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Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch cover art

Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch

HeR Interactive · 2017-01-09

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Aug 30, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Take a Wild Ride into Terror and Trickery to Rein in a Ghostly Secret!

5
playing now
89%
positive of 226 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

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

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 5 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 26 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 13% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 53% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.7k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 226 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.09 at GameStop PC (2013-12-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720172026Week of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2612026-08-12 01:00 — 17 players2026-08-12 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 14 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 5 players2026-08-15 09:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 00:00 — 26 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 9 players2026-08-17 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 17 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 23:00 — 8 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 14:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 06:00 — 5 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 22 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 5 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 22:00 — 11 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 2 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 8 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 9 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 6 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 5 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$2.992017-01-102026-07-092017-01-10 — best price $9.992017-07-05 — best price $9.992017-11-28 — best price $9.992018-01-04 — best price $9.992018-07-05 — best price $9.992018-11-27 — best price $9.992019-01-03 — best price $9.992019-02-11 — best price $9.992019-07-10 — best price $9.992019-12-03 — best price $9.992020-01-02 — best price $9.992020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992021-12-01 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992022-11-29 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-05-01 — best price $9.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-03-21 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-01-19 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-07-09 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Player tags

2.5DDramaFunnyRetroPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory Rich

Census log

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

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