The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
Fair · Narrative · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.1h
- Value
- $1.65/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was November 2020. 109 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. 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.
On value it sits in the top 19 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments ($29.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter ($29.99, scores 43).
4 of the 673 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 238 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
72% start to 12% 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
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
The game has really showed it's age and definitely not good to play in 2026 but if you love sherlock holmes old games and ok with the old puzzle mechanics then the game is good for you! STORY 7.5/10 GRAPHICS 5/10 By today's standards GAMEPLAY 4/10 Very bad MUSIC 6.0/10 WORLD 5/10 Overall i recommend it 6/10
I can only hope that by the end of this explanation you will understand that I behaved in such a way only to protect you, and that it caused me great pain to see your trust and confidence in me ebbing away.
If you just want a fun, albeit dark, adventure - go ahead, it's a nice quest with moderately challenging puzzles. Also voice acting is great. But if you want a good story from you "sherlock holmes" game, you better look elsewhere. The game is very good at suspense and storybaiting, through the whole story you are very interested to see how all these strange behaviors of characters will be explained. But it never...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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The Testament of Sherlock Holmes scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/205650/the-testament-of-sherlock-holmesThe 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 Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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