Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis sends us to 19th Century London where Arséne Lupin, a young French burglar with an impressive track record, has just challenged Scotland Yard and the most famous of detectives -…
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis is an adventure developed by Frogwares, released 25 October 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.99 at Steam. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis is
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and released in 2007. It was published by Focus Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis sends us to 19th Century London where Arséne Lupin, a young French burglar with an impressive track record, has just challenged Scotland Yard and the most famous of detectives - Sherlock Holmes.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical, mystery, open world and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis is the 14th of 55 entries we hold in the Sherlock Holmes series. It arrived 8 months after Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened. The next entry was Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Persian Carpet in 2008. Its critic score of 50 is 18 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened at 82.
How it was received
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 14 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs. At its current cheapest price of $0.99, that works out to about $0.10 per hour of the main story, or $0.09 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for PENTIUM3/ATHLON 1.3 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 64 MB DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE GRAPHICS CARD. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at Steam, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis launched on 25 October 2007, within three weeks of Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and The Witcher. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Super Mario Galaxy, Portal, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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