Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (Frogwares, 2014)
Six cases where you name the culprit yourself, and decide what happens to them.
Reading deduction is watching someone else be clever; this lets you be clever, or wrong, and live with it.
You want to be the one who works it out, and you want the game to let you be wrong.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Holmes, Watson, Baker Street and the method of gathering evidence until a conclusion forces itself on you.
Changes: who does the deducing. You assemble the clues, name the guilty party and choose between the letter of the law and your conscience.
Whose story is it?
yours, as Holmes.
How much time does it ask?
Six self-contained cases, on PC through Steam and on PlayStation 4. Frogwares’ later Sherlock Holmes Chapter One (2021), about a young Holmes on a Mediterranean island, is the alternative.
Developed and published by Frogwares; released 29 September 2014.
Where to find it
Other ways to get it: PC — Steam · Sherlock Holmes Chapter One — Steam
More versions: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles (Capcom, 2021) · The Sherlock Holmes Escape Book: The Adventure of the London Waterworks (2019)