Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened
Discover the adventures of Sherlock Holmes with a gripping atmosphere, for the first time ever delivered in a thoroughly intensive and wholly immersive real-time 3D world. Throughout your investigation you…
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is an adventure developed by Frogwares, released 16 February 2007 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened 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 T age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Discover the adventures of Sherlock Holmes with a gripping atmosphere, for the first time ever delivered in a thoroughly intensive and wholly immersive real-time 3D world. Throughout your investigation you will meet more than sixty characters with whom you can interact freely. Hundreds of clues and objects will need to be scrutinized and utilized in order for the investigation to be solved.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical, horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 28 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened is the 13th of 55 entries we hold in the Sherlock Holmes series. It arrived 2 years after Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring. The next entry was Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis in 2007. Its critic score of 62 is 6 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened at 82.
How it was received
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 30GB. 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 launched against
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened launched on 16 February 2007, within three weeks of Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle, Crackdown and Jade Empire: Special Edition. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Peggle, Crackdown, Jade Empire: Special Edition.
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.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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