Holmes Abroad

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.