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.

  • 2.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

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.

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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.
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
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