Forgot I played this game a long while ago. I got all the achievements too! Not sure why really, but it's a solid mystery/detective game. There's no combat or real action in this game, and is mainly just Sherlock going around and putting evidence together to solve a given case. You can then put together your solution of the case in Sherlock's head. The game doesn't actually tell you if your solution is right or not despite getting an ending finale cutscene for each case once you enter your solution. But you can reveal what the true answer is after watching said cutscene. May take a few playthroughs if you''re achievement hunting since some of them are missable (if you're not spoiling yourself in advance of the correct outcomes).

It was obvious this game was made on a budget as you play it, but they still worked with what they had to make a solid Sherlock Holmes game. If you need to scratch your detective/mystery itch, it might be worth a pickup for cheap.

Score: 81

This game is basically garbage. Sherlock and Watson are terrifically dull, every attempt at humor or deeper characterization falls flat on its face, and the puzzle controls are consistently bad enough that the developers let you skip any puzzle without consequence because a couple of them are straight up impossible to figure out purely based on the poor controls. It does some sort of interesting stuff when it comes to concluding the cases, but by the time that happens you’re just wishing it would be over (and then it throws you a half-baked quick time event after your decision that can ruin any sense of satisfaction if you fail it). This shit stinks!

Juego de investigación donde muchas veces no te dejan investigar pues te cortan todo el rato con cualquier tontería (pero las mecánicas de averiguar que ha ocurrido están bien, eso si). Los personajes están bastante tiesos, como si todos tuviesen una armadura puesta. Hay bug gráfico que hace que las texturas parpadeen por todo el juego con bastante frecuencia, hasta el punto de llegar a ser molesto.
Otro bug es que cuándo tomas el control tras leer algo a veces no avanza para adelante, debes dejar de presionar y volver a hacerlo para que camine. Si te atrancas te permite saltarte cualquier puzzle que desees, cosa que probablemente ocurra, pues te deja equivocarte en tus deducciones. Como apunte final, el perro tiene una cara rara, a medio hacer.

Indubitably!

From the minute you take control of Sherlock you are immediately transported to late 1800s London and are swept into arguably the most immersive detective role to date.

With engaging and exciting deduction, to outstanding visuals and some truly striking scenery, this is truly an incredible Sherlock experience. Even the often harshly criticised excessive use of different mini-games, I still adored. They gave more life to the character of Sherlock and truly made you feel like you were working the ins and outs of the detective job.

And boy... the cases are all fantastic. And with such a glorious ending how can I give this anything bar a 10/10?

This game was a delight to play. Intriguing Mysteries to solve, Good enough visuals, Decent Music to fit the environments, Great voice acting for the most part, and a very unique gameplay feel.
This is the definitive Sherlock experience in my eyes, with just enough freedom to shape the story yourself in both gameplay and story.

I have my complaints like the puzzles being a bit simpler, the sort of casual hand holding the game does, and the absolute annoying minigames that randomly pop up however I think the puzzles and hand holding works in its favour in this case.
The simplicity of it offers a new audience of people who are afraid to explore the genre of puzzle games a great starting point and hopefully lead to them trying more complex games in the future. It also allows fans of Sherlock Homes the ability to experience the IP a lot easier.
I did notice that when playing on PlayStation 5 some shadows tended to freak out a lot, when switching to my PS4 the shadows did not have that issue

After the disappointment I felt with Frogwares' The Sinking City, I yearned for a more traditional detective mystery, which is exactly what I got with Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments. I mean, what could be more traditional?

Crimes & Punishments is a simple, yet effective caper, taking the dynamic duo of Holmes and Watson through six cases with their own unique circumstances, locations, and stories to tell, all while an overarching plot slowly unfolds in the background. Unfortunately, I felt that this overarching plot was one of the weakest parts of the game, as it's barely mentioned halfway through before being shoehorned into the ending decision of the game.

The rest of the game, however, consisting of self-contained mysteries, is consistently solid from the first to the last. While the penultimate case was the weakest in my view, it still delivered a solid story and suitable motivations for the characters.

The mystery-solving elements themselves are nothing new, though they don't really need to be. They mostly consist of your basic loop of investigating, collecting evidence, and interrogating. What truly sets Crimes & Punishments apart, however, is the free-form nature with which you connect the dots and ultimately draw the conclusions. There's some handholding and guidance along the way, but the case's resolution is ultimately up to you putting all the pieces together and discerning the guilty party.

This part of the game is by far its most compelling and engaging aspect. Though its systems and logic can seem convoluted and archaic at times, this is one of the closest instances in which a game has emulated the feeling of being a real detective.

The puzzles that you solve along the way in your investigations are also largely solid, albeit with some unnecessarily elaborate ones, like the lock-picking mini-game, which the game starts to throw at you with frequency towards the back half.

Despite these setbacks, however, I truly enjoyed my time with Crimes & Punishments and hope that as I move forward, the series can build on this formula and throw a much stronger overarching narrative on top of it to really deliver the full Sherlock Holmes experience this franchise deserves.

7/10

Very tight detective game that doesn't run on for too long yet doesn't run for too short a time also. You can tell the developers frogware really care about the Sherlock licence as the amount of attention to detail that they've put into this single game is something i think a lot of AAA developers can benefit to learn from.

Crimes and Punishment presents you with a total of 6 full cases to play through, all with differing lengths and subject matters. On one case you could be solving a stock standard murder while on another you will be tasked with finding a disappearing train. It's the variety in cases and outcomes of each that simply adds to how consistently engaging the whole package is with the exception of one. The "Kew Gardens Drama" is the odd man out as that case turns out to be very simple and dull despite being the penultimate case. By that point you would have expected a much more grandiose case, but it comes out to ultimately be a staggering pace breaker.

Each case, we are also presented with a series of very differing minigames. After the collection of certain clues within the cases you'll be tasked with a minigame to further the story, these can involve examples such as arm wrestling a drunkard sailor for information or creating a mold for the perfect murder weapon, the very strong aspect of this is the fact that each case brings about its own set of new and unique minigames to play meaning that the attention that Frogware has given to each and every part of their game is once again, more than what a lot of established AAA developers do.

It hasn't aged the best but for a kickstarter indie game made in 2014, it is a very good time.