Nancy Drew®: Secret of the Scarlet Hand
Fair · Action · 2009
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.7h 9.7h to 100%
- Value
- $1.75/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 208 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.16 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
Expose Buried Secrets and Catch a Thief Red-handed!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 MB DirectX 7.0 compatible video card, 164 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 52 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 7 percent on value. It is pricier than 75 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 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®: Secret of the Scarlet Hand
At 5.7 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Sep 30, 21:56 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Recently replayed this for the first time since I was a kid. What a great point and click! I love all of these Nancy Drew games, sometimes for nostalgia but also just because they are generally well crafted puzzle and mystery games, the influence of which you can see all over modern indie gaming. Scarlet Hand has a lot of fun history and science behind it, a good amount of note taking, and a really fun and...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Secret of the Scarlet Hand is less action-y then some of the other games in the series but with a fun focus on Mayan history and knowledge! I wouldn't quite rank this as one of my fave Nancy Drew games but it's still a very fun addition.
This nancy drew game has no real story or mystery to solve, it is literally just playing around in a museum "tomb" winning pointless games to gain access to the next level. WHERE IS THE DRAMA!? THE JUMP SCARES, THE MYSTERY AND WHAT EVEN IS THE POINT OF PLAYING IN SAID TOMB WHEN THERE IS NO OBJECTIVE stupid. boring. annoying. waste of time.
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Nancy Drew®: Secret of the Scarlet Hand scores 59/100 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/31890/nancy-drew-secret-of-the-scarlet-handReviews 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 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.