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Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper
Recognized as one of the best licenses in gaming and lauded by the press, Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation that is sure to be the most horrifying of the series. The famous detective stands against the most dangerous serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“So BEFORE I TALK ABOUT THIS GAME even though I did want to enjoy it, I need to point out some big problems about it: - Firstly, SAVE OFTEN AND SAVE PLENTY because the game has a bizarre bug that sometimes stops you saving and it has no autosave feature, even though this is a…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs played“As a few other of the Sherlock series games this one just doesn't want to start properly. It freezes after the 'New Game' button is clicked and fails after you minimize it. Useless! Update! I did find the solution: Open Find and search for 'PhysXLoader64.dll' , it should be in…”
— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played“I played this game when it originally released on DVD-ROM, many years ago, and absolutely loved the atmosphere, the story, the puzzle solving, the simple but effective graphics, and the quite good voice acting. All of those things still hold true. The story's excellent. The…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Our latest Sherlock Holmes game is out!
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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is ready to download and play!
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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One | Launch Trailer
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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
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Adventure, RPG |
| Player tags | Adventure · RPG · Detective · Point & Click · Mystery · Historical · Investigation · Puzzle · Story Rich · Thriller · Singleplayer · Crime (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Czech, French * , German * , Italian * , Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian * , Spanish - Spain * * |
| Official site | http://frogwares.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
OS *: Windows XP/Vista Processor: Celeron 2Ghz or AthlonXp 1900+ Memory: 512MB Graphics: 128MB Graphics Card DirectX®: DirectX 9 Hard Drive:3GB of free space Sound: DirectX 9 compatible