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Once deductions are connected together, player will have a full tree of deductions. It will lead to possible different deductions. Once discovered, clues are added to a "deduction board," a gameplay mechanic which involves linking pieces of information together. The majority of the game involves exploring crime scenes and examining clues. Watson, Toby (a Basset Hound) and Constable Marrow playable briefly. Sherlock Holmes is the main playable character with Dr. Its title is a play on the title of the Russian novel Crime and Punishment by author Fyodor Dostoyevsky, which Sherlock is frequently seen reading during the game. The game is split into six cases of murders, disappearances and thefts written in the tradition of Doyle novels. The game is the first in the series to use the Unreal Engine 3, and was inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories. The game takes place in London and its suburbs in 18 with gameplay focused on finding the right culprit and making the moral choice of absolving or condemning them. In December 2021, Frogwares announced a port of the game for the Nintendo Switch, which subsequently released on February 3, 2022. In October 2019, Frogwares announced it regained the publishing rights to the title on Steam and the game reappeared on other platforms in the start of 2020.
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes & Punishments is an adventure mystery video game in the Sherlock Holmes series developed by Frogwares in 2014 and distributed by Focus Home Interactive from 2014 to 2019 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One.