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Nancy Drew®: Tomb of the Lost Queen

HeR Interactive · 2012-05-16

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: May 16, 2012 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 10, 2012 (Mac)

Unearth Sinister Secrets in an Ancient Egyptian Tomb!

Nancy Drew®: Tomb of the Lost Queen is a $19.99 Adventure game released in 2012, with Very Positive (88% of 141 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

0
playing now
88%
positive of 141 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
67/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 08:00 UTC (census sample)

Tomb of the Lost Queen is the 26th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E 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 book Secrets of the Nile (1995).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 13 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 34% of 28,796 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.6k–11k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 141 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
6620132026Week of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

702026-09-15 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 1 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 1 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 1 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 3 players2026-09-28 13:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 04:00 — 2 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 5 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 3 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 3 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 6 players2026-10-14 08:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
50Jul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 4 · peak 18Dec 2012 — avg 2 · peak 16May 2013 — avg 1 · peak 4Oct 2013 — avg 1 · peak 3Mar 2014 — avg 0 · peak 4Aug 2014 — avg 0 · peak 3Jan 2015 — avg 3 · peak 17Jun 2015 — avg 2 · peak 9Nov 2015 — avg 1 · peak 8Apr 2016 — avg 1 · peak 4Sep 2016 — avg 1 · peak 5Feb 2017 — avg 1 · peak 9Jul 2017 — avg 1 · peak 8Dec 2017 — avg 2 · peak 17May 2018 — avg 1 · peak 8Oct 2018 — avg 1 · peak 6Mar 2019 — avg 1 · peak 6Aug 2019 — avg 2 · peak 7Jan 2020 — avg 4 · peak 23Jun 2020 — avg 3 · peak 14Nov 2020 — avg 3 · peak 19Apr 2021 — avg 3 · peak 10Sep 2021 — avg 2 · peak 9Feb 2022 — avg 3 · peak 12Jul 2022 — avg 4 · peak 12Dec 2022 — avg 4 · peak 16May 2023 — avg 4 · peak 16Oct 2023 — avg 2 · peak 9Mar 2024 — avg 3 · peak 17Aug 2024 — avg 3 · peak 13Jan 2025 — avg 5 · peak 16Jun 2025 — avg 4 · peak 15Dec 2025 — avg 4 · peak 11May 2026 — avg 4 · peak 11Aug 2026 — avg 4 · peak 13
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$19.99$4.982015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-06-22 — best price $19.992015-12-01 — best price $19.992015-12-22 — best price $5.992016-02-05 — best price $9.992016-03-02 — best price $19.952016-04-28 — best price $4.982016-06-01 — best price $19.952016-06-27 — best price $19.952016-10-18 — best price $15.992016-11-23 — best price $12.992017-01-02 — best price $19.992017-10-26 — best price $6.992017-11-28 — best price $19.992018-04-20 — best price $19.992018-07-17 — best price $15.992018-11-01 — best price $19.992018-12-20 — best price $5.992019-02-12 — best price $19.992019-12-19 — best price $5.992020-01-27 — best price $19.992020-07-09 — best price $19.992020-12-01 — best price $19.992021-02-11 — best price $10.992021-11-01 — best price $19.992021-12-22 — best price $9.992022-02-03 — best price $19.992022-11-22 — best price $11.992023-01-05 — best price $19.992023-06-29 — best price $9.992023-11-28 — best price $19.992024-03-14 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $19.992024-12-19 — best price $9.992025-03-20 — best price $19.992025-09-29 — best price $12.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $13.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

2422026-06-03 — 4 pageviews2026-06-07 — 8 pageviews2026-06-11 — 5 pageviews2026-06-15 — 2 pageviews2026-06-19 — 7 pageviews2026-06-23 — 8 pageviews2026-06-27 — 15 pageviews2026-07-01 — 9 pageviews2026-07-05 — 11 pageviews2026-07-09 — 9 pageviews2026-07-13 — 5 pageviews2026-07-17 — 7 pageviews2026-07-21 — 14 pageviews2026-07-25 — 4 pageviews2026-07-29 — 19 pageviews2026-08-02 — 4 pageviews2026-08-06 — 11 pageviews2026-08-10 — 6 pageviews2026-08-14 — 8 pageviews2026-08-18 — 7 pageviews2026-08-22 — 8 pageviews2026-08-26 — 11 pageviews2026-08-30 — 12 pageviews2026-09-03 — 13 pageviews2026-09-07 — 8 pageviews2026-09-11 — 7 pageviews2026-09-15 — 8 pageviews2026-09-19 — 24 pageviews2026-09-23 — 10 pageviews2026-09-27 — 7 pageviews2026-10-01 — 6 pageviews2026-10-05 — 8 pageviews2026-10-09 — 8 pageviews2026-10-13 — 6 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

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

Player tags

2.5DDramaFunnyCasualPuzzleAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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