r/nancydrew • • 19h ago

#14 DANGER BY DESIGN ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท You can stay at JJ's house for 99 days

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620 Upvotes

JJ was baking those cookies every morning for over 3 months ๐Ÿ˜ณNo wonder there was a mint shortage lol


r/nancydrew • • 10h ago

DISCUSSION ๐Ÿ’ฌ You ever just jam out to some of the game music? Pop from SAW is a particular favorite

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r/nancydrew • • 27m ago

BOOKS ๐Ÿ“š Having new Nancy adventures even after finishing every game

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r/nancydrew • • 1d ago

RECREATIONS ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Sea of darkness in animal crossing new horizons

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My little vacationer is Soren of course skiing around making trouble. Downstairs is the inside of the shop. Upstairs is magnusโ€™s cabin with hidden treasure of course.


r/nancydrew • • 1d ago

BOOKS ๐Ÿ“š Next Nancy Drew Book

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55 Upvotes

I finally finished the atrocity that was Magnolia Mansion, and Iโ€™ve moved onto this one for Halloween. Hoping itโ€™s better than the last


r/nancydrew • • 19h ago

#20 RANSOM OF THE SEVEN SHIPS ๐Ÿ’ Invitation to RANt - SPOILERS Requested Spoiler

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Okay I have come out of a 10 year ND-less stupor and found my collection of games in my parent's basement on a visit - truly bless their hearts bc if roles were reversed I would have donated them long ago! Warmed my heart and was gagged to find my old sticky notes of puzzle solutions and hints in each DVD case, atrocious handwriting and all. Needless to say I am replaying them in my spare time, and with adult eyes, can I just say these games hit different? I am cackling half of the time at the silly situations and dialogue, and don't think they really struck me as funny as a kid who loved Nancy Drew books and a good whodunnit. ANYWHO back to my original reason for coming to this community - I recently opened my Ransom of the Seven Ships case to find one of my disks split from center to edge ๐Ÿ˜ฌ it is alas unplayable, but I was interested to replay it bc though I remember nothing generally about it besides it not being my fave, I read somewhere RAN had a black-face character - is this true?? With all of these games, I remember the general themes and plots, but most of them I don't remember the culprits or minutia, which has been fun to rediscover, but GOOD LORD that was jarring to read because I don't remember this game besides it had a parrot, there was lots of digging and sand and translating, and Bess goes missing but we obvi find her...can someone tell me more about what happens in this seemingly problematic children's computer game?


r/nancydrew • • 2d ago

RECREATIONS ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Making Nancy Drew good irl

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Recognize the games these are from? ๐Ÿ‘€ full video of the all day stream where we had a blast making this is on my YouTube channel - LibbyLoo :)

*Food not good lol


r/nancydrew • • 1d ago

DISCUSSION ๐Ÿ’ฌ Just want to share an idea and discuss

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Hey pals and gals. I watching a Vote 4 Holt video, and I got inspired by their Team Ned devotion. I started writing a short story for fun, and it quickly developed into a game idea. Would any of you ever want to see a Ned centered game? Iโ€™m curious how any of you would handle a Ned storyline.

My idea: Ned and Nancy are on a date at a museum, and catch up with Joanna (who has moved on from Beech Hill). While the 3 are going through the exhibits, Nancy recollects her time at Beech Hill, and says โ€œbut what are the odds of a crime like that happening a second time?โ€

Well, it happens a second time. A group of thugs lock down the museum so they can steal some artifacts. Nancy snaps into detective mode and enlists Ned and Joanna to help.

The three tag team like in Alibi using their phones to switch between characters to complete tasks, create distractions, and stop the robbery.

At the end, Nancy has a heart to heart with Ned about how much she appreciated his help. She talks about how she hasnโ€™t been the best girlfriend and realized through their teamwork how much heโ€™s there for her. She says she wants to do better by him, and work on making him a priority.

Nedโ€ฆhas the opposite realization. He talks about that he loves helping Nancy, but this was the first time he felt more like a utility than a teammate. Doing tasks, following orders, just made him realize his place in Nancyโ€™s life: a tool. He says he would like some space, and maybe once Nancy figures out how to balance her work and their relationship, they can try again. Maybe being the key word.

The game ends with a heartfelt goodbye, and Nancy stating: I guess my next case is the mystery of finding balance.


r/nancydrew • • 1d ago

#12 SECRET OF THE OLD CLOCK โฐ I forgot how pushy Nancy is in Secret of the Old Clock

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She's just deadass like "Hey man, is your bank broke?" and "So how did this old guy die?" like that's normal information for a banker to share with a random ass girl he's never met ๐Ÿคฃ.

I don't remember this game at all basically (I think I only played it once or twice) but WOW Nancy really does fit the 1930s books version of Nancy and her nosey ass well!


r/nancydrew • • 1d ago

RANKING ๐Ÿ† Numerical Data from Ultimate Nancy Drew Tier Ranking Polls

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hello! I wanted to share this in case anyone else might find it interesting. while u/southernfirefly13 has been running their polls ranking the ND games into tiers, I've been inputting the data into a spreadsheet that calculates the average score of each game based on the votes received. each vote for A = 4 points, B = 3, C = 2, D = 1, F = 0. the screenshot of the spreadsheet shows the games in descending order by average score. then I put the games into a tier list and ordered them by score within their tiers. for the S tier on this list, I moved the five highest-scoring games from A tier up into S tier (WAC only lost out to DDI by .01!).

anyway here's some stuff I thought was interesting from the results:

  • Secret of the Scarlet Hand ranked into A tier, but ended up with a lower average score than three of the B tier games
    • this also happened with The Silent Spy (ranked into B tier, scored lower than two C tier games) and OG Secrets Can Kill (ranked into C tier, scored lower than every D tier game lol)
    • OG SCK and Creature of Kapu Cave ended up with the only tied scores (1.61), but CRE technically scored a little bit higher with a 1.608 over SCK's 1.605
  • people were the most passionate about showing up to vote for Warnings at Waverly Academy and The Shattered Medallion (they had the highest and second highest total number of votes), with WAC ending up in A and SHAT ending up in F and yes I know what its real abbreviation is
  • three games got 0 votes for F: Message in a Haunted Mansion, Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake, and Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon
  • only OG SCK got 0 votes for A tier but tbf it did not have its own actual poll, while Midnight in Salem and Mystery of the Seven Keys each only got 1 vote for A
  • the most mid game, depending on how you look at it, is:
    • the Captive Curse, which ended up with the median score of the series
    • or Trail of the Twister, which had the highest total number of votes for C
    • or Danger by Design, which had the highest percentage of votes for C

so yeah! this is how the games stacked up by numbers. I created the spreadsheet and interpreted the data myself and I got a D in statistics in college so sorry for any bogus-looking data :~)

thank you so much u/southernfirefly13 for running these polls, they have been really fun and intriguing to follow and I've really enjoyed watching and participating in the voting the last couple months!!! <3


r/nancydrew • • 1d ago

DISCUSSION ๐Ÿ’ฌ Frank Hardy and Nancy Lore

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Iโ€™m doing a play through of the games, but just doing it in random order based on vibes so I donโ€™t really have a good cohesive timeline. I just played Midnight in Salem, and picked up on a crush dynamic between frank and Nancy - Ned even commenting that Frank was there and seemed jealous. Is this an underlying storyline in the games? A love triangle between Ned, Frank and Nancy? Iโ€™ve never noticed it before. so it feels out of left field and curious of opinions.


r/nancydrew • • 1d ago

DISCUSSION ๐Ÿ’ฌ About HeRโ€ฆ

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While I actually love their posts they have been posting but the fictional detective in me is like what are they up to? There was a show that I watched that had the main character spotting something off with his people that he trusted and so he couldnโ€™t help himself being too nosy ๐Ÿ˜…

Anyone have this feeling? I totally get privacy and respecting the decisions they may be making and being patient and doing other things but Iโ€™m just missing the old days! (I am slowly learning a game engine so who knows what I might make ๐Ÿ˜„)


r/nancydrew • • 2d ago

#18 THE PHANTOM OF VENICE ๐ŸŽญ Playing Phantom and was caught off guard

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Apologies if this was done following the event.. I had no idea she was featured in this game. As a big fan of hers, and recently listening to her audiobook.. this was bittersweet โค๏ธ


r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

#11 CURSE OF BLACKMOOR MANOR ๐Ÿบ Curse of Blackmoor Manner is entirely too hard

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Seriously guys, I finished it last night and now I remember why I didn't like this game as a kid. I'm 35 and working on a masters degree and I'm not smart enough for that game, how the hell were kids meant to be smart enough for it???

I cheated my ass off to finish it! It took me like 12 hours of gameplay according to Steam before I gave up and started cheating to finish it.

I feel dumb AF after all that, y'all ๐Ÿ˜”


r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

#16 THE WHITE WOLF OF ICICLE CREEK ๐Ÿ›ท Icicle Creek Lodge dinner

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r/nancydrew • • 2d ago

#14 DANGER BY DESIGN ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Weird Background Noises in Danger by Design (SPOILERS) Spoiler

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So Iโ€™m replaying Danger by Design right now and in this most recent stretch of the game, I heard some odd background noises.

I just went into the tunnel you can unlock in the park. And when walking through this tunnel, itโ€™s like you can hear faint moaning in the distance the whole time.

Then it was dark by the time I left the park, so I automatically went back to JJโ€™s to sleep.

This is the REALLY WEIRD moment. Nancy walks out into the kitchen in the morning and I swear I heard what sounded like a person being attacked. Like they were screaming outside repeatedly until the screaming turned into a cry and finally what kind of sounded like laughter at the end.

I know this is a sound bite from when Minette throws her first tantrum and you hear her through the door. But THIS didnโ€™t sound like Minette. It also wasnโ€™t the same exact order as she goes in during that part of the game.

Has anyone else heard these or am I going crazy? ๐Ÿ˜‚


r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

#22 TRAIL OF THE TWISTER๐ŸŒช Has anyone ever seen this observation?

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226 Upvotes

I'm playing Trail of the Twister and I noticed this observation, so I fact checked it and its true! I love learning random facts from Nancy Drew ๐Ÿ˜‚


r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

ALTERNATIVES ๐ŸŽฎ New Upcoming Nancy Drew Inspired Game Demo Out Now!!

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Hi guys!! I'm the creator behind Co-Ed Casualty: A Chandler Chase Case (a Nancy Drew inspired game) and wanted to let you guys know my game's demo is available on Steam now! Any feedback, bug reports, etc etc etc would be AMAZING! Would also love any suggestions or tips:) this current build runs on Windows only!! Working on a Mac build soon!!

Please leave feedback and bugs here

Follow along with development:

Instagram

Youtube

Reddit

Dev-Logs


r/nancydrew • • 2d ago

TECH HELP โŒจ๏ธ Playing old games

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Hello! I recently purchased a large quantity of the games off facebook marketplace and am so excited to play them all! My husband and I like to work on them together. We noticed that we had a hard time downloading the older ones like #1 and #2 etc. We moved up to Blackmoor manor and that one works, but is there a way to still run the older games? We just use an external hard drive hooked up to our normal laptops. TIA!


r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

RANKING ๐Ÿ† The Ultimate Nancy Drew Games - FINAL TIER RANKINGS Spoiler

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Hey Clue Crew!

No "gotcha!" moment this time!

Over a period of three and a half months, you guys have been voting to decide how YOU, as a collective, would rank all the Nancy Drew games, including a bonus round to rank the top 5 S-Tier games! Voting ending last night before midnight, and now the results are final!

From left to right are the Top 5 S-Tier games, out of 167 ranked choice responses....

1st: The Secret of Shadow Ranch - This game was the clear winner by the end of the very first day of S tier voting. This game received the most votes for first place, being neck and neck at one point with Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon.

2nd: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon - There was a point this game was neck and neck with Shadow Ranch, but alas, it only received half the first place votes and received more votes for second place.

3rd: Danger on Deception Island - Third place came very close to going to another game: Treasure in the Royal Tower. Deception Island beat it out by six votes.

4th: Warnings at Waverly Academy - 4th place's only competition was Danger on Deception Island, but as that game received more votes for third place. Curse of Blackmoor Manor came close to taking this spot, too, but trailed by a few votes.

5th: Legend of the Crystal Skull - Up until yesterday, Sea of Darkness was leading for 5th.

Thoughts?


r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

ALTERNATIVES ๐ŸŽฎ Do you prefer playing on console? Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn will be coming to PlayStation and Xbox soon!

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r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

#24 THE CAPTIVE CURSE ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Thrift store find

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136 Upvotes

Pretty stoked I was able to find this today for $2.50


r/nancydrew • • 3d ago

#17 LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL ๐Ÿ•ธ "Hey, I know that I don't know you, and you've made it very clear that you're not exactly fond of the fact that I'm intruding in your home while you're dealing with both the financial and emotional turmoil of losing a loved one you had a complicated relationship with . . . But can I have his eye? Ye

81 Upvotes

No? How about some blackmail? I promise it's not a sex thing, I'm just very passionate about mysteries. I deeeefinitely saw a strange man dressed as a skeleton, don't worry that no one else saw him.

Yeah, I bet you regret saying Hello to the golden retriever boy in your class now, Henry. It's fine.


r/nancydrew • • 4d ago

SHITPOST ๐Ÿ’ฉ Excuse me, WHO just SHAT by the window?

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165 Upvotes

the shitpost tag has never been more relevant.


r/nancydrew • • 4d ago

#17 LEGEND OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL ๐Ÿ•ธ ND walking into the Bolet house like ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿฆท๐Ÿ“š

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