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Scotland Yard has called Sherlock Holmes with an urgent request for help! A young painter has been found murdered and rolled up in a remarkable Persian carpet. Along with Watson, you must investigate the peculiar crime, exploring crime scene locations in search of missing clues.
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Hello again, fellow sleuths! We're releasing the long-awaited second part of the compatibility patch. This patch fixes common startup and save issues of our older games running on Windows 10. We hope you can continue enjoying our previous games to the fullest with these new fixes. Take care! Frogwares team
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35% positive, 336 reviews
Skip to the bottom for TL;DR summary. I took a chance on this game despite the mostly negative ratings, since many of those ratings seemed based on the fact that it's a Hidden Object style game instead of the usual Point-and-Click style Holmes games that Frogwares puts out. Since I like the hidden object genre as much as I like P&C games, I grabbed it (on sale, just in case). In short, it's terrible. Not because...
213 found this helpful, 2016-02-21
Sherlock Holmes: The hunt for the hidden pixel If you enjoy trying to find a small white dot in a large room buy this game and don't think twice. Otherwise keep looking. The puzzles are almost the same as in some of the other installments in the series and pretty much the entire challenge is around finding tiny click zones. Some are challengingly well hidden, others are just kind of absurd.
48 found this helpful, 2014-12-29
I believe most of the negative reviews are based on the assumption that this is a point-n-click adventure but make no mistake, this is a hidden object game. But a nice one at that, so if you like that kind of game, you might find it enjoyable. There are two major faults though. First, the game is rather short. It took me about 2 hours to finish, and 10€, I expected more. Second, the writing (or rather the...
41 found this helpful, 2015-07-05
The game is okay, I guess... (It was on sale in a bundle and cost like 1.50€) It is different from all the other Frogwares Sherlock Holmes games which are mainly point-and-click adventures. This one is a Hidden Object game with puzzles in between. Even on the highest difficulty the game is pretty easy. A few objects are annoyingly small or have nearly the same colour as the background (clicking all over the screen...
10 found this helpful, 2021-03-13
I'm not going to dump on this game simply because it's a hidden-object game, but here are some observations in finishing this game (which took about 9 hours): * Many of the puzzles are harder than they are interesting, making the game uninteresting (and frustrating) at times. * Graphics and music are actually quite good considering this is a casual game from 2008 (2010 for Apple, haha!). * People who buy this game...
10 found this helpful, 2018-06-08
The Good: At times, it could be a fun hidden object game with decent puzzles. The OK: The story, I guess. The plot and overall case was fine, as long as you realize this is an older game, with a simpler story line following a hidden object search. If you're ok with that, it was decent enough. The Bad: As many other reviews said, some of the hidden objects were really nonsensical to find, and a few of the...
5 found this helpful, 2023-04-08
Just Awful. Heres a shocker, I dont actually mind Hidden Object titles. I know! The world will now end and fire will rain down from the sky! That said however, I dispise this title. Why? Its commits a multitide of lazy 'Casual' game sins. Firstly having a soundtrack that seems to consist of the same one or two short tunes played on a repeated loop. Secondly is putting in no support for anything other than a small...
29 found this helpful, 2013-11-26
This isn't typical Sherlock's point-and-click adventure game as it's basically a hidden object game. Although there is no voice acting, the scenes are mainly "stolen" from the previous games (especially from The Secret of the Silver Earring), music is on loop and it has mostly negative reviews on Steam I have enjoyed it in the end much more than the full-fledged Nemesis. For me the highlights of this game would be...
5 found this helpful, 2023-02-17
Game received as part of a Nov 2025 Humble Bundle. It would be easy to think this would be a point-and-click mystery but it’s more a hidden-object, with puzzles. I played on ‘Detective’ mode which gives 5 hints each chapter and three puzzle skips for the whole game. I played without the timer as I wanted something relaxed. This difficulty felt fair, there were a couple puzzles that I had to brute-force but none that...
3 found this helpful, 2025-11-09
I installed this game hoping to enjoy it. A "casual" game should have been enjoyable: moderately challenging without being impossible. Unfortunately, two major issues prevent me from recommending this game. The first, and most frustrating one, is that many of the items we're supposed to find are extremely difficult to find. Some are difficult because they're so small; others blend into the background. I had to...
13 found this helpful, 2014-06-29