Games like Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One
Closest overall match: The Sinking City (★ 3.4). Highest rated: Judgment (2019) at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: The Sinking City at about 2 hours.
We compared Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. What ties them together most: Narration, Detective and Crime.
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62%
1. The Sinking City
Shares Investigation, Thriller, Narration, Detective and Multiple Endings and 7 more tags; same developer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 69
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 60%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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61%
2. The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me
Shares Psychological, Narration, Drama, Crime and Steam Trading Cards and 8 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 93%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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59%
3. Strange Brigade
Shares Full controller support, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 3.3
- Metacritic
- 72
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 57%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, 7
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58%
4. Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
Shares Investigation, Crime, Detective, Story and Mystery and 4 more tags.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 82%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, 7
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58%
5. Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Shares Crime, Detective, Mystery, Third Person and Open World and 4 more tags; same developer.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Metacritic
- 65
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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58%
6. We Were Here
Shares Mystery, Steam Cloud, Steam Achievements and Singleplayer.
- Year
- 2017
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 63
- Playtime
- 2h
- Finish rate
- 88%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4, 7
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56%
7. Twin Mirror
Shares environment, Thriller, Psychological, city and Narration and 9 more tags; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2020
- Rating
- ★ 3.4
- Metacritic
- 62
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 78%
- Shared genres
- 3
-
56%
8. Lost Judgment
Shares Investigation, Drama, Crime, Detective and Action-Adventure and 5 more tags; rated 0.8 higher; about 7h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 83%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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56%
9. A Plague Tale: Requiem
Shares Emotional, Narration, Drama, Steam Trading Cards and Mystery and 7 more tags; rated 0.7 higher; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2022
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Playtime
- 5h
- Finish rate
- 86%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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55%
10. Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Shares Emotional, Narration, Steam Trading Cards, Choices Matter and combat and 7 more tags.
- Year
- 2024
- Rating
- ★ 3.7
- Playtime
- 3h
- Finish rate
- 67%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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55%
11. Judgment (2019)
Shares Investigation, Drama, Crime, Detective and Action-Adventure and 5 more tags; rated 0.9 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 9h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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55%
12. The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
Shares Multiple Endings, Choices Matter, Mystery, Action-Adventure and Third Person and 1 more tags; rated 0.4 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2021
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 73
- Playtime
- 6h
- Finish rate
- 93%
- Shared genres
- 3, 4
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One?
On our similarity model, The Sinking City is the closest match to Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One — shares Investigation, Thriller, Narration, Detective and Multiple Endings and 7 more tags; same developer; released within 2 years.
Which game like Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One is rated highest?
Judgment (2019) holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 63 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.