Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy
Fair · Narrative · 2010
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.6h 11.4h to 100%
- Value
- $2.68/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 353 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
Enroll in a School Plagued by Suspicions and Lies!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 32-bit 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.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 15 percent on value. It is pricier than 83 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 ($8.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem ($21.99, scores 3).
More about Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy
76 from critics against 90 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 271 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
5.6 hours to finish it, 11 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
58% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 10 when we last checked, on Oct 5, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
my favorite nancy drew game ive played so far!! felt like the puzzles were doable and i didnt need to pull a walkthrough every 5 minutes which was nice
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Nancy Drew®: Warnings at Waverly Academy scores 56/100 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/43600/nancy-drew-warnings-at-waverly-academyReviews 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.