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Nancy Drew®: The Creature of Kapu Cave cover art

Nancy Drew®: The Creature of Kapu Cave

HeR Interactive · 2009-07-17

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 01, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Team up with the Hardy Boys® and Track an Ancient Legend Through Hawaii!

4
playing now
74%
positive of 191 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (12 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Say Aloha to Trouble in Paradise! Working as a research assistant in Hawaii sounds like fun in the sun, but ther's big trouble brewing on the Big Island. Someone or something destroyed the environmental experiments in the forest around the Hilihili Research compound. Is it the mythical Kane ‘Okala or unfriendly rivals? It's up to you, as Nancy Drew, with the help of the Hardy Boys, to uncover hidden secrets among the strange whispers that haunt the mountains and forests! Dare to Play!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 17 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity down 6% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 56% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.6k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 191 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
6620132026Week of 2013-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

712026-08-12 00:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 4 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 5 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 2 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 4 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 $6.992018-11-21 — best price $4.192019-01-03 — best price $6.992019-06-26 — best price $4.192019-12-03 — best price $6.992020-01-23 — best price $4.192020-07-09 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $3.492021-02-15 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $3.492022-01-05 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $4.892022-11-29 — 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 $9.992025-09-29 — 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-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2D2.5DFunnyCasualPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse 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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