Unfortunately, we didn’t love prequel detective-‘em-up Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One, but Frogwares is committed to populating its tropical open world with new content. The game’s first story-based DLC expansion, Beyond a Joke, is available to download on the PS Store now; it’ll cost you £3.99/$4.99 individually, or is included as part of the Season Pass.
Billed as a one-hour add-on, “Sherlock has to face off against a master thief who is targeting Cordona’s ultra-rich and doing so with brazen gusto and open mockery”. Two further story mission will release in 2022, based on “Sherlock’s brother Mycroft and a mysterious shadow figure, only known as M”.
Will you be playing this new mission, or did you give Chapter One a wide berth after its muted reviews? Solve the case in the comments section below.
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I was going to buy this day one, but now I'm going to wait until all the DLC is released before I dive in. Hopefully, a lot of the gameplay and framerate issues will be patched out by then.
I absolutely love this game. Been playing it with my mum and brother all trying to work out the cases together and it works really well in that scenario. It’s utterly bonkers, really quite funny and the cases are the right level of twisty-turney. I guess I can understand some of the middling reviews as solutions to puzzles can be a bit obtuse, the frame-rate is… variable if I’m being generous and the disguise mechanic is just bizarre. It’s so much more than the sum of its parts though, especially when you do things like blow a foghorn seductively to charm an elephant. Very much looking forward to the DLC cases.
Mysterious shadow figure only known as 'M'? I wonder who that could be
I'll definitely go back and finish this DLC as I enjoyed the base game, flawed that it is. Hopefully the DLC is worth the extra cash we had to fork out for Deluxe Edition.
@Cherip-the-Ripper It's, you guessed it...Frank Stallone.
No what is a joke is a game which has chapter 1 at the end of its title getting paid DLC. Maybe try finishing releasing the whole game series first before trying to rip people off with DLC? Oh and also a disc release when it's all done.
Still waiting for a $25 sale that includes all DLC before I touch this game.
@MyThoughts31 wth are you talking about the game was finished these are just extra cases. Oh and the chapter one was just to refer to this as a prequel and the first Sherlock Holmes adventure lore wise. There isn’t no chapter 2,3 etc.
@MyThoughts31 The DLC have nothing to do with the base game. They’re basically side quests for a couple of quid.
I LOVED this game. Couldnt stop playing it. Best game in past few months. Better than halo campaign. I am shocked at middling reviews. Try sinking city on deep sale. If u like it then u will love this. Same game with humor instead of horror.
If we stick with the book analogy of using Chapters, then what would the DLC be? Story-based DLC would be endnotes? Cosmetic DLC would be footnotes?
If I buy the game from the US PS Store, which works on my UK account, I presumably have to buy the DLC from the US Store too for it to work?
Love Sherlock Holmes story/world from books.
Notice frogware released a couple of other games prior to this.
Are they good, worth playing 1st? Or should I jump straight to chapter 1 for best experience?
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