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Nancy Drew®: Trail of the Twister cover art

Nancy Drew®: Trail of the Twister

HeR Interactive · 2011-07-25

Steam

Adventure

Franchise: Nancy Drew · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jun 29, 2010 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 29, 2010 (Linux)

Apprehend a Saboteur Stirring up Turbulent Trouble!

3
playing now
70%
positive of 166 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

3 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 13:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 3 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 58% of 11,314 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.6k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 166 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.74 at GreenManGaming (2013-11-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620112026Week of 2014-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

802026-08-12 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-12 16:00 — 3 players2026-08-13 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-13 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-15 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-16 15:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 23:00 — 7 players2026-08-18 14:00 — 2 players2026-08-19 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 22:00 — 5 players2026-08-20 14:00 — 4 players2026-08-21 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 21:00 — 4 players2026-08-22 13:00 — 0 players2026-08-23 05:00 — 3 players2026-08-23 20:00 — 8 players2026-08-24 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-25 20:00 — 3 players2026-08-26 12:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 12:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 7 players2026-08-30 13:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.742015-01-012026-07-092015-01-01 — best price $2.092015-06-22 — best price $6.992015-12-01 — best price $6.992015-12-22 — best price $2.092016-02-05 — best price $5.592016-03-02 — best price $6.992016-04-28 — best price $1.742016-06-01 — best price $6.992016-06-27 — best price $6.992016-10-18 — best price $5.792016-12-22 — best price $2.792017-07-05 — best price $6.992017-12-21 — best price $2.092018-06-22 — best price $4.192018-08-02 — best price $6.992018-12-20 — best price $2.092019-02-12 — best price $6.992019-11-26 — best price $4.192020-01-02 — best price $6.992020-03-25 — best price $6.292020-07-15 — best price $6.992020-12-22 — best price $3.492021-02-15 — best price $6.992021-11-24 — best price $3.492022-01-05 — best price $6.992022-06-23 — best price $4.892022-11-29 — best price $6.992023-02-20 — best price $3.492023-05-01 — best price $6.992023-11-21 — best price $3.492024-01-04 — best price $6.992024-06-27 — best price $3.492024-11-27 — best price $7.492025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-06-26 — best price $9.742025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-01-12 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

2.5DDramaFunnyPuzzleClassicAdventureDetectiveMouse onlyStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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