Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

It isn't perfect, but as someone who loves the character "Sherlock Holmes," I think it does a great job scratching the itch of detective work without being too hard to follow. Unlike other of Frogwares Sherlock games, I did not have to look up how to progress a quest in this game. Although I did need to get a little help with a puzzle here and there. (skill issue on my part.) This is a good middle ground to the two other games I have played so far, Chapter One and one of their older games. I wished more of the cases were more interwoven with each other, but I can appreciate that they were trying something different. What I have grown to appreciate about these games is that there are still the core gameplay mechanics throughout the games, yet each one has it's own unique twist. In this case, (pun intended) the game was divided into "cases".

Overall, It is great if you like puzzle games that are a little open world. Even in this newer game, some of the puzzles still give the retro-detective puzzle vibe that people who play these games like. I could critique the game all day, But it is best for people to just appreciate the game for what it is and go for the story ride. :)

A solid rework released 2 years after Crimes and Punishments from 2014.
More freedom to explore as you can street roam which equals better immersion, also minigames turned into real, longer game mechanics.
Lots of cool locations - Baker Street, Scotland Yard police station, poor district, roofs, villa forest, Boules club, blacksmith, hospital, archeologist house, temple, taverrn, monastery, sewers, cementery, boat.

Graphics seem more realistic, but lost some of the previous game’s charm.
I wasn't enjoying sneaking parts.
It crashed once, which is a 10 times better compared to the last game.

I still liked Crimes and Punishments more, but this was pretty decent! :)

good game

Great game! I wish there were more campaigns, because its addicting!

story rich, excellent voice-over, and cinematic.

recommended; Bought on deep sale
overall review:

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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I love puzzle games and this one is definitely a good game. The story was nice and the cases are awesome. I just would have liked more interactions with the dog.

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☑ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boy
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ It's free, but... it's very difficult to play without spending money
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Newbie Friendly }---
☑ You got a friend in me!
☑ Easy if you've played similar games
☐ One or two tutorials on YouTube
☐ Not so easy
☐ Oooh f#©k...
☐ Where do I click? How do I play?... Alt+F4!

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ Servers }---
☑ Single Player
☐ Coop Local/Online
☐ Only NA
☐ Half of the world NA/Europe/Asia
☐ The whole world

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Great game that works great on Steam Deck.

Great game

Daughter. 7.5/10

Similar to other games in the franchise. Too many QTE for my taste but if you don't mind those it is pretty good. Would recommend buying on sale as the game is pretty short.

Very rough around the edges, but still enjoyable. From my memory, I liked Crimes and Punishments more, this felt more rushed, I guess. Particularly mini games in ep 1 and 2 feel like they should have been like, twice shorter at least, and the QTE at the bar felt a bit weird with controls and what games wants you to do. But still this is a curious case of modernizing the old school adventure genre, and we don't get many of those anymore.

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This game differs from Crime and Punishments (C&P), it has more challenging moment in it and cases are more complex even on the "easy mode". Graphic is not as pleasing in my opinion and i missed old version of Watson. Also this game was darker atmosphere wise.
I liked that apart from cases it has an overall story revolving his daughter. I love the fact that it is not hard to get all achievements on the first playthrough.
In conclusion, I liked this game, but C&P i liked more. :)

Sherlock Holmes

and the Case of How This Game Has a Lot of Good Elements But is Very Mid

The first case started strong, but as the game went on it felt slightly tedious, so much of the game is spent on not deducing, but puzzle mini-games. I think the developers knew that the puzzle mini-games might be annoying to some, so they made them skip-able, but I feel like if every one of them was skipped, the game would be cut short by at least a third. Another frustrating part was that puzzles and deduction information seemed very arbitrary. For example a mechanism where you had to deduce the sequence of things that happened, but some of the events could have arguably happened simultaneously and there isn't a mechanism that lets Sherlock point you to the right direction, so you just have to manually reset all 13 items again. Some of the solves also seem arbitrary, there's not a lot of solid evidence in this game towards the end, I think red herrings in detective fiction should send them on a wild goose case, leading to a somewhat dead end, the game doesn't really do that, towards the end often it ends up being a "most probable" leap of faith, but I feel like that doesn't stick to the original's phrase "When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." There's nothing to rule out the others except vibes.

And the ENDING OMG (I don't really spoil the plot, just spoiling the plot device).
The ending being in a dream sequence that just literally ends the game as a dream sequence made me so frustrated. You built up so much of this story line then decide to have it play out in a dream sequence? Just to end it there? It was so weird having the character of Sherlock suddenly suspend disbelief when crazy stuff happened, but also having a game with a plot device that has moral decisions. There wasn't even a post-dream-sequence where that dream sequence informed your real life choice.

My main issue with this game is sometimes feels so guided, which is fine, a way to make players feel like Sherlock Holmes is to give them Sherlock's super-powers, but then there are puzzles suddenly you had thousands of possibilities with almost no guidance and IMO arbitrary answers.

I find the game to be too linear. Could be wrong expectations since this was my first Sherlock Holmes game.

لعبة جميلة و ممتعة

Not Worth It. The Prequel had great optimization but this one was having a lot of frame drops and stutters so it ruined my experience.

Game has great graphics but the optimisation is not that great.
Most of the puzzles are genuinely fun while some are just too long - killing the flow of the game.
The story/the cases is what stuck me through to finish the game and it was definitely worth it.
If You're anything into the Sherlock Holmes universe this is a no brainer.
Otherwise pretty good adventure/detective game so I recommend to pick up on sale.
If I had to give this game a rating it would be a solid 7/10.

The old creepy Sherlock was ditched in favor of a young Jon Hamm lookalike, but other than that, this is probably the best game in the series (out of the ones I've played at least). It has the best of both of the previous games: separate cases as well as an overarching story. I could've done without the stealth segments though

This game to me strikes quite near "the middle".... that intangible, grey hard-to-describe layer in the middle.....
Is it a terrible game? no.... it's well enough made, did not encounter any big issues and the elements are there.....
It is just that it doesn't click.... in any way really..... If we take it as a fully journey.... it most definitely doesn't add up, no progression, barely any growth to see, no anything...... If we take it as individual cases..... things are just all over the place, a pseudo explorable mini individual universe that just feels barren and void.
Some of the puzzles (honestly very very few of those, i have finished the game and can only think of two....) can be more on the entertaining side, actual thought process and interpreting your surroundings...... but most of the game is a lot of random guessing without any solid element to back it up...... just made up of some trial & error.... and repeating until getting "the right way"...... same with cases definition & portraits.... with very few exceptions, there's a lot of unjustified guessing and simply getting the "right conclusion" or not based on that composition

I was encouraged to play this and even got some recommendations comparing this to the wolf among us.... well, it ain't nothing like it. No build-up.... no tension..... no investment.... nothing

Didn't enjoy this one much

I wanted to play a detective game not an action game. The last mission felt very weird in a "real life" setting

if you like games like the walking dead or the wolf among us then this is a yes

This has to be one of my absolute favourites out of the series.

I love how they expanded on crimes and punishments, adding new mechanics, a semi explorable world, and just a lot more to do! Again these games do get quite tedious but that adds to the life of sherlock holmes.

I really love the underlying story throughout this one, it's spooky in the best way!! Definitely give this one a try, it had me laughing a lottt and had me so excited to get through each case. Definitely a must if you love investigative games!

Another great Sherlock Holmes game!

Sherlock Holmes: Devils Daughter is a good adventure game, but not in my favorite detective games.

Devil's daughter is a continuation of the Frogwares Sherlock Holmes series. It fits comfortably in the mixed category of detective games, containing both detective themes, and detecting mechanics. You play as Holmes and some associates, solving 6 varied crimes around London.

This formula worked well for me in the previous game, Crimes and Punishments. Here however, something didn't click for me. I found the action sequences, especially the Indiana Jones section to significantly outstay their welcome. I also found many of the deductions to make much less sense than in previous games, requiring a lot more just guessing.

It's still a solid game, but between this installment and Crimes and Punishments, I prefer the latter's focus more on the detecting, and not on stealth sections or tomb raiding.

If you want a more adventure heavy games with some detecting in the mix, this should be a great game for you!

Another good Sherlock Holmes game from Frogware, tho not nearly as good as "The Awakened" or "Crimes & Punishment." I enjoyed the cases, but the tedium of certain stage puzzles killed the flow of a few (especially the sewer segment in Chain Reaction). If you liked the others, you'll probably like this.

I loved Jack the Ripper. This one was even better. Broken into five separate cases made for an entertaining time. Deduction and imagination are key and high marks are given to the developers for extreme creativity. There was a wide variety of puzzles, deductions, bullet time action decisions, mixed with some hand eye coordination with mouse and keyboard. The stories themselves were phenomenal, with a grand overarching storyline that made the whole game conclude nicely and became more impactful. Deducing what happens after compiling evidence makes one feel like a detective. And then, when it's all solved there are two options, playing on Holme's and your moralities. Do I let a father who robbed from a bank and killed some gang members to get money to save his daughter or do I imprison him as "Violence is never an example of love" - Holmes. I did the latter...later I found out the daughter died. :( Still, had a blast for the entire time playing, except one small silly snafu in "Chain Reaction" that almost derailed me. Highly recommend.

The final scene of the game had a profound impact on me. I felt so sorry for Kate; her vulnerability and desperation were heartbreaking.

Like the puzzles and the graphics

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Honestly,I'd say go for it
- The overall story is interesting
- The cases are interesting
- The gameplay is interesting aswell
- I heard the "true" game is in hard mode,which I haven't played but I still had fun.
- The game mostly consist in murder cases where you'll have to go on the crime scene,gather clues,talk to suspect,examine evidences and also make a portrait of people to see who they are (like noticing a person has yellow fingers cuz of smoking,that one has fake jewels to make it look like they're rich,etc)
- The game has a few puzzles that you can skip most of the time if they get too hard or if you're not interested,the game also has QTEs (quick time event) that are easy for the biggest part and the hardest ones can be skipped if needed (except that one annoying scene in the bar lmao).
- I liked the voice acting,whether it's the French or the English one.
- I didn't encounter bugs,atleast I don't think so.
- The possibility to decide how and when a case end is great,you have a menu where you can look at your conclusions and change them according to the new clues you have and what you believe. A case will never have 1 correct solution,each case has multiple endings and you get to decide them,none of the endings are the "perfect ending" but atleast you get to make your own perfect ending. Including the possibility to condamn or forgive the criminal.

So yeah,I think you should give it a shot,it's not too expensive and I'd say the game aged pretty well.

i absolutely loved the plot and the deduction part. the game was extremely laggy on my laptop but it wasn't that big of a deal to me. if it wasn't for the skip button i would've rage quit so adding it to the game was an excellent idea. it might be my new favourite game now actually. 10/10.

Great story! ❤️

still not a fan of how these play

It isn't bad but overall it's just Sherlock Holmes: crimes and punishments with better graphics but less interesting cases, some of which make absolutely no sense.

I recommend this game, although I liked Crimes and Punishments better. The only thing I liked better here were the concentration tasks, where you had to hold the two sticks in two circles with the controller. The story was also better here because the individual cases were held together by an overarching case. But I didn't think the lock-picking was that good, and the categorisation of the people (deduction) didn't convince me either. I found the action scenes totally annoying because they were too long. Constantly dying is simply no fun. I also found some of the visualisation puzzles too long. But the game still entertained me. At first, I thought: ‘Never again Sherlock Holmes’, but then I bought The Awakened in the sale.

never got to finish the game cuz the final level broke and wouldn't let me pick on the next clue.
Aside from that? it's alright

Not as good as older games, still doesnt work correctly with ultrawide monitors. And is more like running game then detective.

nice

Great chapter, I enjoyed it really much.

Great game, good mechanics a cut above the normal, well worth a play

Game is mid. The animation is superb, but the story-telling is lacking. There are times that some scenes do not make any sense, like if you remove them, it will not affect the story whatsoever. The stories, if you will read it from the book, will be amazing at it is, by which this game has failed to do so. Anyways, I'll rate it 6/10.

I remember how much i wanted this game to play it and when i got the chance i remember how much i loved the graphics, the sounds and the story. Probably there should be a lot of idea to make more and more Sherlock games, but the question is, peoples wanted to see it and play it?
There is not much word for it to say why really good is it or how good is it, beacuse its like just to watch the movie, the series and who like that type, its definetly get it what it is wanted.

I was having a lot of fun playing until I got to the end of the first case. I couldn't without reasonable doubt say which was the right conclusion. It was like the writing was amiss to place a nail in someones coffin.

Pretty short, but a fun experience.

A decent Sherlock game! It feels a bit too short for a 30 euro price tag (I beat it 100% with all achievements in only 12 hours), so I recommend getting it on sale.

Another con - the janky controls (sometimes unresponsive), which can be a detriment during the minigames, and the deductions don't always make logical sense (e.g. smokers have yellow nails only on the hand they use to smoke with, not on both like in the game ).

Overall the story was interesting and the cases were good.

It was so much fun for me, perfect for puzzle and mystery lovers with some blood rush action additions that aren't utterly annoying and overly stressful. Some moral choices are made a bit lacking, but overall, it's a very fun brain stimulant to relax.