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In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is a detective, open world and story rich game
developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on November 15th 2021 is available only on Windows
in 16 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.
It has received 3,658 reviews of which 2,873 were positive and 785 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 44.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 8.62€ on Instant Gaming.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 28 GB available space
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I've been playing through all of Frogware's Sherlock games in order of their release, and while the first three have already changed slightly from game to game, Chapter One felt completely new at first. Initially, I wasn't happy about how much younger they made the protagonists, how they changed Jon's role and how different Sherlock's character was. But over the course of the game, I grew fond of the characters, and their dialogue - Jon's snarky comments, their reminiscence of their childhood on the island - felt natural and fitting for old childhood friends. After playing through the emotional and touching finale and finishing the game, I even caught myself 'missing' these two and their story. The amazing synchronisation also plays a part in this. I wanted to put special emphasis on how well Sherlock and Jon are written and how much I loved their interaction with each other, but the other things I like (and dislike) about the game, I will summarise much shorter: ++ Story/Quests: The main storyline is engaging and interesting, though a bit predictable. The other main quests and cases were usually fun as well, although I just clicked through the dialogue on some occasions as it was a bit lengthy. Still, I liked the stories the game was telling. ++ The island: I loved the small-ish open world and how alive it felt. You have lots of people running around, every district had its own characteristic and you would sometimes stumble across a side case or a memory to unlock. + The atmosphere: The background music is seriously underrated, it adds so much to the atmosphere. The day/night cycle was not used at all, unfortunately, but it added a sense of authenticity. + Length and difficulty: It took me almost 24h to finish the game plus getting all the trophies. The game itself isn't difficult, although I did use a guide at a few points. Some reviews criticize that you're running around without knowing where to go - I absolutely canNOT confirm this, the game just requires you to read or use your brain a slight bit. I actually appreciated it that there were no quest markers at all in the game. + I loved the little easter eggs which referenced the books/TV series like some quotes and the street names. +- Some people complain that you don't know if your decisions/deductions are right or wrong. This is the main point of the game and the base question of what Sherlock and Verner are often discussing: According to Sherlock, there is an absolute, undeniable truth, while Verner claims that truth is subjective and what one wants it to be. So in a way, the game not telling you if you convicted the right person, perfectly fits its theme. +- The costume mechanic (like the people around you reacting differently depending on your outfit) is interesting but I think they could have used it a bit more. - A few mechanisms don't work particularly well, e.g. presenting evidence to witnesses to get their comment on it. Sometimes, I would just do trial-and-error until the dialogue was finished. - The combat: The combat scenes do make sense at certain points, but combat itself just isn't good or fun. At least it's not particularly difficult, once you get the hang of it. - Some of the dialogue is just very pretentious and pseudo-philosophical. Most of Sherlock's discussions with Verner felt tedious and lengthy. - I had some technical issues at the beginning when trying to start the game, but was able to resolve this (playing in window mode prevented the game from crashing). The graphical settings also needed some finetuning, but after that, the game looked nice All in all, I had a great time with the game and I would absolutely recommend it to everyone who likes a relaxed mystery/adventure game.
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---{ 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 # It's interesting at the start, but then the novelty wears off. You run around and search. Finding all the coins were a bit annoying, especially when I had to follow the moon phases. ☐ 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 10% 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 # All you do is find places to click, then click on it and find intel. You might to use some brain work to arrive at a conclusion at times. ☐ 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 # Your choice doesn't affect the story, so that was a bit of a flop. I would've preferred not to have the option to choose at all and instead have Sherlock telling me what he thought. ☐ 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
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If this is your first Sherlock Holmes game, then do not buy it. "Crimes and Punishments" or "Devil's Daughter" is better choice. And for other Sherlock Holmes games enjoyers this is a good pick with a discount. Game adds open world and combat. Both are questionable additions, that I didn't liked at first, but they grow on me. City is beautiful, each district in different and unique. Exploration only yields new sub cases. Apart from that there is literally nothing to do in it. Combat is strange, but enjoyable in its own way. It can be skipped and there is no mandatory combats. Cases are downgrade from other games. Despite the amount of cases, dev went from quality to quantity. Only the main cases have access to "Mind Palace", while sub cases have 1 conclusion. Main cases now have vague endings where you don't know if its the right choice. Its the my main problem with the game. Feels like dev's don't have the balls to say which choice is the correct one, so they blur the endings to make you feel like you made the correct choice and to not "offend" or "hurt" people who made the wrong choice Main story and Sherlock's companion Jon are both good and enjoyable.
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It was a good play. Make sure you buy this ON SALE because the main story is really short, I had more fun with the side quests/cases. If you are playing this now or planning to purchase, just one tip; after finishing the "Sacrificial Lamb" main story case, make sure you go and complete all side quests/cases because once you return to stonewood manor, it's the ending. You will have to load your manual save, if you were able to do that, or else the game will just load your last auto save which is in the mind place of "A Mother's Love" last part, the ending. ALSO, there's action on this one! Gun fights on some cases and all bandit lairs. I hated it, I can't arrest them all, I end up killing a lot of them. So I had help every time, it's so frustrating! BUT I am still recommending this game. I love solving the mysteries, the side stories are good too, graphics is beautiful, and eavesdropping was funny. WARNING for "The Muse from Abroad" case, it's not very graphic but the story is not for the lighthearted. THE ENDING. I was happy to see the real John and the imaginary Jon gone.
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This Sherlock Holmes game differs from the others, in quite a few ways. I am unsure whether the combat system added any value to the game. The games offers little to no help in solving and one offer ends up confused as to what must be done next. Some side quests require you to find places, with little information which might lead to hours of searching if you are not using a guide. There is the occasional visual bug, of cloths/bodies clipping into walls; running to the side looks awful. Cutscenes cannot be skipped even if you have already seen them before (which makes a second run exhausting). That's the bad. The good is, the game was fun. The cases were difficult, some had twists you did not see coming and it took some efford to find all evidence to come to the right conclusion. However, oftentimes there is no 'right' conclusion. The game just leaves you hanging. I am still not sure whether I like that or not. Anyway, I enjoyed the game, and started a second run to finish the achievements.
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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is currently priced at 44.99€ on Steam.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 44.99€ on Steam.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One received 2,873 positive votes out of a total of 3,658 achieving a rating of 7.61.
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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One was developed and published by Frogwares.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is not playable on MacOS.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is not playable on Linux.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is a single-player game.
There are 11 DLCs available for Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. Explore additional content available for Sherlock Holmes Chapter One on Steam.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One does not support Steam Remote Play.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One 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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15 Nov 2021
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