Can I Run Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
Released in 2023, Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is an adventure game built by Frogwares. It offers a single player campaign. Steam lists support for 15 languages. Completionists have 28 achievements to work through. Over 2 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-6700 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, 6 GB or AMD Radeon RX 590, 8 GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an investigation. Play is structured around one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 12 storefront screenshots of these environments. That openness is what costs performance. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. Play is presented in three dimensions.
Why Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is demanding
The ask Sherlock Holmes The Awakened makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened needs only 12 GB of RAM. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Sherlock Holmes The Awakened scales hard with the hardware you give it. Sherlock Holmes The Awakened takes about 30 GB of disk space, SSD specified.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
Older hardware holds up here: Sherlock Holmes The Awakened runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Sherlock Holmes The Awakened's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Can my PC run Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770, 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380, 4 GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64bit.
How much storage does Sherlock Holmes The Awakened need?
Sherlock Holmes The Awakened needs about 30 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
The RTX 3060 runs Sherlock Holmes The Awakened comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Sherlock Holmes The Awakened is the GPU.