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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))

An Elusive Killer Shocks a High-Tech Lab!

92%
positive of 97 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

Fear lingers in a remote laboratory after a physicist's suspicious demise. A police investigation resulted in nothing except a case as cold as the secretive personalities and steel walls that enshroud a top-secret Tesla-inspired facility. That's why the lab owner asked you, as Detective Nancy Drew, to expose the terrifying truth about The Deadly Device!(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 67% of 11,362 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 5 of 10 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).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

Player tags

2.5DDramaFunnyCasualPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse 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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