Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Case of the Mystified Murderess

TD;DR: Not for player who only plays/played modern games. Great mystery that is not holding your hand and walking you to the solution. Great game. You are not guided through the solution. I struggled to reach the end, because i figured i would get a big thing (modern game logic), even if i had the story down in my head. So I ended up clicking around a lot, until I figured out I just needed to click the judge button...

0 found this helpful, 2026-07-22

It's a deceptively simple Sherlock Holmes Visual Novel (FMV Style Game) with interactions where you send Scotland Yard and/or the Irregular Ones to go and find you information, then you present your case to the Judge but if you don't have ALL of the information the Case doesn't go ahead, and whilst that's a handy barometer to showcase whether or not you're on the right track it would be better if the game had a "bad...

0 found this helpful, 2026-06-05

This is my first time playing a Sherlock Holmes CD mystery and, overall, I didn't like it. First, I'll note that it was broken for me as I could not access a key file entry. Every other file entry worked except for that one for some reason. Also, specific to this one, it's not too hard to figure out the general pattern of what was going on but one of the key details is ridiculous and there aren't really any hints...

0 found this helpful, 2026-05-04