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Nancy Drew®: The Haunted Carousel cover art

Nancy Drew®: The Haunted Carousel

HeR Interactive · 2009-10-10

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 22, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take a Spin with Danger to Unravel the Mystery of a Ghostly Merry-go-Round!

2
playing now
93%
positive of 255 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
66/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 51% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 10k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 255 total reviews — how this is computed.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
8820122026Week of 2012-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 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

1402026-08-12 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 10 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 5 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$6.99$2.092015-01-012021-02-152015-01-01 — best price $2.092015-06-12 — best price $3.492015-10-29 — best price $5.242015-11-25 — best price $3.492015-12-22 — best price $2.092016-02-05 — best price $5.592016-06-24 — best price $4.192016-08-05 — best price $6.292016-10-28 — best price $2.792016-11-23 — best price $4.542016-12-22 — best price $2.792017-06-22 — best price $4.192017-10-26 — best price $2.442017-11-22 — best price $4.192017-12-22 — best price $2.092018-04-20 — best price $6.992018-07-05 — best price $6.992018-08-02 — best price $6.992018-11-01 — best price $6.992018-11-27 — best price $6.992019-01-04 — best price $6.992019-02-12 — best price $6.992019-07-09 — best price $6.992019-12-03 — best price $6.992020-01-02 — best price $6.992020-01-27 — best price $6.992020-06-25 — best price $4.192020-07-15 — best price $6.992020-12-01 — best price $6.992021-01-05 — best price $6.992021-02-15 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2.5DDramaFunnyRetroPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory Rich

Census log

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

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