Nancy Drew®: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake

Nancy Drew®: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake

Fair · Narrative · 2009

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

NO RUSH.

Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.

Length
4.3h 7h to 100%
Value
$2.32/hr
Reviews
92% of 307 positive
It needs 31% off ($6.86) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.86 or less.

Buy now or wait

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

Holding it back
Value$2.32/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 241 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Hunt for Clues on the Trail of a Pack of Phantom Hounds!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 16-bit DirectX 7.0 compatible, 164 MB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 53 times in the 14 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 12 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 11 percent of the games it competes with. 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®: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake

None of the 241 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.

Players

Players online
6 when we last checked, on Oct 8, 17:52 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

OHHHH YEAH BABY another nancy drew game beaten. it was ok!!! least favourite but still rlly enjoyed it!! im rlly rlly stupid but its kinda admirable my determination to beat hard games. i liked the constant refrences to diarrhea and i killed nancy in some very funny ways. oky bye bye xoxo cya later
familyfriendlyRecommendedafter 15hAug 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
I enjoyed it! It's a pretty simple and straight forward one. I wouldn't say it's in the "best of the best" grouping of games, but it was still good. Middle of the pack probably for me.
LifeOnMarzRecommendedafter 5.6hJul 2026Read on Steam

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

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Nancy Drew®: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake scores 62/100 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/31850/nancy-drew-ghost-dogs-of-moon-lake
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Reviews 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.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperHeR Interactive
PublisherHeR Interactive
GenreNarrative
Released2009
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate