Nancy Drew®: Legend of the Crystal Skull
Fair · Narrative · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.1h 15.8h to 100%
- Value
- $1.64/hr
- Reviews
- 91% of 223 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.98 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
The Search is on for an Unearthly Artifact in New Orleans!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 123 MB of memory, 32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 54 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut 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 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Thimbleweed Park™ ($19.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Broken Age ($14.99, scores 42).
More about Nancy Drew®: Legend of the Crystal Skull
79 from critics against 91 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Finishing takes 6.1 hours; clearing it takes 16, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
Players
- Players online
- 4 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 18:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Legend of the Crystal Skull is the 17th Nancy Drew game. In this game, Nancy wanders into a mystery while on vacation in New Orleans. While going to check on a young man who just lost his uncle, Nancy is attacked by a mysterious figure in a skeleton costume and discovers that the old man's passing may not have been as natural as it initially seemed. There are two mysteries here to solve: what (if anything) caused...
1 more review, not recommended
one of the weaker ND games. kinda just feels like running errands and a waste of a cool setting.
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®: Legend of the Crystal Skull 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/31860/nancy-drew-legend-of-the-crystal-skullReviews 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 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.