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Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is a detective, adventure and mystery game developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on September 29th 2014 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 7,191 reviews of which 6,469 were positive and 722 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 0.60€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments into these genres:

Detective Adventure Mystery Investigation Crime Puzzle Story Rich Atmospheric Singleplayer Point & Click Choices Matter Historical Third Person Open World Action First-Person Horror Classic Indie

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ
Memory: 2048 MB RAM
Graphics: 256 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE AMD RADEON HD 3850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GTS OR HIGHER
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 14 GB available space
Sound Card: DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION

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Feb. 2026

---{ 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 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 ☐ 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 [It's a fun game] ☑ 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 ---{ 1 / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Crimes and Punishments >> The Devil's Daughter

Dec. 2025

It's a crime scene investigation game similar to L.A Noire. However, in this game you're Sherlock Holmes. It's the kind of game that truly makes you use your brain in order to piece all the evidence together in order to make a good judgment.

Dec. 2025

Its great. Once you start you dont wanna close until you finish, This game scratched something inside me which i didnt knew it existed. I still want more. 2014 release date and the graphic still holds. Most impressives are those cases no spoiling just play it. Great VA. I can see why its more popular. door lock puzzles are kinda hard but thankfully skip button exist. only crashed like 3 times. overall 4.5/5

Dec. 2025

Detective game that did not overstay its welcome. Divided into 6 cases. Word of warning, in the Kew Gardens case there is a particular clue that is described using the word 'proven' - you should substitute that word for 'suggests'.

Sept. 2025

It is worth it, the gameplay is great and the plots of the crimes are unexpected

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments received 6,469 positive votes out of a total of 7,191 achieving a rating of 8.72.

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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments was developed and published by Frogwares.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is not playable on MacOS.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is not playable on Linux.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments. Explore additional content available for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments on Steam.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments does not support Steam Remote Play.

Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments 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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