The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

Never loved a game quicker. Easy to learn.

old but nice

This game captures Sherlock Holmes' character to the letter; his coldness, drug addictions, and so on, if you have read the novels you will recognize him. As a game, however, the puzzles are just incredibly hard and lack instructions, with little help from the game to know what you are supposed to do; thankfully you can skip most (all?) of them, after a certain (unknown) number of tries. Just keep fiddling around and resetting the puzzles for two or three minutes and a button to skip them will appear. If the previous sentence didn't give it away, the story is great and captivating (despite some minor flaws) but the actual game is a tiny bit of evidence gathering, a lot of puzzle-requisites gathering and then skipping the actual puzzle because they just can't be solved by normal people. It seems this one, unlike others, has no included walkthrough; with a walkthrough it might be passable but I've had enough of this game. Another Holmes game that "requires" a walkthrough is Secret of the Silver Earring; I actually loved that one, despite sharing many flaws with this one, because of all the Holmes games I've played it's the only one where you actually feel like a detective solving a crime. Another thing: in this game Watson is really useless, both as a game and plot device, outside of cut-scenes all he can say is "What now Holmes?". I played several hours of the game and enjoyed the story despite the puzzles, but in the end I uninstalled it unfinished, it boycotts itself too much. Good story, good production values, technically better than previous games, ruined by an obsession with insane and force-fed puzzles.

I used to play another of these games years back and am looking forward to playing this game type again. Was exited to buy it. But currently not working on windows 10. Tried everything to make it work. What a shame

The game is crashing every time i am tryin to save my game. If you are masochist you can try it..