Sherlock Holmes: Sex & Secrets is a story-driven adult visual novel set in Victorian London. Uncover a deadly conspiracy through deduction, romance, hidden societies, dangerous secrets, animated NSFW scenes, branching choices, and an unlockable gallery.

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Planned Release Date: Jan 14, 2027

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Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

This game contains explicit consensual sexual content between adult characters, including full nudity and animated sex scenes. It also includes mature sexual dialogue, murder scenes, firearms, and violence related to the mystery storyline. All sexual content involves adults only.

About This Game

Sherlock Holmes: Sex & Secrets is a story-driven adult visual novel that reimagines the world of the legendary detective as a dark Victorian mystery filled with conspiracy, romance, psychological tension, and explicit adult content.



London, 1894
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A mysterious black glass chess piece arrives at 221B Baker Street alongside a photograph predicting the death of a wealthy banker. By the time Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson reach the scene, the victim is already dead, the room appears impossible to enter or escape from, and a message has been left specifically for Holmes.

What begins as a single locked-room murder soon reveals something far larger.

A trail of black glass chess pieces, coded brass mechanisms, hidden passageways, murdered custodians, and carefully constructed crime scenes leads Holmes toward the Nocturne Society, an exclusive secret organization buried beneath London's aristocratic world. Its members include politicians, financiers, nobles, and other powerful figures whose private lives are protected by an enormous archive of secrets.

Someone is systematically killing the people connected to that archive.

And every crime has been designed for Sherlock Holmes to solve.

The investigation becomes even more complicated when Evelyn Blackwood returns to London.

Elegant, intelligent, dangerous, and impossible for Holmes to treat as simply another source of information, Evelyn shares a complicated history with him that began years earlier in Paris. She also knows far more about Nocturne than she initially admits.

Their reunion forces Holmes to confront something far more difficult than a murder investigation: trust.

As the case develops, Holmes and Evelyn infiltrate private clubs, masquerade balls, hidden chambers, underground railway passages, aristocratic estates, and the forgotten tunnels beneath London. Every new discovery brings them closer to the truth while exposing more of the unresolved tension between them.

Sherlock Holmes: Sex & Secrets combines narrative-driven investigation with character-focused adult romance.

Throughout the story, you will examine crime scenes, uncover clues, question suspicious circumstances, and make deductions using evidence already discovered during the investigation. Major deduction sequences allow you to reconstruct murders and expose contradictions without turning the game into a traditional puzzle adventure.

Choices throughout the story influence Holmes's tone, investigative approach, and relationship with Evelyn while preserving a focused cinematic narrative and a single canonical conclusion.

The relationship between Holmes and Evelyn develops across the entire investigation. Their attraction is closely tied to their history, distrust, rivalry, and growing dependence on one another rather than existing separately from the mystery.

The game features multiple fully animated NSFW scenes between Sherlock Holmes and Evelyn Blackwood, appearing throughout the story as their relationship develops. These sequences are integrated into the narrative and reflect different stages of their emotional relationship, from unresolved attraction and dangerous pretense to trust, vulnerability, and genuine intimacy.

An unlockable gallery system allows you to revisit adult scenes and other unlocked content after discovering them during the story.

Features include:

Story-driven adult visual novel set in Victorian London.

A complete mystery centered around the Nocturne Society and its hidden archive of secrets.

Sherlock Holmes and Evelyn Blackwood as the central romantic pairing.

Locked-room murders, staged evidence, secret societies, coded mechanisms, underground passages, and conspiracy.

Interactive deduction sequences based on clues discovered during the investigation.

Meaningful dialogue and investigation choices that shape Holmes's personality and relationship dynamics.

Multiple fully animated NSFW scenes.

An unlockable gallery system for previously discovered adult content.

A large cast including Dr. John Watson, Irene Adler, Inspector Lestrade, Dr. Alaric Harrow, and other figures connected to the conspiracy.

Detailed cinematic CG artwork inspired by Victorian mystery, gothic romance, and psychological thriller aesthetics.

A single complete canonical storyline with a defined conclusion rather than multiple disconnected romance routes.

Every secret leaves evidence.

The question is not whether Sherlock Holmes can uncover the truth.

It is what he will do once he has it.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

This game uses AI-assisted tools during development to help create certain pre-generated visual assets, including some backgrounds and selected in-game artwork, as well as parts of the store and marketing materials. Final assets were curated, edited, and integrated by the developer. The game does not use live-generated AI during gameplay, and no content is created or changed in real time while playing.

System Requirements

Windows
macOS
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7 or higher
    • Processor: 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo
    • Memory: 4 MB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 or DirectX 9.0c compatible
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Mac OSX 10.15 or better
    • Processor: Apple M1 or Intel Core 2 Duo
    • Memory: 4 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Compatible OpenGLR
* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04+ or Kernel 3.x+ based distributions
    • Processor: 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo
    • Graphics: OpenGL 2.0 compatible
    • Storage: 12 MB available space
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