Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008) on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.

Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008) is a adventure, lovecraftian and detective game developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on August 06th 2009 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Polish and Russian.

It has received 790 reviews of which 582 were positive and 208 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008) into these genres:

Adventure Lovecraftian Detective Point & Click Mystery Puzzle First-Person Investigation Horror Third Person Singleplayer

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP, XP64
Processor: 1.3 Ghz
Memory: 512 Mb
Graphics: 32 Mb

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Jan. 2025

A fun adventure game. Lots of interesting and fairly challenging puzzles. Game obviously involves Sherlock Holmes, but the twist is that it features Lovecraft mythology. The two settings do fit quite well together. Though Holmes and Watson are a fair bit more sarcastic and witty compared to the average Lovecraft main character, I think they still manage to fit well into the setting, or lovecraft fits well into Sherlock's setting. Ultimately it was a fun story to take part in, and the game provided lots of little bits of background info you will read about and that all does a good job of building atmosphere. The puzzles as I mentioned are fun and engaging. Some are a considerable challenge too. If you can manage to solve every single one without the use of the hint system, you are big brained. Those who are not the biggest brainiacs, like myself, there is a pretty good hint system. Per puzzle, or activity you have to complete, the game provides a number of hints. Each time you click the hint button, you receive a clue, and every subsequent click, the clue becomes much more specific. So you can use as many or as few to figure out how to complete whatever it is you need to solve. You can navigate in first person or "third person mode". The third person mode is a more typical point and click view. I mostly used first person mode, as to me it was the most comfortable way to go through the levels. Either way, it was nice to have the option, as I would on occasion switch up the view. I found the third person view would help when trying to locate a specific object or location to interact with. It will angle the camera to a set area, rather than the 100% free range of motion the first person view provides. The game ran fine for the most part despite the reviews. Using Proton it booted up first go and I had no issues running it, benefits of not using winblows I suppose. I did run into one rather annoying glitch. Essentially softlocked me.. Despite the game telling me I needed to go to a specific location, any time I would attempt to travel there, Holmes would run through a bit of dialogue saying how important it was for us to travel to that location, then nothing would happen. Saw a few other people in the discussions with a similar issue, and the workaround was to download a save file at the place I needed to travel to. This solved my issue (if this happens to you too, make sure the save file is for the Remastered version of Awakened 2008, otherwise the save seems to be incompatible.). Though I am still not sure if this happened because I missed one specific object on the map or not. Oh well, I will only find out if I replay this game in the future. Anyway, good game, do buy. Also, remember to SAVE, there are fail-states.

Jan. 2025

these older games are great for the price (if it's your thing), but the lack of cloud storage really sucks if you use more than one PC

Jan. 2025

This game can be complicated if you don't know what you are doing. There will be very little hints you get through out the game, but the rest is where you must figure out yourself, OR search up for answers if you are stuck and can not progress. Rather than that, everything was alright. I liked the story but the graphics were not the best. Game did come out on 2008, so can't really complain... Hopefully it will have a remake one day. If you are Sherlock Holmes fan and don't mind the nerve racking game like me, then this is for you.

Sept. 2024

Much better than the previous installments of the series. In fact, I would suggest starting with this one. +/- Controls are MUCH better than previous games but still clunky and obtuse. +/- Music is still very repetitive, but some new tracks for the darker parts of the game add some needed spice. + Sherlock is still a little annoying, but he no longer tries his best to be hated by the player. + The nature of this mystery really feels like a match for Holmes and Watson: an intelligent duo encountering the unknown and still coming out the victors.

Aug. 2024

A very nice palette cleanser after the previous Frogwares Sherlock games. The controls are much easier to handle, the inclusion of a first-person perspective really helps. The game also had (this is quite subjective but I’d still like to mention it) a much more interesting story with fun characters compared to the previous instalments. The puzzles were nice and I really like the inclusion of a sort of fast travel mechanic and a strategy guide to help you out. Massive improvement and (in my opinion) the first real game of this series.

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9.99€

7.1

582

208

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Developer

Frogwares

Publisher

Frogwares

Release 06 Aug 2009

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