The Testament of Sherlock Holmes on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!

The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is a adventure, detective and point & click game developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on September 20th 2012 is available only on Windows in 16 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Czech, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil and Ukrainian.

It has received 3,556 reviews of which 2,838 were positive and 718 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • OS *:WINDOWS XP SP3/WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7
  • Processor:AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2 GHZ
  • Memory:2048 MB RAM
  • Graphics:256 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 AND SHADERS 3.0 COMPATIBLE ATI RADEON HD 2600 XT/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GT OR HIGHER
  • DirectX®:9.0c
  • Hard Drive:14 GB HD space
  • Sound:DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE

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April 2025
It may not be perfect or groundbreaking, but it’s an adventure game with a surprisingly engaging story. If you're a fan of the genre and can overlook some clunky controls and dated visuals, it's a solid experience worth checking out.
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Feb. 2025
I was able to finish the game without any crashes! maybe because I have a potato pc at the moment :D I found the gameplay mechanics a bit rigid in my opinion for a detective game, everything is almost focused on interacting with the environment with very little thinking and deduction. The story is interesting and coherent but you have to try to finish the game quickly otherwise you lose the course of events. There is a lot of puzzles too much maybe.. and sometimes they are frustrating and you don't understand what to do to advance without any hints..and if you dont want to use the concentration mode you will loose a lot of time, but overall it's not a big problem. I liked this opus but clearly it's not the best of the series. 6/10
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Sept. 2024
It's not much, but it's honest work Pros: - Its a Sherlock Holmes game, the lore is amazing - The amount of puzzles Cons: - Moving around sucks, there's no fluidity at all - Puzzles sometimes can be too hard For a 2011 game it's a nice experience, relaxing and easy going.
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May 2024
One of my favorite stories in the Frogwares Sherlock Holmes series. This is my fourth time playing through this game (as I originally played it on PS3 back in the day), and it feels so natural to play on PC. If you're looking for a Sherlock Holmes game, this is a great option, especially if you don't have a super modern PC with the specs needed for, say, Chapter One. (For people buying the game nowadays, I will give one warning: the PhysX driver downloaded with this game is outdated and won't work when trying to boot up the game. You will need to go to the PhysX website and download their newest driver.)
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May 2024
TLDR; The game is pretty good :-) and the puzzles are hard but almost universally fair. You play as Sherlock Holmes as well as a number of supporting characters (including the best 'good nose' of London, the dog Toby) and use your logical and analytical skills to find your way through devilish puzzle contraptions, classic adventure game item combination tasks and actual detective work, with the three about evenly split. The game starts of very strong and mostly keeps up both pace and stakes throughout the adventure, only the final sections are somewhat of a letdown. And the ending is a bit weird, but that will not ruin the fun in any way for you. Note that this is a purely linear story, one big and quickly escalating case with many moving parts. It is an original one too, not a re-telling of events from some novel or book by Doyle. And overall, it is pretty good with only a few bizarre transitions that are so typical for adventure games. Still, execution is not flawless. Visually, the game is a treat if you play it on PC where you can actually get a fluid framerate as opposed to the console versions. Controls are a bit stiff but since its not an action game, that does not really detract much from the experience. One thing you must be comfortable with is the actual SEARCHING involved in this game, you are expected to actually investigate the 3D world in great detail and look at a lot of stuff very closely. The scenes are expertly set up, with each item and set-piece, as well as its state and position, being relevant to the case or at least giving you sense of what happened before (which is, as said, often relevant to find those elements you need to interact with). Do not underestimate this. Adventure fans craving for a challenge, buy! Others, take care!
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The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
7.7
2,838
718
Online players
11
Developer
Frogwares
Publisher
Frogwares
Release 20 Sep 2012
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