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Nancy Drew®: The Captive Curse cover art

Nancy Drew®: The Captive Curse

HeR Interactive · 2011-07-25

Steam

AdventureCasual

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 15, 2012 (Mac), Jun 28, 2011 (Linux), Jun 28, 2011 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A terrifying myth comes alive in Germany!

0
playing now
89%
positive of 233 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

The Captive Curse is the 24th 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 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 Captive Witness (1981).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 12 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 9.3k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 233 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 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720142026Week of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek 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: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-08-12 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 1 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 7 players2026-08-20 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 2 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 6 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$19.99$1.742015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.092015-07-10 — best price $6.992015-12-01 — best price $6.992016-01-04 — best price $1.742016-02-23 — best price $1.742016-04-28 — best price $1.742016-06-17 — best price $1.742016-08-05 — best price $6.292016-11-23 — best price $4.542017-06-22 — best price $4.192017-12-21 — best price $2.092018-07-05 — best price $6.992018-11-01 — best price $6.992019-01-04 — best price $6.992019-07-09 — best price $6.992019-12-03 — best price $6.992020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-07-15 — best price $6.992021-01-05 — best price $6.992021-11-01 — best price $6.992022-01-05 — best price $6.992022-07-07 — best price $6.992023-01-05 — best price $6.992023-05-01 — best price $6.992023-11-28 — best price $6.992024-03-21 — best price $6.992024-11-27 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $15.992025-09-29 — best price $12.992025-12-18 — best price $12.992026-03-19 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2942026-06-01 — 11 pageviews2026-06-04 — 7 pageviews2026-06-07 — 13 pageviews2026-06-10 — 7 pageviews2026-06-13 — 8 pageviews2026-06-16 — 20 pageviews2026-06-19 — 11 pageviews2026-06-22 — 7 pageviews2026-06-25 — 15 pageviews2026-06-28 — 10 pageviews2026-07-01 — 13 pageviews2026-07-04 — 10 pageviews2026-07-07 — 11 pageviews2026-07-10 — 15 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-16 — 7 pageviews2026-07-19 — 14 pageviews2026-07-22 — 16 pageviews2026-07-25 — 15 pageviews2026-07-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-31 — 29 pageviews2026-08-03 — 16 pageviews2026-08-06 — 14 pageviews2026-08-09 — 11 pageviews2026-08-12 — 9 pageviews2026-08-15 — 16 pageviews2026-08-18 — 20 pageviews2026-08-21 — 9 pageviews2026-08-24 — 16 pageviews2026-08-27 — 10 pageviews2026-08-29 — 13 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

DramaFunny1990'sPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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