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Nancy Drew®: Message in a Haunted Mansion cover art

Nancy Drew®: Message in a Haunted Mansion

HeR Interactive · 2017-05-01

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Nov 24, 2000 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Discover who — or what — is behind the mysterious accidents in a house full of secrets!

86%
positive of 284 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Message in a Haunted Mansion is the third installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms as well as Game Boy Advance. 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 mode offers a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, but none of these changes affect the plot of the game. The game is loosely based on the book The Message in the Haunted Mansion (1995).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity down 15% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.1k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 284 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek 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 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek 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 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$2.992015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $6.992017-05-02 — best price $9.992017-11-22 — best price $5.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-21 — best price $5.992019-01-04 — best price $9.992019-03-21 — best price $9.992019-06-26 — best price $5.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-23 — best price $5.992020-06-25 — best price $5.992020-10-29 — best price $6.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-11 — best price $5.492021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-22 — best price $4.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-11-22 — best price $5.992023-02-20 — best price $4.992023-05-01 — best price $9.992023-11-21 — best price $4.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-06-27 — best price $4.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $7.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-27 — 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).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerCaptions availableFamily Sharing

Player tags

2.5DFunnyRetroCasualPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory Rich

Census log

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