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Embark on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on this surprising and elastic point-and-click game. Grab, pull, and release to help them solve a bizarre investigation full of humor and meta-time travel!
Crushed In Time is a adventure, point & click and 3d game
developed and published by Draw Me A Pixel.
Released on June 10th 2026 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 10 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 1,354 reviews of which 1,219 were positive and 135 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Crushed In Time into these genres:
Adventure
Point & Click
3D
Comedy
Puzzle
Mystery
Funny
Detective
Investigation
Game Development
Romance
Emotional
Linear
Story Rich
Indie
Cartoony
Singleplayer
Colorful
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Crushed In Time:
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| Portuguese - Brazil |
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64 bits
- Processor: Core i5‑8400 2.8GHz / AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon RX 560
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible (11+)
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The developers of this game, Draw Me A Pixel, have been consistently producing games that blend ideas that shouldn't work together, yet they perfectly do and get you to care about its world, while making jokes that land. The amount of creativity with blending multiple art styles while staying coherent and fun is a work of art in itself. Absolutely recommended.
Good stuff: The art was bright and colorful and well done. Same for the voice acting. I liked the story and the humor very much. The game is really about making a Holmes and Watson game if you were Watson and the development process gets really messed up. Gameplay: The game mechanic is this stretch and pull motion with the mouse. No controller or keyboard. You use this to pull, spin around in a circle, aim and jump/toss things, and the dreaded open the QTE release when the arrow is in the white part of the circle exercise. There are timed actions besides this where you activate something and then have to do something else before the other something resets, etc. There aren’t any instructions on how to solve dilemmas, so in some cases I was snapping and pulling wherever trying to figure out what I was supposed to be doing to solve the scene. Some goals are very intuitive and others were very difficult to see what you are supposed to be doing. The last two sequences in the last chapter were very difficult for me and many curse words were filling my house last night. For me, that end game craziness takes any replay factor away for me. I seriously don’t want to do that again. However, I did very much enjoy the story and most of the gameplay. I was glad I experienced it and was able to finish it and not rage quit. It’s a good game, but I wanted to put that warning out there that your reflexes will be tested!
If you played "There is no game: Wrong Dimension", then you might remember a short point and click segment with a bumbling and completely oblivious Sherlock and a paranoid Watson that was having a existential crisis about realizing he's a video game character. The devs apperently liked the characters so much that they made a full game and here it is. But if you played their previous game, you can probably figure out that this is no ordinary point and click game. Instad "Crushed in Time" is a click-and-drag adventure, where your most common way of interacting is clicking somewherfe on the screen and drag to have things move in one direction or another. At first it might not look like the mechanics can have that much depth in a full game, and that it would lose it's novelty quickly. But then the other layers of the game comes in and the game keeps surprising you all the way to the end. There is a hint system if you need it, sometimes you might because it's not entirely clear how things will interact even if you only have a handful of interactable points you in each area. A lot of missable achievements, but you have several chances in different chapters for several of them and you will need two playthroughs anyway since one is a >5 hour speedrun and you are not going to do that the first time around I think (it's even called, you definitly used a walkthrough), but having finished it it feels like it's plenty of time now that I know what to do. Usually hate speedrun achievements but this feels doable.
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☑ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10
A Point-And- click Stretch --- Before I say anything else, have you played this? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1240210/There_Is_No_Game_Wrong_Dimension/ There is No Game Wrong Dimension is a modern Point-And-Click that spins out a game that isn't a game into a meta-story with depth and humor. A fully fleshed out version of a previously free project that had been spun out in a matter of days for a Game Jam contest, it's available free now on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241700/There_Is_No_Game_Jam_Edition_2015/?curator_clanid=45170152 Why do I bring those up? Because that's the path we're on to reach Crushed In Time. This is an indy developer that started with a free game, scraped together enough funds to make a real game out of it and now has enough momentum to make another. Crushed In Time borrows the characters Holmes and Watson (introduced in a small section of Wrong Dimension) and gives them their own narrative here. So, what is there to say? The story is really bizarre to the point of being nonsensical at times. It's fun, but not nearly as coherent as Wrong Dimension. The gameplay attempts to innovate. Instead of point-and-click it's point-and-stretch, you'll grab and pull and spin and manipulate things in a gimmick you'll either find mildly innovative or slightly creepy, or maybe a little of both. Comparatively this also plays with the meta but from another direction. Wrong Dimension trying to solve the mystery of why a game isn't working from the outside. Crushed In Time trying to solve the mystery from inside a game while the characters don't even understand how to progress without you and nothing quite works correctly. Both share substantial overlaps in humor style with completely different narrative approach. As fun little stories I highly recommend both games. As for gameplay, There is No Game: Wrong Dimension is superior. Crushed In Time has a difficulty curve that thinks hitting you in the face with a hammer is the joke, while expecting you to laugh when the solution is using a sheep to move a tree, because the sheep is dusty and the birds are scared of cameras. When the narrative is moving along, I'm really enjoying the French Farce (a subgenre of theatrical comedy characterized by rapid pacing, chaotic physical humor, and highly exaggerated, improbable situations) which is what the game does best: Present strange interactive meaning from chaos. What I'm not enjoying as often is the brutality of some of the puzzles being obnoxious non-logic, non-sequitur leaps. There's such a thing as a "Frustration Simulator" in gaming where you're faced with a difficult test just for the sake of proving you can do something. But it feels a little out of place in a game like this that is otherwise such a casual misadventure into comedy. That dual tone may be a bit off putting for some, a casual farce story with non-traditional point-and-click/stretch gameplay that occasionally just beats you over the head with difficulty and calls it the joke. Judged purely on its own, I'm not sure I'd really "love" Crushed in Time, though I do respect it. However, as an extension of the world created by There is No game: Wrong Dimension, I do love the story and its extended universe at play here. If you've not played any of the games from developer Draw Me A Pixel, start with either of their previous: the free There is No Game or more importantly There is No Game: Wrong Dimension, which is a real gem in the point-and-click adventure genre providing both humor and a heart warming story. Then decide if you want the side story for that version of Holmes and Watson which has been spun off into Crushed in Time and be prepared to work unusually hard just to claw your way through the story while it alternates between trying to be funny and trying to stretch your patience. --- Bottome line: A fun farce of a story that may stretch your patience with some of its rather obnoxious puzzles. --- [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38232109/]While you are here, would you consider following my curator page? [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/kunovega/recommended/]Want to read all of my reviews and not just the curated ones?
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Frequently Asked Questions
Crushed In Time is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.
No, Crushed In Time is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Crushed In Time received 1,219 positive votes out of a total of 1,354 achieving a rating of 8.55.
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Crushed In Time was developed and published by Draw Me A Pixel.
Yes, Crushed In Time is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Crushed In Time is not playable on MacOS.
No, Crushed In Time is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Crushed In Time is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Crushed In Time is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Crushed In Time does not support VR.
Crushed In Time is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Crushed In Time. Explore additional content available for Crushed In Time on Steam.
No, Crushed In Time does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Crushed In Time does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Crushed In Time is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Draw Me A Pixel
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Draw Me A Pixel
Release
10 Jun 2026
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