Holmes Abroad
Sherlock Travel Detective Game
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Three new cases: a sexton beneath Copenhagen's Jesuskirken, a translator on the Quai d'Orsay, and a printer killed in another man's coat in Bleeding Heart Yard.
HOLMES ABROAD is a detective game you walk through — literally or from your
armchair. Each case is a self-contained mystery in a real city circa
1890–1905, narrated by a custom voice cast and scored with original
period-appropriate music.
YOU ARE NOT HOLMES. You are his Watson-like associate, ungendered and
unnamed, observing what Holmes points out and forming your own judgments.
Holmes is with you in the field; at the end of each case, he performs his
five-act conclusion — and you discover whether your reading matched his.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
• Real places, real history. Walk Vienna's Innere Stadt, Amsterdam's
Plantagebuurt, Copenhagen's old Valby, Paris's Faubourg Saint-Germain,
or London's Clerkenwell — every location you investigate exists on the
ground today.
• Two play modes. AFOOT mode uses your GPS to gate each location behind
physical proximity — you must arrive to investigate. ARMCHAIR mode
unlocks the whole map for play from home.
• Fully voiced. Every narrative beat, every witness statement, every
Holmes deduction is performed by a custom voice cast. No text-to-speech
filler.
• No hand-holding. Witnesses lie, evade, hedge, and contradict each
other. The game does not tell you who to trust. You judge for yourself,
then commit to your answer.
• Period-authentic. The 1890s map style, the soundscapes (gas-lamp
hisses, hansom-cab wheels, distant church bells), and the witness
speech patterns are all researched and built for each case.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
• Case 4 — The Yellow Book Murder (London, 1894). FREE entry case.
• Case 1 — The von Ehrenstein Affair (Vienna, 1891). €4.99 unlock.
• Case 2 — The Provisionist (Amsterdam, 1893). €4.99 unlock.
• Case 3 — The Cutter's Weight (Amsterdam, 1896). €4.99 unlock.
• Case 5 — The Brewer's Crypt (Copenhagen, 1895). €4.99 unlock.
• Case 6 — The Quai d'Orsay Translation (Paris, 1896). €4.99 unlock.
• Case 7 — Bleeding Heart Yard (London, 1904). €4.99 unlock.
Each paid case is a single non-consumable purchase — buy once, owned
forever, restored on reinstall via "Restore Purchases."
PRIVACY
Location is checked on-device only in AFOOT mode. Coordinates are never
stored, never transmitted, never associated with you. The app makes no
analytics calls beyond crash reporting (Sentry, fully anonymized).
THE SEVEN-CASE SLATE WILL EXPAND. Bleeding Heart Yard is the latest;
more are in production. Cases ship as in-app purchases so the free
entry case never gets larded with paywalls.
Solve the cases that no one was supposed to solve.
Three new cases land in v1.1.0 — and Holmes carries you further across the
continent than ever before.
• Case 5 — The Brewer's Crypt (Copenhagen, November 1895)
A village sexton found at the foot of an unfinished crypt stair on a
morning the constable wrote off as a fall. Walk the old Valby village
before the city draws its lines through, and learn whose fear put an
iron cleat in a frightened man's hand.
• Case 6 — The Quai d'Orsay Translation (Paris, August 1896)
A ministry translator dead at the foot of his own service stair, in the
hottest week of August. The surgeon signed it a misadventure; the whole
quarter would rather it were spies. Walk the Left Bank of 1896 and learn
whose quiet hand stopped a careful man's heart.
• Case 7 — Bleeding Heart Yard (London, October 1904)
A Russian-emigre printer found stabbed in Bleeding Heart Yard during the
Outrage week, when half the country wants to believe the exiles have
done it. The police have a man already, and he will not say where he
was. But the dead man wore another man's coat — and the blade was meant
for that other man.
Plus: improvements to narration mixing, slower music fades on returning
from a case, sharper case-selector map markers, and the new "violet ink"
halo on freshly-discovered locations.
The developer, Orange Wheel, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
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Information
- Seller
- Orange Wheel Advisory ApS
- Size
- 381.3 MB
- Category
- Adventure
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Guns or Other Weapons
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Bleeding Heart Yard $3.99
- The Quai d'Orsay Translation $3.99
- The Brewer's Crypt $3.99
- The Cutter's Weight $3.99
- The Provisionist $3.99
- The Von Ehrenstein Affair $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Orange Wheel Advisory ApS
