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Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge

HeR Interactive · 2011-09-15

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 19, 2010 (Mac), Oct 19, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is a 2011 Adventure game priced at $19.99, with an estimated 50,000 .. 100,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (82% of 427 reviews).

5
playing now
82%
positive of 427 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
61/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

5 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 18:00 UTC (census sample)

Shadow at the Water's Edge is the 23rd installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E10+ for moments of mild violence and disturbing imagery. 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 two books, Tour of Danger (1992) and The Thirteenth Pearl (1979).

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 27 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 17% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 21% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 17k–34k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 427 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
9920172026Week of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2712026-09-15 03:00 — 17 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 19:00 — 7 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 11 players2026-09-20 10:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 18:00 — 7 players2026-09-23 01:00 — 12 players2026-09-24 09:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 16:00 — 7 players2026-09-27 00:00 — 15 players2026-09-28 07:00 — 7 players2026-09-29 15:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 22:00 — 6 players2026-10-02 06:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 13:00 — 5 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 26 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 6 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 2 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 13 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 13 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 10 players2026-10-12 19:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 9 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
201Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 5 · peak 18Dec 2012 — avg 2 · peak 15May 2013 — avg 2 · peak 10Oct 2013 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2014 — avg 2 · peak 7Aug 2014 — avg 2 · peak 8Jan 2015 — avg 5 · peak 23Jun 2015 — avg 4 · peak 18Nov 2015 — avg 3 · peak 16Apr 2016 — avg 3 · peak 12Sep 2016 — avg 3 · peak 11Feb 2017 — avg 5 · peak 17Jul 2017 — avg 9 · peak 22Dec 2017 — avg 5 · peak 22May 2018 — avg 5 · peak 17Oct 2018 — avg 4 · peak 14Mar 2019 — avg 6 · peak 23Aug 2019 — avg 8 · peak 22Jan 2020 — avg 15 · peak 45Jun 2020 — avg 12 · peak 37Nov 2020 — avg 15 · peak 41Apr 2021 — avg 9 · peak 26Sep 2021 — avg 8 · peak 27Feb 2022 — avg 11 · peak 33Jul 2022 — avg 10 · peak 25Dec 2022 — avg 9 · peak 30May 2023 — avg 11 · peak 34Oct 2023 — avg 9 · peak 29Mar 2024 — avg 12 · peak 41Aug 2024 — avg 11 · peak 34Jan 2025 — avg 10 · peak 42Jun 2025 — avg 7 · peak 28Nov 2025 — avg 7 · peak 27Apr 2026 — avg 7 · peak 23Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 22
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$1.742015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.092015-06-22 — best price $6.992015-12-01 — best price $6.992015-12-22 — best price $2.092016-02-05 — best price $5.592016-03-02 — best price $6.992016-04-28 — best price $1.742016-06-01 — best price $6.992016-06-27 — best price $6.992016-10-18 — best price $5.792016-12-22 — best price $2.792017-07-05 — best price $6.992018-07-05 — best price $6.992018-11-21 — best price $4.192019-01-04 — best price $6.992019-06-26 — best price $4.192019-12-03 — best price $6.992020-01-23 — best price $4.192020-06-25 — best price $4.192020-10-29 — best price $4.892020-12-01 — 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 $12.992025-11-03 — best price $19.992026-01-12 — best price $11.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2952026-06-01 — 14 pageviews2026-06-05 — 12 pageviews2026-06-09 — 14 pageviews2026-06-13 — 11 pageviews2026-06-17 — 12 pageviews2026-06-21 — 8 pageviews2026-06-25 — 17 pageviews2026-06-29 — 19 pageviews2026-07-03 — 25 pageviews2026-07-07 — 17 pageviews2026-07-11 — 12 pageviews2026-07-15 — 14 pageviews2026-07-19 — 16 pageviews2026-07-23 — 12 pageviews2026-07-27 — 13 pageviews2026-07-31 — 24 pageviews2026-08-04 — 17 pageviews2026-08-08 — 11 pageviews2026-08-12 — 14 pageviews2026-08-16 — 21 pageviews2026-08-20 — 8 pageviews2026-08-24 — 13 pageviews2026-08-28 — 22 pageviews2026-09-01 — 20 pageviews2026-09-05 — 7 pageviews2026-09-09 — 13 pageviews2026-09-13 — 15 pageviews2026-09-17 — 15 pageviews2026-09-21 — 8 pageviews2026-09-25 — 20 pageviews2026-09-29 — 16 pageviews2026-10-03 — 17 pageviews2026-10-07 — 8 pageviews2026-10-11 — 17 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

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Census log

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

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