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2023PCPlayStationXboxNintendo SwitchSteam Deck playable81 % positive39.99 €

Sherlock Holmes investigates a Lovecraftian nightmare of disappearances, riddles and cosmic dread. An atmospheric detective adventure centered on observing, deducing and solving puzzles.

  • Historical setting
  • Dread and tension
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow

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2022PCNintendo SwitchSteam Deck verified92 % positive12.49 €

Brings what grabs you about Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened: dread and tension, a historical setting as well as a strong story.

A folk horror point-and-click adventure set in Victorian England, where antiquarian Thomasina Bateman investigates the secrets of an ancient barrow on the gloomy moors. Moody pixel art, creeping dread and a strong narrative define the experience.

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Dark, serious atmosphere

An atmospheric 2D horror adventure set in 1960s martial-law Taiwan, where you sneak through a haunted school and solve puzzles as a student. It blends political repression with Taiwanese folk religion and myth for a deeply unsettling story.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

Dark, serious atmosphere

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Still Life

Dark, serious atmosphere

A grim point-and-click crime thriller where you play FBI agent Victoria and her grandfather Gustav, investigating two eerily similar murder sprees set 75 years apart. Clue-hunting and puzzles drive the experience.

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Historical setting

A dark point-and-click thriller set in Paris, where you play a former detective with clairvoyant visions hunting a killer tied to occult rituals. Puzzles and interrogations drive a dense conspiracy story.

Kona II: Brume

Dark, serious atmosphere

In Kona II you step into detective Carl Faubert in 1970 northern Quebec, where a strange mist cuts a mining village off from reality. You piece together clues and solve puzzles while fighting to survive in a tense, unsettling mystery.

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