Sherlock Holmes Chapter One similar games & best alternatives

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Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2021

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Engaging detective story and cases
  • Open world exploration with many side quests
  • Customization and disguise mechanics
  • Immersive atmosphere and music
  • Multiple endings and moral choices

Things to keep in mind

  • Clunky and frustrating combat system
  • Performance issues and graphical glitches
  • Some cases feel open-ended without clear resolution
  • Lack of hand-holding can confuse new players
  • Limited social interaction and replay value

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

  • The Journey Down: Chapter Two

  • Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

  • Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

  • The Council

  • Yesterday Origins

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Sherlock Holmes Chapter One but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Total Chaos

  • Evil Nun: The Broken Mask

  • Withering Rooms

  • Eternal Evil

  • Tormented Souls

  • The Evil Within 2

Less expressive

Games that feels like Sherlock Holmes Chapter One but with less self-expression and customization

  • Remothered: Tormented Fathers

  • The Story of Henry Bishop

  • 子归 - Blossom

  • The Forgotten City

  • Echoes of the End: Enhanced Edition

  • Call of Cthulhu®

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

  • Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

  • Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

  • The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

  • The Sinking City Remastered

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Sherlock Holmes Chapter One: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026