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Nancy Drew® Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!

HeR Interactive · 2009-07-17

Steam

AdventureCasual

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 05, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Seek the source of sabotage on a Hollywood set!

Nancy Drew® Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses! is an Adventure and Casual game released in 2009, priced at $19.99, with an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (70% of 83 reviews).

1
playing now
70%
positive of 83 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$19.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Nancy Drew Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses! is the first installment in the Nancy Drew hidden object 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 tobacco references. 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.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 44% of 28,832 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.3k–6.6k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 83 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.74 at GreenManGaming (2013-11-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2220142026Week of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

302026-09-15 09:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 01:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 16:00 — 1 players2026-09-22 00:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 07:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 15:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 22:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 06:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 1 players2026-09-29 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-03 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 04:00 — 3 players2026-10-06 11:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 02:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 17:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
20Jul 2012Sep 2024Jul 2012 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2012 — avg 0 · peak 2Mar 2013 — avg 0 · peak 2Jul 2013 — avg 0 · peak 5Nov 2013 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2014 — avg 0 · peak 2Nov 2014 — avg 0 · peak 4Mar 2015 — avg 1 · peak 3Jul 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Nov 2015 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2016 — avg 0 · peak 4Jul 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2016 — avg 0 · peak 3Mar 2017 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Nov 2017 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2018 — avg 0 · peak 3Jul 2018 — avg 1 · peak 3Nov 2018 — avg 0 · peak 5Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Jul 2019 — avg 1 · peak 5Nov 2019 — avg 1 · peak 4Mar 2020 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2020 — avg 1 · peak 7Nov 2020 — avg 1 · peak 4Apr 2021 — avg 1 · peak 4Jan 2022 — avg 2 · peak 5Jul 2022 — avg 1 · peak 5Apr 2023 — avg 1 · peak 6Jan 2024 — avg 2 · peak 9Sep 2024 — avg 1 · peak 4
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$2.092015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.092015-06-22 — best price $6.992015-11-25 — best price $3.492016-01-04 — best price $6.992016-06-23 — best price $4.192016-10-18 — best price $5.792016-12-22 — best price $2.792017-07-05 — best price $6.992017-12-21 — best price $2.092018-06-21 — best price $4.192018-08-02 — best price $6.992018-11-21 — best price $4.192019-01-03 — best price $6.992019-06-26 — best price $4.192019-11-01 — best price $6.992019-12-19 — best price $2.092020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-07-09 — best price $6.992020-12-01 — best price $6.992021-02-11 — best price $3.842021-11-01 — best price $6.992021-12-22 — best price $3.492022-02-03 — best price $6.992022-11-22 — best price $4.192023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-04-24 — best price $3.842023-07-13 — best price $6.992023-12-21 — best price $3.492024-03-21 — best price $6.992024-10-24 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-09-29 — best price $12.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $13.992026-04-13 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1102026-06-04 — 2 pageviews2026-06-08 — 11 pageviews2026-06-12 — 5 pageviews2026-06-16 — 7 pageviews2026-06-20 — 4 pageviews2026-06-24 — 0 pageviews2026-06-28 — 3 pageviews2026-07-02 — 7 pageviews2026-07-06 — 6 pageviews2026-07-10 — 4 pageviews2026-07-14 — 2 pageviews2026-07-18 — 7 pageviews2026-07-22 — 3 pageviews2026-07-26 — 7 pageviews2026-07-30 — 5 pageviews2026-08-03 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 5 pageviews2026-08-11 — 7 pageviews2026-08-15 — 6 pageviews2026-08-19 — 6 pageviews2026-08-23 — 7 pageviews2026-08-27 — 3 pageviews2026-08-31 — 7 pageviews2026-09-04 — 8 pageviews2026-09-08 — 2 pageviews2026-09-12 — 5 pageviews2026-09-16 — 5 pageviews2026-09-20 — 7 pageviews2026-09-24 — 3 pageviews2026-09-28 — 6 pageviews2026-10-02 — 2 pageviews2026-10-06 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetectiveStory RichAtmosphericExplorationHidden ObjectPoint & Click

Census log

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

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