Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker

Detective Sherlock: Shadow Stalker is a mystery deduction game in which you play as Sherlock Holmes in 19th-century Dartmoor. You investigate curses, lies and murders by finding clues and questioning dozens of AI-driven characters. There are no fixed dialogue choices or single standard answers: you can speak to characters freely, and their reactions and the story respond to your actions.

The Baskerville case

At Baskerville Hall, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead near the moor, with no obvious wounds and traces of a large hound nearby. The legend of the demonic hound returns, terrifying the new heir, Sir Henry. The butler refuses to speak, the doctor is evasive and the inspector wants to close the case.

After Holmes is invited to the estate by his friend Mortimer, more deaths follow, including a mutilated corpse on the moor and a woman found in the fountain of a neighboring estate. You investigate whether these cases are connected and what lies behind the Baskerville curse.

Question the characters

You can chat with, interrogate, test, deceive, comfort, threaten, bribe, praise or mislead characters. Each has their own personality, secrets, memories, emotions and attitude toward you. They remember what you say and adjust their trust based on how you treat them; they may lie, slip up, question you, gossip, shift blame or break down under pressure.

Use conversation, evidence, gifts, items and emotional pressure to get past characters’ defenses. Their secrets may conceal clues, which connect as you work toward the truth.

Evidence and endings

The game contains hundreds of items that you can use as evidence or give as gifts. Characters react according to their personalities and the situation: a doctor may welcome a scalpel, while a lady may take offense. Reactions can include blushing, anger, cold laughter or pulling a gun.

Your words, completed tasks, collected clues and use of items shape the story through AI-driven changes and multiple hidden endings. Accuse the wrong person and Holmes may face a framing scandal; conceal key evidence and a supposedly dead baron may appear years later.

Story and voice acting

The full story progression and ending for the Early Access version are complete, with full voice-over and subtitles.