Sherlock Holmes The Awakened Reviews

A fun game, easy to get all the achievements in just one playthrough but encourages replays to unlock bonus costumes and artwork/items. As this is my first Sherlock Holmes game I have nothing to compare it to. Nevertheless I have enjoyed this game, Holmes and Watson's dialogue were entertaining though I wish the facial animations were a bit more expressive, the stiffness does not match the otherwise emotional performance at times, but it's a minor nitpick. The different mechanics can be challenging to grasp in the beginning, but I think by the second chapter you'll already have a firm grasp of them. Though there is a lack of side content in the base game, the most you can get is a short side quest during the 7th chapter. It's a great time, and I can see myself replaying this again to unlock the remaining bonuses, but I wouldn't recommend this as your first Sherlock Holmes game as it is a sequel, but then again this story is self contained, so it's up to you.

i think the only real 'critcism' i have of the game is that it is a bit short ; ; i loved the investigation mechanics and would play a game entirely of solving different cases if tht just made it longer w

This is game is average. A solid 6/10. The animations and cutscenes are really clunky, but the story is good enough to keep you playing.

I loved the young Sherlock Series!!! I loved the plot, the marriage between Lovecraft, Stevenson and Doyle !!! Frogwares has perfectioned the art of deduction in this new edition. You won`t get as lost as in the Cordona, because they have polished the game for you so you can just enjoy deducting and theorizing. Chefs kiss mwak I love it. kEEP IT UP with the amazing stories.

It's a lot of fun, a very interesting and mysterious atmosphere with great puzzles! A hidden gem made by a passionate studio

I played the original game a long time ago. Just finished this one and liked it a lot. I prefer the new Sherlock to the old one. The new Sherlock from chapter one and this game has a personality beyond just being a hardcore detective.

A nice 10 hour game with an interesting lovecraftian story that isn't in-your-face scary at all, but provides good ambience and environments. The puzzles are intuitive, if not fairly easy, after getting used to all the UI icons/what needed to be done.

i love all things HP lovecraft and this game takes a little bit getting used to but once you understand how it works its so much fun

The game still has the same mechanics as the previous games, and TBH, the same outdated graphics and animations... I'm hesitant to keep playing, as it is a real pain to play and appart from the story, the rest is just so frustrating. The character is very stiff and slow, as weel as the camera movements. The gameplay is atrocious and unintitive: despite having a map, it is a real maze andyou can easily get lost. You can't speed up or skip small talk dialogs, you have to go through every single pinned clue when asking NPC...etc... As a game from a decade ago, it could have been great, but come on, it's been released in 2023! Thanksfully I got the game on sale for less than 10 € so I don't feel so bad. But just don't pay 35 € for it!!

This is the second Sherlock game I play (the other one was Crimes and Punishments), and gotta say...man it's not good. It's not bad, mind you, but just not my cup of tea. The whole Lovecraftian mythos they sell you is...pretty much non-existent. I feel they lost the way by trying to make it all a big case spanning the whole game. The game has 8 chapters, by the second one you get a tiny glimpse of what could be an amazing investigation regarding kidnappings and the cult, but nope, that's it, they barely scratch the surface by showing you a couple of things regarding Cthulhu and some "cosmic" crazy things every now and then that have a sort of toll on Holmes (he gets a bit crazy) but it doesn't go any further than that. Because of this I was completely disengaged for the most part of the game. And I don't really feel like writing more about the boring experience I had, a shame tho It could have been something really great.