Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
Fair · Narrative · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 12.6h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 14 GB of storage. Windows only.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
August 2020 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. 103 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Rise of the Golden Idol ($13.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter ($29.99, scores 43).
The press gave it 77; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 12-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Steam's global achievement data puts 29 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 927 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 53 percent of the 439 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 12.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
58% start to 29% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
20 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 15:46 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Finished only the first case so far, but I really liked it. Beautiful game, and I like how the investigating works. Also, it allows players to make wrong decisions about who's guilty, and even moral decisions about what to do about them, something that I believe more detective game should allow. On modern PCs, you might have flickering graphics on this one. Run it with "-dx9" command line argument to avoid that.
Don't expect mind-blowing mysteries, but it's really fun and the graphics aged well. And the vibe is immaculate.
The QTEs are annoying (and glitchy if you fail once), but you can skip them. I thought the investigation aspect was great. However I felt the difficulty is front-loaded: after the first couple cases the investigation gets more linear and hard to get wrong. This game will scratch your logical deduction itch however so I can recommend it if that's what you're looking for. A little short IMO (6 cases, approximately one...
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Cite this score
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/241260/sherlock-holmes-crimes-and-punishmentsReviews 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 20, price as of Oct 1.
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