Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic combat with blood: human enemies are shot in chase sequences and struck in quick-time struggles, and characters are killed on screen; no dismemberment or gore focus.
Tobacco and alcohol appear in the Victorian London setting, including pipe smoking and drinking in public houses.
The cases turn on murder, a ring of aristocrats who hunt destitute men for sport, and abandonment into slavery, with named characters killed on screen.
London's seedier locales and several cases carry an unsettling, macabre tone, but nothing hunts or is timed to startle the player.
The story centres on murders and conspiracies that the player investigates as the detective rather than commits.
One case involves an expedition whose survivors believe they are under a curse, a supposed supernatural element the investigation treats as a mystery to be solved.
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What it is
This is a single-player detective adventure in which you play Sherlock Holmes across five self-contained cases in Victorian London, examining crime scenes for clues, interrogating suspects, and linking evidence on a deduction board to name a culprit. Between the investigation puzzles the game adds action and quick-time sequences — chases, tailing, and moments of gunfire and physical danger. The mysteries deal in murder, missing people, and grim schemes: aristocrats who hunt destitute men for sport, an expedition whose survivors believe they are cursed, and an attempt on Holmes's own life, while a personal thread follows a mysterious neighbour who works her way between Holmes and his adopted daughter. Crime scenes show blood and bodies, tobacco and drink appear in the period setting, and a few endings let the player choose whether a wrongdoer lives or dies.
How it's framed
The game frames its darkness through the lens of investigation and consequence: cruelty and murder are things Holmes uncovers and reasons about rather than spectacle for its own sake, and several cases end by handing the player a moral choice — spare a killer, deliver swift justice, or turn a culprit over to the law — without telling the player which choice is right.
Details
- Developer
- Frogwares
- Publisher
- Frogwares
- Released
- Jun 10, 2016
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