🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
✅Normal (can vary depending on which difficulty you play on as well as how good you are at video games) (And to clarify, i played on normal difficulty)
🔲 Hard
🔲 Dark Souls
🔲 Understanding Dark Souls' story

~ GRAPHICS ~

🔲 MS Paint
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game
✅Good (nothing special)
🔲 Beautiful
🔲 Masterpiece

~ MUSIC ~

🔲 Bad
🔲 Not special
✅Good
🔲 Beautiful

~ Audience ~

🔲 Kids
✅Teens
✅Adults

~ STORY ~

🔲 Bad
🔲 Text or Audio floating around
🔲 Average
✅ Good
🔲 Lovely

~ PRICE ~

🔲 Free
Cheap
✅ Acceptable price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

~ REQUIREMENTS ~

🔲 You can run it on a microwave
✅ Average
🔲 High end
🔲 NASA computer

~ LENGTH ~

🔲 Very Short (0 - 4 hours)
✅ Short (4 - 10 hours)
🔲 Average (10-30 hours)
🔲 Long (30-50 hours) (if you go for everything in the game)
🔲 Extremely long (50-100+ hours)
🔲 No ending

~ FUN ~

🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
🔲 Actually pretty amusing
✅ The kind of fun you'll remember
🔲 Ride of your life

~ REPLAYABILITY ~

🔲 It's a one-time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
🔲 If you wait a few months/years
✅ Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable

~ Bugs ~

🔲 Never heard of
✅ Minor bugs
🔲 Can get annoying
🔲 ARK: Survival Evolved
🔲 The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

~ WORTH BUYING ~

🔲 No
🔲 Wait for sale
✅ Yes

JUST MY OPINION

To be honest, this game irritates me to quite some degree: The story feels disjointed, the characters remain so flat as to make one utterly disinterested in the overarching mystery, you spend seemingly half the game staring at loading screens, almost every puzzle and QTI is skippable (which turns out to be a blessing, since the developers apparently have not checked whether or not these sections are actually playable) and sometimes the writers seemingly could not decide whether they wanted to write a Sherlock game or an Indiana Jones one (i.e. the temple sequence, also known as shoehorning as many random puzzles in a case as possible). Also, which I realise is an entirely petty and personal reason, I just prefer my detectives clean shaven. Why is Sherlock unable to get rid of his beard shadow, even for the sake of a disguise?! You might be asking yourself at this point why I am recommending this game if I dislike it so much? Well, firstly because Steam is not giving me an option to indicate that I am having mixed feelings about and secondly, because for all its faults, this game does have some saving graces. Some of the QTI (those that do not rely on simply mashing buttons as fast and hard as you can) are actually quite thrilling and enjoyable, such as the hunting sequence in the first case. I also enjoyed the deduction mechanic allowing me to reach wrong conclusions and then simply moving on with the game because yes, even Sherlock makes mistakes and playing the law has real-world consequences. From an aesthetic standpoint I must admit that the game looks very nice and polished and as always, I simply adore Alex Jordans voice-acting performance as Sherlock. TLDR: Pacing, characterisation and mechanics could be much improved but if you like your Sherlock games more action and adrenaline based, you will find something to enjoy in Devil's Daughter.

I'm just grateful they didn't turn Sherlock Holmes into a strong black lesbian woman.

Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is a atmospheric detective adventure,that blends classic sleuthing with cinematic flair.
- The game mixes investigation, exploration, and action sequences. You’ll deduce clues, interrogate suspects, and occasionally sneak around or chase villains.
- The cases range from mysterious disappearances to occult themes, with the titular “Devil’s Daughter” arc adding emotional depth.

This game really grasps the essence of being Sherlock Holmes. The entirety of analyzing peoples' behavior and appearance, deciding about future events, living adventures, solving puzzles, searching for clues and connecting them to condemn the true criminal has been implemented extraordinarily well. The whole atmosphere and setting even further immerses oneself into being him and seeing everything through his eyes. The game is rather short, but it is totally worth every second spent in it.

Overall score: 9.5/10.

Ehre.

Not as good as crimes and punishment but still good.

Fun game that had me wanting to keep going to the next section well after I should have quit for the day. There's one really weird bug where the prompt is always somewhere to the left of the thing you're trying to click on, which is annoying because sometimes it's next to impossible to get it to appear. I did feel like certain sections dragged on a bit, like the one in the forest/swamp. I would love to know if there were actually positive and negative consequences to each case rather than just "It's over and this is how you chose to solve it." Your choices don't feel like they hold a ton of weight. Also any time the character profile minigame gives you a choice, you can pick the right one just by looking at the blurred words to the right, which is helpful but feels a bit like cheating.