Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter similar games & best alternatives

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Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2016

Should you play it?

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…

What works

  • Engaging detective story and cases
  • Immersive victorian london atmosphere
  • Varied puzzles and gameplay mechanics
  • Freedom in deductions and multiple endings
  • Good graphics and sound design

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length and limited replayability
  • Some clunky controls and animations
  • Frequent loading screens
  • Some frustrating or excessive minigames
  • Price considered high at full cost

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

  • Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

  • Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

  • The Council

  • Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure

  • Thief

Less expressive

Games that feels like Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter but with less self-expression and customization

  • Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper

  • The Beast Inside

  • The Story of Henry Bishop

  • ASYLUM

  • Remothered: Tormented Fathers

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Resident Evil

  • SONG OF HORROR COMPLETE EDITION

  • Resident Evil 2

  • Tormented Souls 2

  • Tormented Souls

  • Penumbra Overture

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments

  • Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

  • The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

  • Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles

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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: The Devil's Daughter: 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 Thrill, Strategy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Intimacy.

Last update: 03/08/2026