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Nancy Drew®: Danger by Design

HeR Interactive · 2009-10-10

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jul 24, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Nancy Drew®: Danger by Design is a $9.99 Adventure game released in 2009, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment (83% of 185 reviews).

5
playing now
83%
positive of 185 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
63/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$9.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

Danger by Design is the 14th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues. There are two levels of gameplay, Junior and Senior detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however neither of these changes affect the plot of the game. The game is loosely based on the book Death by Design (1988).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 18 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 29% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 28,838 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.4k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 185 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at Steam (2014-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620142026Week of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1102026-09-15 08:00 — 2 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 4 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 6 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 2 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 5 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 3 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 2 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 8 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 1 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 2 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 6 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 11 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.092015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.092015-06-22 — best price $6.992015-12-22 — best price $2.092016-02-12 — best price $6.992016-11-23 — best price $4.542017-01-02 — best price $6.992017-11-22 — best price $4.192018-01-04 — best price $6.992018-11-21 — best price $4.192019-01-03 — best price $6.992019-06-26 — best price $4.192019-12-03 — best price $6.992020-01-23 — best price $4.192020-07-09 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $3.492021-02-15 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $3.492022-01-05 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $4.892022-11-29 — best price $6.992023-02-20 — best price $3.492023-05-01 — best price $6.992023-11-21 — best price $3.492024-01-04 — best price $6.992024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-11-27 — best price $4.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-06-26 — best price $6.492025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-01-12 — best price $5.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2.5DFunnyCasualPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

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Similarity via IGDB.

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