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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!

Nancy Drew®: Trail of the Twister is an Adventure game released in 2011 priced at $14.99, with an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000 and a Mixed review sentiment (70% of 166 reviews).

0
playing now
70%
positive of 166 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Trail of the Twister is the 22nd installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. It is available for play on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and comic mischief. 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 its plot. It is loosely based on the book The Mystery in Tornado Alley (2000).

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 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 32% of 28,739 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 4 of 8 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

802026-09-15 08:00 — 1 players2026-09-16 16:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 00:00 — 7 players2026-09-19 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 15:00 — 6 players2026-09-21 23:00 — 6 players2026-09-23 06:00 — 1 players2026-09-24 14:00 — 2 players2026-09-25 21:00 — 3 players2026-09-27 05:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 12:00 — 2 players2026-09-29 20:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 03:00 — 3 players2026-10-02 11:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 19:00 — 7 players2026-10-05 03:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 10:00 — 2 players2026-10-07 18:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 01:00 — 6 players2026-10-10 09:00 — 1 players2026-10-11 16:00 — 3 players2026-10-13 00:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 07:00 — 0 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).

Attention

7922026-06-04 — 3 pageviews2026-06-08 — 7 pageviews2026-06-12 — 9 pageviews2026-06-16 — 9 pageviews2026-06-20 — 2 pageviews2026-06-24 — 13 pageviews2026-06-28 — 10 pageviews2026-07-02 — 10 pageviews2026-07-06 — 4 pageviews2026-07-10 — 16 pageviews2026-07-14 — 12 pageviews2026-07-18 — 8 pageviews2026-07-22 — 10 pageviews2026-07-26 — 79 pageviews2026-07-30 — 14 pageviews2026-08-03 — 16 pageviews2026-08-07 — 22 pageviews2026-08-11 — 11 pageviews2026-08-15 — 18 pageviews2026-08-19 — 7 pageviews2026-08-23 — 8 pageviews2026-08-27 — 11 pageviews2026-08-31 — 9 pageviews2026-09-04 — 9 pageviews2026-09-08 — 6 pageviews2026-09-12 — 5 pageviews2026-09-16 — 4 pageviews2026-09-20 — 8 pageviews2026-09-24 — 7 pageviews2026-09-28 — 4 pageviews2026-10-02 — 7 pageviews2026-10-06 — 4 pageviews2026-10-10 — 7 pageviews2026-10-13 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

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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