Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
- September 29, 2014
- Frogwares
- 15h median play time
Rough around the edges, and some bad puzzles, but this is an atmospheric detective adventure that actually lets you do some detecting.
"Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments" is a single-player, open world mystery game with an interesting plot and marvelous gameplay. As the famous detective, you must solve six varied cases, making moral choices that affect the game's outcome and your character's reputation. Featuring awesome graphics, stellar music, and a good atmosphere, the game is full of humor but can also have bugs.
Reviews
- story472 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 64 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- gameplay411 mentions
- 35 % positive mentions
- 63 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- graphics341 mentions
- 58 % positive mentions
- 40 % neutral mentions
- 2 % negative mentions
- atmosphere83 mentions
- 64 % positive mentions
- 36 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- music59 mentions
- 49 % positive mentions
- 47 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- replayability45 mentions
- 24 % positive mentions
- 64 % neutral mentions
- 11 % negative mentions
- optimization28 mentions
- 29 % positive mentions
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- funny27 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
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- grinding26 mentions
- 8 % positive mentions
- 12 % neutral mentions
- 81 % negative mentions
- stability20 mentions
- 5 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
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- character development9 mentions
- 56 % positive mentions
- 44 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- emotional5 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
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- ads1 mentions
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Critic Reviews
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments Review
Overall, this is the best Sherlock Holmes game we've encountered and a very auspicious debut for the consulting detective on Switch. This is far from a lazy downgrade, with developer Frogwares presenting a full-featured and compelling experience from start to perhaps-too-soon finish. It looks great and plays brilliantly, with only occasional annoyances and some weak (though thankfully skippable) puzzles to knock it down a peg. The fact that the game is willing to allow you to get it wrong means it feels less prescribed and inevitable as other titles in the detective genre, and that's quite refreshing. A little ironic that it took one of the form's oldest characters to finally land such a novel approach.
80%Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments Review
Overall, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is good. It's intriguing and quite easy to get swept up in. There are always things to do, and before you know it, you've spent three hours in a timespan that felt more like one. Sure, the game has issues, but they're not impossible to overlook in favour of the more thought-through aspects. Crimes & Punishments is one of the better, if not the best, Sherlock games out there, and if that's not saying much to you, it's also one of the better investigation-style games. The balance and variation of gameplay should be applauded. The developers are definitely onto something here.
70%Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments Review
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments dazzles visually, but disappoints with murky conclusions to its cases.
75%
