Nancy Drew®: Alibi in Ashes
Fair · Narrative · 2011
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.8h 7.1h to 100%
- Value
- $3.45/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 277 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.62 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Escape the Smoky Intrigue of a Hometown Inferno!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 64 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 51 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 45 percent, about 14 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 20 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem ($21.99, scores 3).
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 26, 13:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
This is an interesting approach to a Nancy Drew game that HerInteractive created. Although there were some funky game mechanics... the game is okay. For example, lets say Bess has a item and you are currently playing as Ned, it would make sense that Ned calls Bess and then you are able to play as Bess, but no. You have to call Nancy THEN hangup and call Bess. Why even give the option to call any other of the group...
2 more reviews
I love how we get to finally see River Heights and we also get to work with Ned, Bess and George. Wish we can see Ned like how we see Bess and George.
This is still one of my favorite Nancy Drew games after all these years. I like how we get to play as Nancy's friends as well, I just wish that you could switch characters by calling each other, instead of switching back to Nancy before switching to another character.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Nancy Drew®: Alibi in Ashes scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/202670/nancy-drew-alibi-in-ashesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.