"Makes me feel more like I'm lost in Holmes' mind palace"

Felt delightfully cosy and smug while playing SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE AWAKENED

- MATT ELLIOTT

Dampness and comic horror go hand in clammy hand.

It's bad enough coming to the slow and devastating realization that you're a meaningless speck in a vast, indifferent, and unfathomably alien universe. But doing it with damp shoes is so much worse. And while Frogwares' other Lovecraftian tale, The Sinking City, surpasses Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened in terms of sheer overall moistness, this is a more thoughtfully paced and enjoyable game.

I’m lucky enough to be playing it on a night when wind and rain are battering my windows, much like they do in-game at 221B Baker Street. I was already sold on the presentation of