpy data | 07 October 2026 10:45 UTC |
| Steam price | 12 October 2026 18:29 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 09 October 2026 09:50 UTC |
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Developer
Bad Seed
Publisher
Maximum Entertainment
Release
21 Jul 2023
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