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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!

Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch is a 2017 Adventure game priced at $9.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 227 reviews).

8
playing now
89%
positive of 227 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (11 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 23:00 UTC (census sample)

The Secret of Shadow Ranch is the tenth installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. 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, Junior and Senior detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however neither of these changes affect the actual plot of the game. The game is based on the book The Secret at Shadow Ranch (1931).

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 8 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 28% of 28,838 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.7k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 227 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 4 of 8 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

2402026-09-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 23:00 — 8 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 3 players2026-09-20 14:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 22:00 — 9 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 04:00 — 9 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 19:00 — 13 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 5 players2026-10-02 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-03 18:00 — 10 players2026-10-05 02:00 — 24 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 4 players2026-10-07 17:00 — 7 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 10 players2026-10-10 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 23:00 — 10 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 2 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
101Jan 2017Aug 2026Jan 2017 — avg 1 · peak 7Apr 2017 — avg 1 · peak 6Jul 2017 — avg 2 · peak 8Oct 2017 — avg 1 · peak 5Jan 2018 — avg 3 · peak 11Apr 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8Jul 2018 — avg 2 · peak 10Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8Jan 2019 — avg 4 · peak 18Apr 2019 — avg 2 · peak 9Jul 2019 — avg 3 · peak 11Oct 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2020 — avg 5 · peak 27Apr 2020 — avg 6 · peak 17Jul 2020 — avg 6 · peak 21Oct 2020 — avg 3 · peak 15Jan 2021 — avg 8 · peak 30Apr 2021 — avg 5 · peak 20Jul 2021 — avg 5 · peak 15Oct 2021 — avg 4 · peak 15Jan 2022 — avg 7 · peak 27Apr 2022 — avg 5 · peak 19Jul 2022 — avg 6 · peak 23Oct 2022 — avg 4 · peak 17Jan 2023 — avg 7 · peak 27Apr 2023 — avg 6 · peak 21Jul 2023 — avg 6 · peak 23Oct 2023 — avg 4 · peak 19Jan 2024 — avg 7 · peak 28Apr 2024 — avg 6 · peak 24Jul 2024 — avg 8 · peak 35Oct 2024 — avg 5 · peak 16Jan 2025 — avg 8 · peak 32Apr 2025 — avg 7 · peak 20Jul 2025 — avg 8 · peak 22Oct 2025 — avg 6 · peak 18Jan 2026 — avg 10 · peak 33Apr 2026 — avg 7 · peak 23Jul 2026 — avg 10 · peak 33Aug 2026 — avg 8 · peak 25
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

Attention

2642026-06-04 — 11 pageviews2026-06-08 — 12 pageviews2026-06-12 — 14 pageviews2026-06-16 — 14 pageviews2026-06-20 — 20 pageviews2026-06-24 — 13 pageviews2026-06-28 — 14 pageviews2026-07-02 — 13 pageviews2026-07-06 — 9 pageviews2026-07-10 — 18 pageviews2026-07-14 — 17 pageviews2026-07-18 — 19 pageviews2026-07-22 — 11 pageviews2026-07-26 — 18 pageviews2026-07-30 — 10 pageviews2026-08-03 — 21 pageviews2026-08-07 — 23 pageviews2026-08-11 — 13 pageviews2026-08-15 — 18 pageviews2026-08-19 — 14 pageviews2026-08-23 — 19 pageviews2026-08-27 — 12 pageviews2026-08-31 — 12 pageviews2026-09-04 — 15 pageviews2026-09-08 — 15 pageviews2026-09-12 — 15 pageviews2026-09-16 — 19 pageviews2026-09-20 — 17 pageviews2026-09-24 — 10 pageviews2026-09-28 — 14 pageviews2026-10-02 — 12 pageviews2026-10-06 — 16 pageviews2026-10-10 — 9 pageviews2026-10-13 — 24 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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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Similarity via IGDB.

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