Yeah, we’d karate chop her too…But don’t worry! With the exception of the first game, there are no murders, and no real violence. Here there are entire manor houses, entire castles to explore – drawers to rifle through, phone calls to eavesdrop on, secret passages to find, and finally … a culprit to face down and defeat. You play in first person as Nancy herself, sleuthing through the environments, talking to people, finding clues, solving puzzles. So she hops a plane to … (England, Arizona, Ireland, what have you). Each one starts the same way: Someone needs help, and only Nancy can help them. These are completely immersive environments with graphics that become more sophisticated with each game. Usually the Fall title is a spookier mystery with lots of seasonally appropriate ambience (It’s a blizzard at the Boarding School! What’s that howling in the English Manor House? ), while the Spring/Summer title is more like a vacation (Welcome to a Deserted Island! How about a trip to Venice?) Since their first title “Secrets Can Kill” in 1998, Her Interactive has consistently put out two titles a year. Honestly, sometimes I start on Junior Detective in case of a dreaded slider puzzle. You choose between Junior and Senior Detective, and the key differences here is the absence of a Task List in Senior (you’d be surprised how handy this is, even for experienced gamers) and how hard the puzzles are.
While these games are perfectly appropriate for younger people (I wouldn’t recommend them for small children-the narratives are too complex and the puzzles too sophisticated), it really is a game for everyone who values story and snooping above all else in gaming. (Except #28, the most recent so NO SPOILERS) Does the ghost want to help, or hinder Nancy’s progress? Either way, Nancy’s going to have to unravel the clues from both the living and the dead to solve the crimes.Don’t give any spoilers!She is the undisputed Queen of Girl Sleuths, the Uber-Goddess with a roadster, so it should be no surprise that the Nancy Drew Mystery Games by Her Interactive, truly truly have no peer in the realm.Įvery. When a supernatural presence begins to haunt Nancy’s investigation, she discovers that the current crime has a connection to the long-unsolved murder of a local girl. Nancy’s reawakening brings her into conflict with her widowed father, Carson Drew (Wolf), who is dating Detective Karen Hart (August). The five suspects must team up to clear their own names – encountering emotional entanglements and even more mysteries along the way. They include Nancy’s nemesis from high school, George Fan (Lewis) a rich girl with a mysterious past, Bess Marvin (Jaizani) Nancy’s secret boyfriend, Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Kasim) and amiable burnout Ace (Saxon). When a socialite is murdered, Nancy finds herself a prime suspect in the crime, along with a group of other teens who were present at the scene. Devastated by her mother’s passing, Nancy swears off crime-solving while counting the days until she can re-apply to college.
Her sense of self had come from solving mysteries in her hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine – until her mother’s untimely death derails Nancy’s college plans. Performers include: Kennedy McMann, Scott Wolf, Alex Saxon, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim, Riley Smith, and Alvina August.īased on the Nancy Drew mystery book series, this show follows Nancy Drew (McMann), a brilliant teenage detective. Photo: Robert Falconer/The CW - © 2019 The CW Network, LLC.