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Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
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 players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-08-31 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
82 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“First playthrough review time. Crimes and Punishments is one of the best detective games I have played. The new engine makes the game looks nice and the voice acting is also very well done. In this game, you have to…”
22 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“First playthrough review time. Crimes and Punishments is one of the best detective games I have played. The new engine makes the game looks nice and the voice acting is also very well done. In this game, you have to…”
“As a fan of investigation games, it's quite an entertaining adventure, and a fairly easy 100%. I enjoyed the different small stories with the extra subplot about the Merry Men and of course the dispise between brothers.…”
“interesting game fun to play and also i liked the suspense”
13 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“First playthrough review time. Crimes and Punishments is one of the best detective games I have played. The new engine makes the game looks nice and the voice acting is also very well done. In this game, you have to…”
“i loved every bit of the game, despite it crashing while loading Kew Gardens (which i only managed to fix by forcing dx9). didnt expect to see half the mechanics here and i definitely didnt expect to actually enjoy all…”
“A beautiful work of its time, you can tell that the developers really cared about what they were creating, it just shines through. Do wait for a sale though!”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“First playthrough review time. Crimes and Punishments is one of the best detective games I have played. The new engine makes the game looks nice and the voice acting is also very well done. In this game, you have to…”
“Great addition to the previous games from Frogwares, with Easter Eggs and mentions from the previous cases. I enjoyed it a great deal and it is one of my favourite games. The cases were fun to unravel, the deductions…”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this.
“Great addition to the previous games from Frogwares, with Easter Eggs and mentions from the previous cases. I enjoyed it a great deal and it is one of my favourite games. The cases were fun to unravel, the deductions…”
“Pretty good Sherlock Holmes game! I liked the personality mechanic and appreciated the fact that the puzzles weren't mind-frying-ly hard. On the whole, pretty easy to read where stuff was going, but there are definitely…”
“A real step up in the series. Two cases in and both were quite interesting. And allowing the player to arrive at wrong conclusions at the end is exactly how I believe a deduction game ought be. A back to form, in ways.…”
14 of the 101 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“i loved every bit of the game, despite it crashing while loading Kew Gardens (which i only managed to fix by forcing dx9). didnt expect to see half the mechanics here and i definitely didnt expect to actually enjoy all…”
“I enjoyed. It's an old game and sometimes (like Watson always standing in the way in the Kew garden streets) but it plays nicely and I think lockpicking is kind of original and interesting. WARNING: Played on GForce Now…”
“THE AMOUNT OF CRASHES GRRR”
13 of the 101 reviews raise this · 11 of them still recommend the game.
“Genuinely did not expect to enjoy playing dress-up as a Victorian cocaine enthusiast this much, yet there I am, 10 hours later, still accusing random butlers of murder with zero evidence. The deduction system is…”
“weirdly loved this! bought it in a sale and started it up to take a break from twitchy roguelikes and too-big open worlds. its a little janky, a little uneven and it took me way too long to find the button to switch…”
“bad game. you aren't a detective, you press the buttons as the games tells you what to think. crimes and motives don't make sense. you figure out whats going on 10 years before the game tells you. not fun”
8 of the 101 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Nothing much to say other than you play as Sherlock Holmes and you are solving a bunch of different cases. It reminded me the most of a classic Sherlock Holmes experience, whilst the other game "Chapter One" served as a…”
“Great addition to the previous games from Frogwares, with Easter Eggs and mentions from the previous cases. I enjoyed it a great deal and it is one of my favourite games. The cases were fun to unravel, the deductions…”
“Although I hated the testimant of sherlock holmes, I really did like this game. I didn't have to use the guide as much and can skip over stupic lockpick puzzles. Overall a pleasant experience.”
5 of the 101 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Absolutely loved it. Finished the game in almost 17 hours solving 6 cases. Great value at a discount. Graphically pretty good for an older game (with the exception of the mouths during talking scenes). Interesting…”
“A 12-year-old game can no longer keep up with evolving hardware; the amount of flashing textures is alarming. Despite all this, the story is what saves this game.”
4 of the 101 reviews raise this · 4 of them still recommend the game.
“As a fan of investigation games, it's quite an entertaining adventure, and a fairly easy 100%. I enjoyed the different small stories with the extra subplot about the Merry Men and of course the dispise between brothers.…”
“Absolutely loved it. Finished the game in almost 17 hours solving 6 cases. Great value at a discount. Graphically pretty good for an older game (with the exception of the mouths during talking scenes). Interesting…”
Counted across 101 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 89.5% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“The game is not bad: we investigate cases, examine clues, and choose a conclusion. The outcome of the case depends on your attention. The downside is the controls. Watson constantly gets in the way. 👍”
— a player, Steam review · 35 hrs played“I successfully created a vorpX profile for [i]Crimes & Punishments.[/i] It's likely that I'm the first man to experience this game in Full VR. [h1]A New Era in Frogwares' [i]Sherlock Holmes[/i][/h1] [i]Crimes & Punishments[/i] is the first Sherlock Holmes game that Frogwares…”
— a player, Steam review · 30 hrs played“---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs playedPlayer activity
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Achievement stats
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure |
| Player tags | Detective · Adventure · Mystery · Investigation · Crime · Puzzle · Story Rich · Atmospheric · Singleplayer · Point & Click · Choices Matter · Historical (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Polish, Japanese, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Turkish * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 25 |
| Official site | http://frogwares.com/games/#Crimes_Punishments |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8 Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ Memory: 2048 MB RAM Graphics: 256 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE AMD RADEON HD 3850/NVIDIA GEFORCE 8600 GTS OR HIGHER DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 14 GB available space Sound Card: DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION