# Holmes Abroad — Sherlock Travel Detective Game

> Sherlock Travel Detective Game (iPhone/iPad app by Orange Wheel.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/holmes-abroad/id6773679067 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Orange Wheel](https://appshunter.io/developer/6772163434)
- Category: Games, Travel, Adventure, Puzzle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 364 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-05
- Data updated: 2026-07-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/holmes-abroad/id6773679067/reviews.md

## What is 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.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Von Ehrenstein Affair | $3.99 | one-time |
| The Provisionist | $3.99 | one-time |
| The Cutter's Weight | $3.99 | one-time |
| The Brewer's Crypt | $3.99 | one-time |
| The Quai d'Orsay Translation | $3.99 | one-time |
| Bleeding Heart Yard | $3.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 2 releases)

### v1.1.0 — 2026-06-09

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.

### 1.0 — 2026-06-05

No release notes.

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