Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments
Crimes & Punishments lets you become the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes! Solve six high-profile, gripping and varied cases: murders, disappearances, spectacular thefts and sensational cases…
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is an adventure developed by Frogwares, released 29 September 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. It currently starts at $2.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 13.4 hrs to finish.
What Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and released in 2014. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In the London of 1894 and 1895, master detective Sherlock Holmes takes on six baffling cases spanning murder, theft, and mysterious disappearances, from an ill-tempered whaling captain found impaled in his cabin to an entire train that vanishes without a trace. Alongside Dr. Watson, Holmes scours crime scenes, examines witnesses, performs autopsies, and pieces clues together into chains of deduction to name the guilty. But each solution carries a moral weight: once he identifies a culprit, Holmes, and the player, must decide whether to condemn them to justice or grant them mercy.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, mystery and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is the 28th of 55 entries we hold in the Sherlock Holmes series. It arrived 2 years after Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of the Frozen City. The next entry was Sherlock Holmes 2 in 2015. Its critic score of 75 is 7 points above the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened at 82.
How it was received
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 195 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 13.4 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $2.99, that works out to about $0.22 per hour of the main story, or $0.20 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ, 2048 MB RAM and 256 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE AMD RADEON HD 3850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GTS OR HIGHER. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 14GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.99 at Steam, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments launched on 29 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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