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Nancy Drew®: Legend of the Crystal Skull cover art

Nancy Drew®: Legend of the Crystal Skull

HeR Interactive · 2009-07-17

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 08, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

The Search is on for an Unearthly Artifact in New Orleans!

1
playing now
91%
positive of 220 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull is the 17th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. It 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 The Mardi Gras Mystery (1988).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 1 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 54% of 11,314 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.8k–18k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 220 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 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620112026Week of 2013-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1602026-08-12 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 16 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 5 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 4 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 11 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 6 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 9 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 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 $6.992018-10-30 — best price $2.442018-11-27 — best price $6.992019-02-04 — best price $4.192019-07-09 — best price $6.992019-11-26 — best price $4.192020-01-02 — best price $6.992020-06-25 — best price $4.192020-12-01 — 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 $9.992024-12-19 — best price $4.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-09-30 — best price $6.492026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $6.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2642026-06-01 — 10 pageviews2026-06-04 — 6 pageviews2026-06-07 — 14 pageviews2026-06-10 — 8 pageviews2026-06-13 — 13 pageviews2026-06-16 — 11 pageviews2026-06-19 — 11 pageviews2026-06-22 — 6 pageviews2026-06-25 — 4 pageviews2026-06-28 — 9 pageviews2026-07-01 — 14 pageviews2026-07-04 — 10 pageviews2026-07-07 — 12 pageviews2026-07-10 — 10 pageviews2026-07-13 — 24 pageviews2026-07-16 — 21 pageviews2026-07-19 — 16 pageviews2026-07-22 — 14 pageviews2026-07-25 — 9 pageviews2026-07-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-31 — 19 pageviews2026-08-03 — 11 pageviews2026-08-06 — 15 pageviews2026-08-09 — 13 pageviews2026-08-12 — 8 pageviews2026-08-15 — 14 pageviews2026-08-18 — 14 pageviews2026-08-21 — 5 pageviews2026-08-24 — 9 pageviews2026-08-27 — 10 pageviews2026-08-29 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

FunnyRetroCasualPuzzleClassicMysteryAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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