Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
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Detective adventure focused on mystery, investigation, and crime cases. Released in 2014 by Frogwares, it is self-published under the same developer and publisher slug, with 7,848 Steam reviews and an 89% positive Very Positive rating.
Overview
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments is a 2014 Adventure game developed by Frogwares and published by Frogwares. On Steam it has gathered 7,857 player reviews, 89% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $30. The pairing of developer Frogwares with publisher Frogwares is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 495,000 to 1.2 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
7,857
Positive
89%
Steam appid
241260
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0495K to 1.2M
units (median: 825K)
≈ $8.5M to $19.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2014 | +30 |
| price_$30 | +5 |
| positive_89% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 105 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments at roughly 495,000 to 1.2 million copies, with a median around 825,000, derived from its 7,857 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $14.1M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $15.12Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $15.12 to $29.99, averaging $27.49 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $15.12 on 2026-05-21.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- GOG.com -90%$2.99 Buy
- Fanatical -15%$29.50 Buy
- Steam reference$29.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
- Humble Store
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Platforms
windows
Tags
DetectiveAdventureMysteryInvestigationCrimePuzzleStory RichAtmosphericSingleplayerPoint & ClickChoices MatterHistoricalThird PersonOpen WorldActionFirst-PersonMatureHorrorClassicIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments sold?
- indielist estimates Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments has sold between 494,991 and 1,154,979 units (median 824,985), derived from its 7,857 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments?
- Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments was developed by Frogwares and published by Frogwares.
- When was Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments released?
- Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments was released in 2014.
- How many reviews does Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments have on Steam?
- Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments has 7,857 Steam reviews, of which 89% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Frogwares's other releases and Frogwares's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.