Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened will be remade with a new story, among other changes

Frogwares has announced its next project, pushed by the conditions of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The raging war in Ukraine is forcing the country’s development teams to adapt to the situation as best they can. This is the case with Frogwares, announcing the remake of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, the third installment of the series starring the detective, a highly prolific studio in the industry during these years and in which HP Lovecraft’s work is also very present.

It’s not a refactoring or anything like that, a video game made from scratch and rewritten for the case In order to serve as the sequel to Sherlock Holmes: Part One, Sherlock Holmes: Awakened – The Remake aims to tell the story of a young detective, accompanied by his faithful squire, John Watson, and the horrors they must face. his first case.

Those familiar with the original version don’t need much introduction, but in broad strokes the adventure tells us how the researchers fell into a conspiracy web. A strange cult of the legend of Cthulhu While trying to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Holmes and Watson embark on an adventure that will take them from Victorian London to a Swiss psychiatric ward, the swamps of New Orleans and the Highlands of Scotland as they try to stop this group of madmen. They try to distinguish what is fact and what is fiction.

Frogwares emphasizes that we are facing a new video game in its statement, and this means: create additional side quests, adding additional investigation mechanics to expand your detective toolset, as well as reworking scenarios from the ground up, adapting the adventure to a new third-person camera, and overhauling the game’s interface to update it. As a graphics engine, they clarify, they chose unreal engine 4.

The Ukrainian company owns a large chunk of the advanced development and is actually going to release a trailer with more information about the project soon, but they are urging their fans to support the video game soon to finish it off and avoid fears. Kickstarter will surely announce any prizes they will make. Details of the campaign will be presented later.

Finally, for those who follow Frogwares, The Awakened – Remake is Palianytsia released in May. The Ukrainian team said in a statement that while they plan to do so, this is not their first plan.