Nancy Drew®: The Haunted Carousel
Fair · Narrative · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.6h 4.3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.78/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 255 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.47 or less.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Take a Spin with Danger to Unravel the Mystery of a Ghostly Merry-go-Round!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16-bit graphics video card, 164 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.09. That was December 2014. It has been discounted 32 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 50 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 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).
More about Nancy Drew®: The Haunted Carousel
The press gave it 85; the people who bought it give it 93 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.
What players say
Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel is a mystery adventure developed and published by HeR Interactive, continuing the long-running detective series with another engaging case centered on investigation rather than action. This installment transports players to Captain's Cove Amusement Park, where an unsettling collection of incidents has frightened both employees and visitors. A valuable carousel horse has disappeared...
1 more review
My first Nancy Drew game as a kid. I just beat it for the first time because I couldn't when I was little. The nostalgia is amazing. My uncle told me back then that if I beat the game he would give me $100 but no matter what I just couldn't figure out the coding puzzle on the back of the arcade game. Apparently you had to type Super in the first field and the serial number in the 2nd field but it just went over my...
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Cite this score
Nancy Drew®: The Haunted Carousel scores 63/100 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/31820/nancy-drew-the-haunted-carouselReviews 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 16. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.