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Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper

PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox 360 • 2009

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Engaging and historically inspired story
  • Immersive victorian london atmosphere
  • Logical and varied puzzles
  • Deduction and crime scene reconstruction mechanics
  • Voice acting and sound design

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical bugs especially with saving
  • Some puzzles require outside knowledge or are unintuitive
  • Dated graphics and animations
  • Occasional frustrating backtracking
  • Lack of autosave and manual saving required

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Root Of Evil: The Tailor

  • Black Mirror II

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2008)

  • Still Life

  • Black Mirror I

  • Gemini Rue

Less violent

Games that feels like Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper but with less combat and destruction

  • Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis

  • Dark Fall: The Journal

  • Paper Bride

  • The Room 4: Old Sins

  • Gray Matter

  • Syberia

More survival-focused

Games that feels like Sherlock Holmes versus Jack the Ripper but with a stronger survival pressure

  • Evil Nun: The Broken Mask

  • Penumbra Overture

  • Homebody

  • Corpse Party: Blood Drive

  • Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

  • Alone in the Dark

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • The Testament of Sherlock Holmes

  • Sherlock Holmes - Nemesis

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of The Baskervilles

  • Dracula: Origin

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter

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.
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  • 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 versus Jack the Ripper: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Survival, Expression.

Last update: 03/08/2026