Sherlock Holmes Is Back In His Most Exciting Adventure Yet

The iconic Super-Sleuth returns, but how does his new caper compare to previous holmes adventures?

For all their fame and success in other media, Messrs Holmes and Watson have never solved the mystery of how to make a great videogame. Yet from the PC-only point-and-clickers to the more-recent Unreal Engine powered incarnations, the Conan Doyle creation has built up a peculiar cult following in gaming form – this despite it comprising a cabal of wholly unremarkable affairs whose clunky dialogue and robotic animations somehow conjure an abject sense of goodwill because, “Hey, at least you get to be a high-functioning sociopath for six hours.”