Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
Skip · Narrative · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$39.99Skip
On its price record
$21.18Fair
- Length
- 9.3h
- Value
- $4.30/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 85% ($5.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 90% ($3.99)
- Last discount ended
- 14 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
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 investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was February 2026. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 36 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 32 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter ($19.99, scores 52) beats it on value, while it beats The Sinking City Remastered ($39.99, scores 33).
Of the 780 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 11 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 46 percent of the 140 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
67% start to 18% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
38 players online when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
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I enjoyed this game. It's my 3rd game from Frogwares (yes, 3rd one with a Lovecraftian story, because that's the boat I'm on right now HAH NO PUN INTENDED I SWEAR ), and I really had fun playing it. I love the graphics, the game mechanics - which are already a little familiar to me after playing The Sinking City - and obviously, I like the overall vibe and story. Tho, once again, it's useful to read all the Tips...
This is honestly a big disappointment. I've played all the modern games in the series, and I'd say this is the worst one. I don't want to spoil the game, but it has almost nothing to do with Cthulhu except for the concept. You won't really see Cthulhu or learn much about its story, so don't let the cover fool you. If you want a truly scary experience, I'd recommend The Devil's Daughter instead. There are also many...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1949030/sherlock-holmes-the-awakenedReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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