Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is a detective, lovecraftian and story rich game
developed and published by Frogwares.
Released on April 11th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 15 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish and Ukrainian.
It has received 1,999 reviews of which 1,683 were positive and 316 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended
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Very good Sherlock Holmes/Cthulhu Mythos crossover. The main story and the side quests are all quite interesting. The puzzles and deductions arent overly hard but still give you a nice sense of accomplishment when you get them right on the first try. Graphics are OK for a double A game. The writing and voice acting are the game's strongest suit. I really enjoyed this version of Sherlock and Watson. The varied locations the story takes place in all feel atmospheric, memorable, and well-made. Overall, I really enjoyed this game. It inspired me to buy other Sherlock Holmes games by Frogwares, so it definitely gets a recommendation from me.
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When the bombs started to fall on Kyiv, instead of fleeing, the developer decided to make this game, with constant power outages and the possibility of death. I find this a remarkable show of the indomitable human spirit.
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I say, Watson, would you be afraid to sleep in the same home as a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip? This line moves me deeply. 🎻
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I've played almost all of Frogwares' Sherlock Holmes adventure games because I love detective mechanics in games, and Frogware does these really well. You can adjust the difficulty to your liking, which is a great feature. I love the puzzle solving aspect, so I chose the higher difficulty for that, but left the indicator for interactive places enabled (which would usually be disabled on the higher difficulty) because I don't enjoy just clicking everywhere to find the one interactive spot. I enjoyed the puzzles for the most part. Especially the mind palace, where you have to combine two to four clues to solve aspects of your case, occasionally was a bit tedious since you have to read through all your clues to find the correct ones to combine. Reconstructing events based on the evidence you collected was always logical and fun. What I didn't enjoy was the mechanic for asking people questions. You have to 'pin' a clue you want to ask about before you can talk to people. Most of the time the clue you need to ask about is marked, which is a good thing, you wouldn't want to have to try out ten or fifteen different clues. But then, if i can only ask one question to one specific person, why do I have a choice at all? I tried multiple clues with multiple people at multiple times, and as far as I can tell, any choice is an illusion, and there is no point to try to ask other questions than the marked one. This is true for most of the game, it is completely on rails. You have to do A, then B, then C. There is zero need for exploration. If you find an address, you can just as well go there directly. If there is any need to visit other areas, you'll find a hint that tells you to go there, eventually. The game has a point system that opens up "bonus content," mostly different outfits. I have no idea what the purpose of these is supposed to be because half the time you can't even change your outfit, and there is no in-game use for it, either. You can't look up how many points you got in a chapter, or what the maximum number of points would have been. You have to be in-game to look up how many points you have, so you do not even know your final number. Why have points at all? On a more positive note, I did like the story, it is sufficiently spooky for Lovecraft. I recommend SH:TA for people who are fans of the Frogware Sherlock Holmes games.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is a remake of Frogwares' original title with the same name from 2008. It's a fairly modern style of linear 3d adventure game centered around an occult mystery. A direct comparison to the original is mostly favorable. Both tone and difficulty are less jumpy than they used to be. A creepy atmosphere is maintained fairly consistently through the game's entire runtime, and the gameplay works fairly well too, with less difficulty spikes and unintuitive guesswork than before. It's still not entirely seamless and I got stuck a few times, but I never had to consult a walkthrough, unlike with nearly every single one of Frogwares' older Sherlock Holmes-titles. One innovation of the game is an evidence pinning system. Sometimes Sherlock Holmes can only discover certain things if a relevant piece of evidence is pinned. The system is quite streamlined and easy to use: you can always see from your inventory which evidence should be pinned, and there's basically never more than one pinnable thing at a given time. I guess something like this makes the old-fashioned process of trigger-hunting a bit more transparent to the player and works to the game's benefit. The art direction is nice and gloomy, but I would slightly criticize some aspects of the overall direction. The story has a kind of a "modern TV series" kind of a sheen to it, with some dialogue scenes feeling a little over-edited. Sherlock and Watson have several heart-to-hearts during the game, but the unseen director always seems to be in a bit of a rush. The pace is quick and sometimes the emotional beats don't have the time they would need to fully sink in. The story in general focuses more on Sherlock Holmes' fraying psyche as he encounters the occult horrors, which is a good angle and makes sense in a Lovecraft-inspired setting. Like in the original game, I get the impression that the game becomes a bit less polished towards the end. The story pacing is more choppy, and I also had some camera bugs in the final map. But to be fair, the game was developed in difficult circumstances with a war going on in Ukraine. To sum things up, this is a pretty good adventure game with a fair amount of content. My playthrough on stream where I spent a lot of time walking around and idly chatting lasted over 17 hours. As an odd side note, I think the flaws and bizarre design choices in the old version made it more memorable. This new version is smoother and more polished, but the lack of serrated edges may make it seem slightly inoffensive in comparison too. It does its job and it's definitely more playable, but out of the two games, I imagine I will feel more nostalgia for the older version in the long run. It's strange how that works.
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Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened received 1,683 positive votes out of a total of 1,999 achieving a rating of 8.07.
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Sherlock Holmes The Awakened was developed and published by Frogwares.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is not playable on MacOS.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is not playable on Linux.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is a single-player game.
There are 3 DLCs available for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Explore additional content available for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened does not support Steam Remote Play.
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened 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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