Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
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…
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is an adventure developed by Frogwares, released 11 April 2023 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes crossover, The Awakened puts you up against the legendary Cthulhu Mythos. Investigate a series of mysterious disappearances, apparently linked to a dark cult that worships an Ancient God. Whatever their plan is, you must put a stop to it… or face unspeakable consequences. For the first time in his life, Sherlock is truly afraid. A man of rationale and reason, he faces an otherworldly entity that defies all logic, and this discovery is as enlightening as it is shattering. The pursuit of the truth pushes Sherlock to the verge of madness, and it’s the only story that Watson will never publish. Taking place in 1884, The Awakened lifts the curtain on how…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is the 41st of 55 entries we hold in the Sherlock Holmes series. It arrived 11 months after Sherlock Holmes Essential Bundle. The next entry was Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened - The Whispered Dreams in 2023. Its critic score of 82 is 14 points above the series average of 68. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened launched on 11 April 2023, within three weeks of Dead Island 2, Resident Evil 4, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and Dredge. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dead Island 2, Resident Evil 4, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Dredge.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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