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I mean like RPG style.

Not sure I understand the question but I’ll try..

From the Sherlock games I’ve played, you do of course talk to people but the conversations are extremely linear like almost every other adventure game out there. It’s not like RPGs such as Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Skyrim etc where you are given choices to suit your character or playing style. 

So the answer is no I guess. If you’ve played any other detective game (or adventure game in general) you know what to expect in Sherlock Holmes.

You need to specify which Sherlock Holmes games you mean. There have been several made, some very recently, some going back 30 years, and by different companies. Some are pixelart, some are are FMV, some are first person, some are third person, and so on.

Obviously some of these games have absolutely no dialogue options, but some do.

Generally speaking though, they don’t have very many dialogue puzzles, if that was the point of your question.

So in other words the Frogwares games.  I’ve only played one of them (“The Awakened”) but I don’t remember there being many dialogue options.  The gameplay mostly consisted of finding all of the clues in a given area to progress in the story.  There is definitely dialogue but I don’t remember being given different choices of what to say. 

The exception is at the end of each chapter there is usually a riddle or puzzle you must solve with a fill in the blank answer (NOT multiple choice).  These are pretty difficult as you have to piece together all of the clues you’ve found to figure out what the correct answer is.