Sherlock Holmes The Awakened Remake Announced
Frogwares describes the games as "a full remake and substantial rewrite of our 2006 Lovecraft-inspired Cthulhu Sherlock crossover."
Frogwares announced the remake of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened – a 2006 adventure game that combines a detective story with the myth of Cthulhu. The developers say the new game will be a "full from-the-ground-up remake and substantial rewrite of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened."
"The Awakened remake sees a young Sherlock take on his first major case alongside his newly acquainted sidekick, John Watson. What seems like a straightforward case of a missing person quickly spirals into a web of conspiracies by a nefarious cult that worships the eldritch god Cthulhu and is attempting to bring about an ancient prophecy."
The company decided to organize a Kickstarter campaign, which will secure the studio's needs and safeguard the funding of the game. The backers will receive a copy of the game at a cheaper price than usual, Kickstarter-exclusive in-game content, and the ability to appear in the game, although it's not clear how exactly.
"No assets or code are being repurposed from the original game. We are essentially rebuilding the entire game from scratch to run Unreal Engine 4, using all new assets or ones we can cleverly rework from Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One which came out only a few months ago," shared Jaroslav Martyniuk, Feature Designers Team Lead.
A list of the major changes to Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened include:
- All new graphics and assets made in Unreal Engine 4.
- New and redone animations.
- Full cutscene overhauls.
- Additional investigation gameplay mechanics.
- Rewriting the story to connect with the case from The Awakened to a younger Sherlock.
- Amplifying the story behind how Watson and Holmes came to be so close.
- Minor story rewrites to the cases.
- Additional side quests.
- New English voice-over recordings and translations into multiple languages.
- User interface overhaul.
- Change to contemporary third-person perspective camera.
- Additional quality of life features.
The date for the Kickstarter campaign is not set yet, but Frogwares promise to release an update soon. Learn more about the game here and consider supporting it on Kickstarter.
