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Nancy Drew®: The Deadly Device

HeR Interactive, Inc. · HeR Interactive · 2012-10-23

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 23, 2012 (Mac), Oct 23, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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Nancy Drew®: The Deadly Device is an Adventure game released in 2012, priced at $19.99, with Very Positive (92% of 97 reviews) sentiment and an owner estimate of 0 .. 20,000.

92%
positive of 97 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device is the 27th 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. 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, Amateur and Master sleuth 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 books The Crime Lab Case (2000) and In and Out of Love (1997).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 41% of 28,692 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.9k–7.8k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 97 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.98 at WinGameStore (2015-11-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520142026Week of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek 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.

Price history

$19.99$4.982015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-07-10 — best price $19.952015-12-18 — best price $4.982016-02-05 — best price $9.992016-03-25 — best price $4.982016-05-27 — best price $4.982016-06-27 — best price $19.952016-10-28 — best price $5.992016-12-22 — best price $5.992017-10-26 — best price $6.992017-12-21 — best price $5.992018-07-05 — best price $19.992018-11-01 — best price $19.992019-01-03 — best price $19.992019-07-09 — best price $19.992019-12-03 — best price $19.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-07-14 — best price $19.992021-01-05 — best price $19.992021-11-01 — best price $19.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-07-07 — best price $19.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-05-01 — best price $19.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-03-21 — best price $19.992024-12-04 — best price $19.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-10-06 — best price $19.992026-01-19 — best price $19.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2018-10-04 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2.5DDramaFunnyCasualPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory Rich

Census log

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

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