the demo

[valienpire]

people who got the Kickstarter exclusive demo, how was your experience? what's new, what's the same? please share your thoughts with the rest of us 😅

[residentvl]

i just played through it on steamdeck and it was fun for sure. its gonna need polish for sure but not out yet obviously. theyre definitely going for a creepier vibe than previous titles ive tried. not horror game from what is shown here but it is still closer to crime and punishment overall i think. this could be one of their best titles if it all comes together in the end.

[Hoss Jones]

So after playing the demo and 100 percenting it (yes, you can actually do that), I can say that the game feels like a hybrid of the older more point and click style Holmes games with the same movement and mechanics as Chapter One. It feels a lot better to play than it sounds and although I miss the Crimes and Punishments style of gameplay where you could get culprits wrong, I do appreciate the more linear approach they went with here since the challenge this time comes from figuring out what your supposed to do. The game luckily gave me everything I needed in order to figure out the solution in a very clear and concise way.

I don't think this game will be breaking any new boundaries or anything, but I find the idea of remaking their older games in this smaller scale style with their newer mechanics to be a pretty neat idea. Hopefully they'll also do some more like this.

[TopcatPlayer]

Just finished the demo, that was a lot of fun with a creepy vibe. Takes the best of the previous series so fans of this franchise wont be disappointed.

[joridiculous]

I hate it. Same stupid pinning of random evidence to have something maybe trigger, happen, highlight, etc. as in Chapter one. Horrible game decision. Completely ruins the immersion.
Crime and Punishment is still the best SH game ever made. Why the heck they drifted so far from the very well working mechanics is unbelievable