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Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Mummy
Take on the role of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and get ready to avoid numerous traps and to solve riddles. A mysterious murder, numerous suspects, and the famous mummy for a case that appears to be not that easy...
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“Okay, it's a 20+ year old game, but it's free. It's a struggle to get it to run as you need to follow some of the guides to get a new version of DxWnd to run the game and some people won't be able to get past that hurdle. The game has too much tedious looking for items that…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“can you remake this game? i would love to play this without it crashing out ...”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played“Absolutely unplayable on a modern machine.”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:10 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
The “Mycroft’s Pride” Sherlock Holmes Chapter One DLC is here!
Welcome detectives, We are happy to announce that a new Sherlock Holmes Chapter One DLC - Mycroft’s Pride is now available for you to play! The new DLC contains all new set of cases sent by your big b
Our latest Sherlock Holmes game is out!
Hello everyone, We have a quick announcement to make. Our latest creation - Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is now available to play! And it seems that we struck a chord with some reviewers too. Play as a
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One | Launch Trailer
Welcome everyone, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is coming out tomorrow! Prepare yourself to uncover one of the great mysteries of Sherlock's childhood. See what shaped the character of our hero, and wha
How we visualized Sherlock's story in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
Hello everyone, Today, we want to show you a small glimpse of who we are, and show you one of our design processes in Sherlock Holmes Chapter One. Here is a behind-the-scenes video in which we show yo
New screenshots from Sherlock Holmes Chapter One revealed
Hello Sherlock, The Sherlock Holmes Chapter One release day is almost here. You may not know this now, but soon you will start your first major investigation in your childhood home - the Mediterranean
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure |
| Player tags | Adventure · Point & Click · Detective · Puzzle · Mystery · First-Person · Free to Play · Retro · Singleplayer · Difficult (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player |
| Languages | English * , French * , German * , Italian * , Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian * , Spanish - Spain * * |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://frogwares.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
OS *: Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP Processor: CPU PII 350 Mhz Memory: 64 MB Graphics: 8 Mb DirectX 7 compatible Hard Drive: 130 MB Free