Frogwares explains how The Sinking City helped shape Sherlock Holmes Chapter One

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Frogwares has been making Sherlock Holmes adventure games for more than two decades. While each of the eight previous Holmes games has players take on the role of the eponymous detective and his traveling companion Dr. Watson, they have also each pushed the adventure game series forward with better graphics and new features while maintaining faithful adherence to abductive reasoning.

In the upcoming next release in the series, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, the developer takes players to the formative years of Sherlock Holmes. The game has players taking control of a 21-year-old Holmes following the death of his mother, as he explores his childhood home on the Mediterranean island of Cordona with the help of not Watson, but his old pal Jon.

We caught up with the developers to speak with them about how the game has evolved over the decades, the inspiration for building a game built around the previously unexplored years of Holmes’ youth, and what can be expected as the game makes the leap to next-gen hardware.

To read the rest of this story, which first ran on Nov. 10, 2021, visit the Epic Games Store.