Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is a detective, adventure and mystery game
developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on September 29th 2014 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Turkish.
It has received 7,122 reviews of which 6,412 were positive and 710 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 29.99ā¬ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
- Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ
- Memory: 2048 MB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE AMD RADEON HD 3850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GTS OR HIGHER
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 14 GB available space
- Sound Card: DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE
- Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION
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Sherlock Holmes Crimes and Punishments Review Pros: [*] Lovely, cosy Baker Street apartments. [*] Exciting to find all possible clues. [*] Let's me act as Holmes. This is why I love gaming. [*] Excellent voice acting by all the characters. [*] Excellent facial animations. [*] Helpful hints for solving cases along with mechanisms for hunting for clues. [*] The game does what it focuses on really well. Cons: [*] Game gets stuck and crashes at the end of each episode. [* ]Some case conclusions are a bit obscure. [*] Some of the mind mapping connections can be brute forced. [*] Only 6 cases, wish there were more. [*] Almost all the cases are related to murders, perhaps a robbery or embezzlement case would have added more variety. Advice: [*] When the game gets stuck and crashes at the end of each episode, close the game process using task manager and restart the game. Game will proceed from the start of the new episode. [*] All clues should be blue and point in the direction of the final conclusion. That's the way to identify the correct resolution. Come Watson, the game is afoot! Overall Score: 9/10 + 1 for Sherlock Holmes bias.
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If at first you don't succeed... I've started this game three times. The first time, well over a year ago, I got side tracked and lost my place in the story. The second time, I did not update the mind palace incrementally and ended up with so many pieces of evidence that I could not make sense of it and gave up in frustration. The third time, I changed my approach and finished the game. Woohoo! Not much I can add to the thousands of reviews out there. However, I now see the attraction of the Sherlock Holmes franchise. As you play multiple games in the series, you start recognizing characters and references to past cases which provides a nice sense of coming home to a familiar place. Everything about this game is top-notch. The characters, the writing, the voice acting, the artwork, the game-play, and the sound are excellent. Some dialog can be skipped through while some requires you to listen completely before regaining character control. Crimes and Punishments is a multi-case game featuring Sherlock, Watson, and Toby (the dog). We complete 6 investigations in diverse environments with a host of puzzles/mini-games. I found the puzzles to be straightforward and fairly easy. However, linking evidence and reaching conclusions was not 'elementary' for me. I still find the mind palace (the interface for organizing evidence) to be a challenge. My strongest advice is to link evidence 'as you go' rather than waiting. This way, you are working with a manageable amount of 'loose ends' that are still fresh in your mind. Even so, certain conclusions may block other conclusions. For example, if you accept the guilt of one suspect too early, you may eliminate the possibility of exploring conclusions about other suspects. This is partially offset by the flexibility of the mind palace which allows you to store conflicting conclusions without finalizing them. In addition to auto-save, the game lets you save at any point which is quite handy and allows you to circle back for missed achievements without replaying the entire game. Most achievements were story-related but there are some that can be missed and several that are achieved by actions that span multiple cases. Completionists may want to review the descriptions of achievements before proceeding. The environments are also a bit tricky. There are items which can be examined but do not activate until specific actions are taken or other items are examined. This means that you often need to circle back through a room more than once to finish your investigation. Luckily, the individual environments are not large and the game tells you when you have found everything. I also struggled a bit with the 'imagination' interface which you use to visualize/recreate a suspect's actions. The concept is not hard but the mechanics were a challenge for me (knowing when and where to click for selections). I should also note that the game has quick time events but the time allowed was reasonable and the keys tended to repeat themselves (so no big surprises). There are two tricky sections (arm wrestling and a rope bridge) that I was unable to accomplish with a keyboard and mouse. I switched to a controller for these two brief segments and both were much easier to complete. All in all, this is a terrific game for those who like to deduce their way through a well-crafted adventure. I highly recommend it! If you have not played a Sherlock Holmes game before, you might start with an earlier title to build the backstory (although this game stands on its own).
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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is the first Sherlock game I played and is part of the reason Iāve become a Sherlock fan, to now Iām even reading the books. As I understand, this game was the first in the series that moved more towards the player making connections and deductions to solve the cases. There are still some puzzle like the older games, but thatās not necessarily the main gameplay. You play through 6 independent cases as Sherlock Holmes and get to experience his methods (like his impressive knowledge of tobaccos) and drama, plus some goofiness from seeing his disguise table. Each case can take around 2 hours to explore and solve. There are 25 achievements, which are relatively straightforward and were fun to get. A few of them are missable but itās not bad. YOU GET TO PLAY AS TOBY. Really good game, I would and have recommended it before.
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Overall: B++ Enjoyable? Yes Replayable? Yes. I want to revisit some of these cases and explore the rest of the series Recommendable? Yes. Keep in mind that this genre is not for everybody TO AVOID SPOILERS, DO NOT VIEW ACHIEVEMENT LIST!!!! +Great introduction to the puzzle/adventure genre +mystery, crime, detective, investigation +story richāmultiple cases, all interesting, and vary enough so that it doesnāt feel repetitive +interesting characters, character chemistry and dialogue +choice matters +lovely graphics +atmospheric +immersive +exploration -mini games are as good as they are bad -over arching story -some voice acting could seem a bit silly (Holmesā and Dr Watsonās are superb!) -I would have loved to play in third-person pov but Sherlockās arms swing unnaturally while walking. It is very distracting š
ā¢Solve crimes by: interviewing witnesses, observing suspects, interrogating suspects, gathering physical evidence (could involve revisiting the crime scene multiple times), autopsies, etc. ā¢As Sherlock Holmes, your deductions are taken as facts and the story continues regardless of whether or not youāve concluded ācorrectlyā (who would dare protest Mr Holmesā conclusions, anyway!) ā¢You can see if you convicted the right suspect at the end of each case, though that is optional (you are warned that it may spoil game experience) I waited till the very end Steam Deck compatibility: ā
Case statistics do not show Occasional lighting bugāno major hindrances
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Despite being a 10 year old game, this has held up pretty well. The story and cases are pretty solid; there's only one case that felt a bit lacklustre (5). The minigames can be slightly tedious at times, but they're all skippable. It is definitely replayable as well. There are a few cons, one being that the puzzles are a little too easy to figure out, but I can understand why that is. The other is the constant fast-travelling. The game isn't open-world, so you have to constantly fast travel to places, which can be annoying. As an example, in case 6, you get the objective to visit a pawnshop. You go there, examine a few things, then you're told to visit the crime scene again. 2 minutes later, you're told to go back to the pawnshop to get the items you examined. The Sherlock series in general is super underrated, but this is a great game that I really enjoyed. I recommend this not only to Sherlock fans but also to anyone interested in a fun detective game :)
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