Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One

I spent about 15 hours with Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, and it's a game that knows exactly what it wants to be, a story-driven detective adventure where deduction matters more than reflexes. You're investigating your mother's mysterious death across a richly detailed island, interviewing suspects and piecing together clues in ways that actually feel like detective work. The multiple solution angles are genuinely clever; you can solve cases in different ways depending which leads you pursue, and the game respects that. The problem is execution. Investigation sequences are engaging, but the mandatory combat encounters feel like padding from a different game entirely. Dialogue can drag, pacing stutters between investigation and exposition, and the overall presentation doesn't match the atmospheric promise. Metacritic sits at 77, which feels fair, solid detective mechanics wrapped in a game that struggles with its own identity. If you're hungry for branching investigation over action, this scratches that itch. If you need snappy pacing or want to skip the tedious bits, skip it.

Alex · Scout Team

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