Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn
Fair · Narrative · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.5h
- Value
- $4.44/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 392 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.75 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
A young woman died near the White Oak Inn. Now, her spirit is roaming around, and an employee is receiving strange letters. What dark secrets wait to be found? The clock is ticking and you, as Alex Hill, must uncover the truth before it’s too late.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 TI or AMD Radeon R7 370, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 10 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 25 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 17 percent on value. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Whispers of a Machine ($14.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Draugen ($19.99, scores 29).
More about Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn
1 of the 325 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to August 2026.
The drop-off
46% start to 1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Finally!! A game that takes me back to the great old nancy drew gaming days! 10/10 fantastic! Can't wait for more.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A relatively quick point-and-click mystery reminiscent of the original Nancy Drew games. I enjoyed my time with it but it's definitely not perfect. The puzzles are few and far between and most of them are HARD, some for seemingly no reason other than poor design/unclear "rules". The game is mostly wandering around and talking with the handful of NPCs over and over until an event is mysteriously triggered. There's...
As a fan of the Nancy Drew games, I was let down. Thewy took all the worst parts of the games and tied it all together with terrible writing, horrible voice acting, and maybe 2 puzzle types
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Alex Hill: Whispers at White Oak Inn scores 54/100 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/2859200/alex-hill-whispers-at-white-oak-innReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.