Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper
Skip · RPG · 2009
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 81% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 128MB Graphics Card. Windows only.
Recognized as one of the best licenses in gaming and lauded by the press, Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation that is sure to be the most horrifying of the series. The famous detective stands against the most dangerous serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.
What drives the score
How to read this
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical RPG game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
November 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 109 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 5 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 24 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Council (free, scores 62) beats it on value, while it beats Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter ($29.99, scores 43).
The press gave it 73; the people who bought it give it 81 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
2 of the 444 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 129 reviews written there were positive, against 81 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
Players
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper scores 46/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/11190/sherlock-holmes-versus-jack-the-ripperThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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