Nancy Drew®: Danger on Deception Island
Fair · Narrative · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.7h 6.9h to 100%
- Value
- $2.13/hr
- Reviews
- 92% of 295 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $7.02 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
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
Plunge into Danger to Bring a Mysterious Island’s Secrets to the Surface!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16-bit graphics video card, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 51 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 45 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
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 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala ($14.99, scores 64) beats it on value, while it beats Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem ($21.99, scores 3).
More about Nancy Drew®: Danger on Deception Island
81 from critics against 92 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 236 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 15:58 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Developed and published by Her Interactive, Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island is an engaging point-and-click adventure that demonstrates why the franchise has remained a favorite among mystery fans for so many years. Taking place in the scenic coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, the game follows Nancy Drew as she arrives for what should have been a peaceful getaway, only to become involved in an...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
what other game is going to make a food poisoning minigame AND campaign so hard for helmet safety
Unpopular opinion perhaps, but this is not one of my favourite ND games. I just didn't get pulled into the story like I usually do. Puzzles were well solveable but just not as interesting as I'd like. I actually had to force myself to get back on and just finish it just so I could move on. It's a fine game, I just don't get why it's in so many people's top five.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Nancy Drew®: Danger on Deception Island 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/31840/nancy-drew-danger-on-deception-islandReviews 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.