Sherlock Holmes Chapter One on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is a detective, open world and story rich game developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on November 15th 2021 is available only on Windows in 16 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.

It has received 3,566 reviews of which 2,803 were positive and 763 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 44.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 8.76€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Sherlock Holmes Chapter One into these genres:

Detective Open World Story Rich Mystery Action Choices Matter Crime Adventure Action-Adventure Investigation Atmospheric Combat Exploration Third Person Multiple Endings Narration Psychological Thriller Emotional Drama

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64bit
Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 28 GB available space

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Feb. 2025

This is the definition of a game that didn't need to be open world. This is the first ever open world game in which I completely ignored every side mission because I saw no reason to do them. Additionally, a Sherlock Holmes game shouldn't have third person shooter combat. All that being said, if you just do the main cases, you will experience an enjoyable and unexpectedly touching story. At first I was skeptical of the concept of a Sherlock origin story, but was then happily proven wrong. Without giving away too much, it gives flaws to a character that is usually depicted as being perfect. I would, however, like to see this new Sherlock design experience total twink death

Jan. 2025

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It's just gameplay # It's interesting at the start, but then the novelty wears off. You run around and search. Finding all the coins were a bit annoying, especially when I had to follow the moon phases. ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☐ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy # All you do is find places to click, then click on it and find intel. You might to use some brain work to arrive at a conclusion at times. ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good # Your choice doesn't affect the story, so that was a bit of a flop. I would've preferred not to have the option to choose at all and instead have Sherlock telling me what he thought. ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☑ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Sept. 2024

If this is your first Sherlock Holmes game, then do not buy it. "Crimes and Punishments" or "Devil's Daughter" is better choice. And for other Sherlock Holmes games enjoyers this is a good pick with a discount. Game adds open world and combat. Both are questionable additions, that I didn't liked at first, but they grow on me. City is beautiful, each district in different and unique. Exploration only yields new sub cases. Apart from that there is literally nothing to do in it. Combat is strange, but enjoyable in its own way. It can be skipped and there is no mandatory combats. Cases are downgrade from other games. Despite the amount of cases, dev went from quality to quantity. Only the main cases have access to "Mind Palace", while sub cases have 1 conclusion. Main cases now have vague endings where you don't know if its the right choice. Its the my main problem with the game. Feels like dev's don't have the balls to say which choice is the correct one, so they blur the endings to make you feel like you made the correct choice and to not "offend" or "hurt" people who made the wrong choice Main story and Sherlock's companion Jon are both good and enjoyable.

Aug. 2024

It was a good play. Make sure you buy this ON SALE because the main story is really short, I had more fun with the side quests/cases. If you are playing this now or planning to purchase, just one tip; after finishing the "Sacrificial Lamb" main story case, make sure you go and complete all side quests/cases because once you return to stonewood manor, it's the ending. You will have to load your manual save, if you were able to do that, or else the game will just load your last auto save which is in the mind place of "A Mother's Love" last part, the ending. ALSO, there's action on this one! Gun fights on some cases and all bandit lairs. I hated it, I can't arrest them all, I end up killing a lot of them. So I had help every time, it's so frustrating! BUT I am still recommending this game. I love solving the mysteries, the side stories are good too, graphics is beautiful, and eavesdropping was funny. WARNING for "The Muse from Abroad" case, it's not very graphic but the story is not for the lighthearted. THE ENDING. I was happy to see the real John and the imaginary Jon gone.

April 2024

I’m recommending this game only for longtime fans of the series to see how the gameplay has evolved and to experience the start of the new direction Frogwares is taking. However, the game has many cons: - The fictional setting of Cordona, albeit beautiful, feels fake and unreal. - Sherlock looks and dresses like a Final Fantasy character. - Sherlock having an imaginery friend feels awkward. - The open world is devoid of interaction. - The open world stutters on my high-end machine. - Many cases are missable if you do not happen to randomly stumble upon them. - Having to pin evidence becomes tedious and feels unneccesary. - Once you complete the game you cannot return to the open world to complete incomplete cases or discover new ones.

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