Games like Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
If Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Sinking City Remastered, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One and Nowhere — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Frogwares delivers a detective adventure rooted in the Lovecraftian tradition. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened sends the famous detective to investigate a series of disappearances across Europe and the United States, confronting eldritch horrors tied to the Cthulhu Mythos. Players explore open environments, gather evidence, and make choices that shape the investigation. Reviewers highlight the psychological horror atmosphere and the quality of the narrative. The game is playable on Steam Deck and offers roughly medium-length content designed for solo play. It carries a challenging difficulty suited to players comfortable with methodical detective work. Priced at $39.99 USD, it holds an 82% positive rating from over 1,000 Steam reviews.
About Sherlock Holmes The Awakened: Experience a nerve-racking Lovecraftian adventure, rebuilt from the ground up with modern graphics and gameplay. Become Sherlock Holmes, and find yourself at the heart of the terrifying Cthulhu Mythos as you investigate a series of mysterious disappearances in Europe and the US.
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The Sinking City Remastered
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Top pick for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
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Second-strongest match for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Nowhere
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Third-strongest match for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Nowhere is a Nordic inspired Narrative Mystery/Horror game. Telling the tale of what happened to the Norse Gods after Ragnarok when their worship ended. Nowhere features a unique blend of realistic detective gameplay and survival horror in Nordic aesthetics.
CyberCook
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Ranked #4 for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
A cyberpunk PS1-style cooking game, serve up more than just food. Slice through enemies, decide their fates, and uncover dark secrets hidden within your dystopian kitchen.
Call of Cthulhu®
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Ranked #5 for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
1924. Private Investigator Pierce is sent to look into the tragic death of the Hawkins family. Plunge into a world of creeping madness and cosmic horror. Cryptic clues, shadowy figures, and pure terror bar your way as you fight to retain your sanity and solve an otherworldly mystery.
DESOLATIUM
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Ranked #6 for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
DESOLATIUM is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
DESOLATIUM: Prologue
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Ranked #7 for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
DESOLATIUM: PROLOGUE is a first-person point & click Graphic Adventure based on Lovecraft Mythos. Live this horror story where you will have to visit mysterious locations, face lovecraftian creatures, find clues and combine objects to solve puzzles.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
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Ranked #8 for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
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Reviewers of Sherlock Holmes The Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Sherlock Holmes The Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
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Reviewers of Sherlock Holmes The Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
The Sinking City Remastered
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Reviewers of Sherlock Holmes The Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
L.A. Noire
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Reviewers of Sherlock Holmes The Awakened cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
In his fight to climb the ranks and do what's right, LAPD detective Cole Phelps must unravel the truth behind a string of arson attacks, conspiracies, and brutal murders, battling the L.A. underworld and even members of his own department.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sherlock Holmes The Awakened at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~75% under Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~63% under Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~50% under Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
PEAK
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Priced ~80% under Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Don't Starve Together
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Priced ~63% under Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Inscryption
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Priced ~80% under Sherlock Holmes The Awakened on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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More from Frogwares
Other recommendable Steam games by Frogwares, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
WHY THIS
Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Experience a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration in a breath-taking thriller that will test the limits of your nerves and intelligence. Play as the great detective and track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the human soul…
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
WHY THIS
Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Become the most celebrated detective of all time: Sherlock Holmes! Use your impressive talents as a detective to solve six thrilling and varied cases: murders, missing persons, spectacular thefts and numerous investigations that sometimes lead you into the realms of the fantastic.
The Sinking City Remastered
WHY THIS
Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, The Sinking City Remastered brings the eerie, atmospheric world of Oakmont back to life with enhanced gameplay and fully relit environments, perfect for both newcomers and returning players.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
WHY THIS
Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
In this story-driven detective thriller, a young Sherlock Holmes struggles to prove himself as he navigates an exotic, dangerous island in the Mediterranean to investigate the mystery of his mother’s death.
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
WHY THIS
Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Become the greatest detective of all time in The Testament of Sherlock Holmes, a twisting, turning investigation game set in a faithfully-reproduced London of 1898. As Sherlock Holmes, you must find clues, interrogate suspects and unveil a mystery in a story full of twists!
Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper
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Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Recognized as one of the best licenses in gaming and lauded by the press, Sherlock Holmes is back with an investigation that is sure to be the most horrifying of the series. The famous detective stands against the most dangerous serial killer England has ever known - Jack the Ripper.
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)
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Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
The Sherlock Holmes series returns with this updated version of The Awakened, which brings a whole new dimension to the original title developed by Frogwares. The game puts the player into an investigation of the Cthulhu Mythos - as imagined by Father of modern horror, H.P. Lovecraft.
Sherlock Holmes: The Silver Earring
WHY THIS
Another title from Frogwares, the studio behind Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Shares Adventure with Sherlock Holmes The Awakened.
Melvyn Bromsby, a rich tycoon, is about to make a statement, when suddenly a shot rings out. Sir Bromsby collapses - a mortal wound to the heart... A baffling murder, dozens of witnesses and no suspects! You, Sherlock Holmes, must use all your skills to shed light on this mysterious case.
Frequently asked about Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
- Does Sherlock Holmes The Awakened run on Steam Deck?
- Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Sherlock Holmes The Awakened cost?
- Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is listed on Steam at 39.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sherlock Holmes The Awakened are The Sinking City Remastered, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, Nowhere.
- Who developed Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
- Sherlock Holmes The Awakened was developed by Frogwares.
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