Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Skip · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$2.9990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.94/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 14,556
- Critics
- 65 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 22% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $2.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.2h
- To 100%
- 12.3h 1.2x the story
- Finish
- 23% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 101 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $1.00 May 2021
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 8 now
- Cheaper than
- 2% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 81% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
55% start to 23% 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
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 101 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 8 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 22 percent. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express ($7.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Sherlock Holmes Chapter One ($44.99, scores 35).
More about Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Critics scored it 65. Players sit 15 points higher at 80 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 23 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2022 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 48 percent of the 1,728 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 10.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Nov 17 and Nov 30, at about $2.99 (90% off). Predictions like this were right 78% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks. Its own discounts have started about 56 days apart.
Last discount ended 8 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
The gameplay and graphics are pretty much the same as the first game, with a few minor changes. But honestly, I preferred the character writing in the first game, especially Sherlock and Doctor Watson. Their personalities and chemistry were much more enjoyable there. Still, not a bad game - just not much of a step forward.
1 more review, not recommended
I played Crime and Punishment. I really liked Crime and Punishment. This is decidedly not like Crime and Punishment, despite retaining the mindmap deduction mechanics. There are still some of the more cerebral elements from Crime and Punishment that I enjoyed (e.g. the deductions, profiling and catching inconsistencies in statements). The profiling portion has been slightly enhanced, requiring you to make smaller...
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About the game
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 1024 MB 100% DirectX 11 compatible AMD Radeon HD 7790 / NVIDIA GeForce 460 GTX, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/350640/sherlock-holmes-the-devil-s-daughterReviews 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 Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.