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.
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 6,990 reviews of which 6,290 were positive and 700 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 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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This game gave me some real L.A. Noire vibes - there's many similarities - and as that's one of my most favourite games of all time it's only natural that I enjoyed this too. There's six unique cases and you get to choose to Condemn/Absolve the suspect(s). There are a few other choices you can make throughout the game. There's many different and unique mini games which you can skip if you want. The interactions between Holmes and Watson can be hilarious. Overall, I found it to have fun gameplay, a great soundtrack, voice acting and graphics. The setting being in 1800s London is of course 10/10 and gave me some Jack the Ripper vibes. There's some replay value. And of course there's brave Toby, the best nose in the British Empire! The only things bad I could say really is that it crashed randomly a handful of times and also the game didn't seem to give you enough concrete evidence to be 100% sure of who the right suspect was to arrest - you really have to become Sherlock in some ways I guess. But that doesn't stop you from progressing the story so it's not the end of the world. There's also the fact that most of the outfits/hair styles and such are locked until after you have completed the game. Highly recommended if you're into Sherlock Holmes, enjoyed L.A. Noire or are simply looking to solve some unique crimes and mysteries of varying complexity.
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š„š„ Masterpiece of Sherlock Holmes games šµš»āāļø It's is a sophisticated Holmes game in many aspects. šYou will gather clues through many investigative methods, like people-watching, interrogation, disguise, forensics, searching for documents, and careful observation. š”Once you have collected the clues, you can assemble a hypothesis and make a deduction, but it is very easy to understand because the hypothesis you have derived and what conclusion you can reach when you combine each hypothesis are displayed graphically. š§ You don't have to build it in your head like a general deduction game, so it's easy to think logically. It is also interesting that even if you have one hypothesis, you can draw a completely different conclusion if you change the interpretation. šAnother feature of this game is that it is entirely up to the player to decide who to accuse as the culprit and what punishment to inflict. š¼ļø šØThe graphics have also evolved considerably, so I would like you to see how it turns out. In particular, there are productions that may have been influenced by the drama "SHERLOCK", and they have succeeded in presenting information in an easy-to-read manner. š§ The difficulty is not hard due to the friendly and easy-to-read things. šIt's a great game whose fun lies in its difficulty and the clues it gathers about the people and places you visit, worth a try.
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