Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Fair · Narrative · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.9h 6.5h to 100%
- Value
- $1.69/hr
- Reviews
- 89% of 228 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.35 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
Take a Wild Ride into Terror and Trickery to Rein in a Ghostly Secret!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 61 MB of memory, 16-bit color graphics video card with at least 16MB of VRAM, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 38 times in the 10 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 13 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream ($9.99, scores 65) beats it on value, while it beats Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem ($21.99, scores 3).
More about Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
The press gave it 68; the people who bought it give it 89 percent. A 21-point gap in the buyer's favour.
None of the 200 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026.
What players say
Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch is another standout entry in HeR Interactive's long-running mystery adventure series, blending detective work with the rich atmosphere of the American Southwest. Developed and published by HeR Interactive, the game adapts one of Nancy Drew's classic literary adventures into an engaging point-and-click experience filled with hidden secrets, historical intrigue, and memorable...
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Pros: + horses 🐎 + cowboys + ranch chores + the Wild West + a ghost town + Native American culture 🪶 + a touching, tragic love story + hidden treasure + amazing atmospheric soundtrack + and of course, a mystery 🔍 Cons (excl. the antagonist): none. 10/10 - beloved for a reason.
I will say this one was not bad but it was highly annoying. I kept getting to spots where the game didn't do something so i was in a circle trying to figure out what i was missing. A few of the puzzles were hard to figure out i ended up having to look them up because the game said one thing but I had to do something else.
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®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch 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/572740/nancy-drew-the-secret-of-shadow-ranchReviews 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.