Nancy Drew®: Secrets Can Kill REMASTERED

Nancy Drew®: Secrets Can Kill REMASTERED

Skip · Narrative · 2011

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 33, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
3h 4.9h to 100%
Value
$6.66/hr
Reviews
78% of 339 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

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

Holding it back
Value$6.66/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews78% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 77% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 229 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

Play the Game that Started the Award-Winning Series!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 32-bit DirectX 9.0 compatible video card, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

52 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 45 percent off across all of them, roughly 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse ($24.99, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem ($21.99, scores 3).

More about Nancy Drew®: Secrets Can Kill REMASTERED

None of the 229 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here 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 4, 00:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I tentatively recommend this. It's a fun game, which I enjoyed. It is, however, much shorter than many of the later titles. I beat this in 2.5 hours. Whereas a newer game, I spent over 7 on. This should be one of their $10 titles, not $20
CelestiaKittenRecommendedafter 2.3hAug 2026Read on Steam
1 more review
Developed and published by HeR Interactive, Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill REMASTERED breathes new life into the first installment of the beloved detective adventure series. Instead of offering a simple visual upgrade, this version rebuilds the classic mystery with enhanced graphics, modernized gameplay, new puzzles, additional story content, and a revised ending that gives returning players fresh surprises while...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 12hJun 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®: Secrets Can Kill REMASTERED scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/42210/nancy-drew-secrets-can-kill-remastered
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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
Released2011
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate