it's up to you as nancy drew

Proud Nancy Drew Addicts. All Nancy Drew. All The Time. / Alyssa. Australian / Laura. 29. American /

[daretoplay]

Masterpost of Games Similar to Nancy Drew

I’m compiling a list of games similar to Nancy Drew that I’ve come across on steam, stumbled upon elsewhere, or had recommended to me. Disclaimer: I haven’t played them all, I am just recommending them based on other’s suggestions or from when I looked at the game. Feel free to add on to it! Some of them are horror based. I’ll try to note which ones those are. I’ll put the horror games in bold. The * will denote ones I’ve played so far even if I have not completed them. -Laura

P.S. if someone has played goetia and wants to explain the ending to me, please do.

Last updated: 9/4/2026

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Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun

The Cameron Files: The Secret Of Loch Ness

Dark Fall: The Journal*

Dark Fall 2: Lights Out*

Dark Fall: Lost Souls

Dead Secret

Gone Home*

Goetia*

Hardy Boys: Hidden Theft

Miss Clue

Monkey Island

Never Again

Odyssey: The Invention Of Science*

The Return of the Obra Dinn*

Return to Mysterious Island

realMyst: Masterpiece Edition*

Serena

The Suicide of Rachel Foster (Trigger Warning: Self Harm, Suicide)*

What Remains of Edith Finch (Trigger Warning: Death, Suicide)*

The Room

Firewatch*

Pentiment*

This Bed We’ve Made*

Painscreek Killings (Trigger Warning: Death, Suicide)*

Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches*

[natalyakayak]

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel (2003)

[ravangie]

Has anyone done this?

That's all my girlfriend and I could think of while listening to his story

[topeka-commission-for-the-arts]

I put Big Island Mike on my Tomodachi Life island, and he’s been working hard spreading the good word of BIMISM!

[neisanon]

Some Nancy Drew portraits I did as practice 🤧

I did it in a Disco inspired style cause I wanted to go fckin crazy and just paint with no sketching. Plus, I wanted practice in drawing a more diverse cast than just like… hot woman, and figured Nancy Drew might be good practice. Next I wanna do Shadow Ranch 🤠

Oh, and… WHALES RULE!!

[snack-shop-boss]

I just remembered the time that I looked at the Best Buy website page for Labryinth of Lies before the game came out and it had a fan art cover instead of the actual cover (this was after the official cover art was released) and the description of the game LITERALLY SAID WHO THE CULPRIT WAS so I upsettingly tweeted Her Interactive (because both them and Lani followed me because I’m #SoCool) and I was like “???” and they were like “?!?!” and yeah that’s the story of how LIE got spoiled for me

[ndconceptarchive]

This post was from 2019, but if you still have access to those tweets, please post them/send them over to us!

[ndconceptarchive]

Best Buy Spoiling Labyrinth of Lies in 2014:

Ok, out of morbid curiosity (and a long commute on public transit), I managed to find almost the exact best buy page on the archive, which spoils LIE. It's kind of hilarious to look at:

To make it worse, the current page still lists that same description (even though it's no longer available for sale via Best Buy):

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/nancy-drew-labyrinth-of-lies-mac-windows/8239016.p?skuId=8239016

"She notices the actors are running a smuggling operation behind the scenes." If anyone has further information on this, please let me know, since I'm so curious as to how this mistake happened.

[hrjafael]

New Nancy Drew inspired game in the development: this was posted in the ND Game Fans group but sharing here.

It’s called “Emory Cole & The Mystery of Operation Nightglass”

Plot Summary:

When Emory Cole moves into her aunt’s coastal PNW cottage, she expects a quiet space to write her thesis - until she discovers a hidden journal that points to a long-buried tragedy involving a lighthouse, strange lights, and a military cover-up that still lingers in the town today.

[detectivedrewshouldgetaclue]

👵🏼 ☎️

[you-have-made-a-fatal-error]

oh, this little gold ornament on Sonny/Nancy's desk actually works as a really neat little character detail! it's modelled after a pre-colombian artifact purchased by the Smithsonian from Thomas Herran in 1891, presumably after it was uncovered in northwest Colombia during the same period when a collection of so-called "Quimbaya Treasure" was looted and sold. the ancient indigenous peoples of this region were particularly known for their detailed gold craftsmanship and this artifact is just one example of an impressive and longstanding artistic tradition. scholars interpret this particular piece (and others like it) as a stylized bird, insect, or flying fish.

(note: artifacts uncovered in this region have historically been labelled as Quimbaya in origin, regardless of whether they actually originated from the ancient Quimbaya ethnic group. similar artifacts in the collection of the British Museum and the Met are now attributed to unknown Tolima artists.)

...but if we leave the realm of real scholarship and take a look at ancient-aliens-style conspiracy theories, we'll find people who argue that these stylized animal figures are actually scale-model depictions of ancient aircraft. there was literally a segment on Ancient Aliens the television show that set out to "prove" that these "Tolima Jets" were representations of actual ancient jet planes. and thus this is exactly the type of artifact that would appeal to Nancy's terminally-conspiracy-brained predecessor Sonny Joon, noted guy who thinks the classical Maya left Earth on spacecraft and somehow attributes Pascal's triangle to aliens.

[thebottleopener]

I wish real life was like a Nancy Drew game where my to-do list was automatically generated and I could call disembodied voices for extremely specific hints to life’s problems and I could also simply save game and quit

[thebottleopener]

I wish real life was like a Nancy Drew game where my to-do list was automatically generated and I could call disembodied voices for extremely specific hints to life’s problems and I could also simply save game and quit

[henrikvanderhussy]

Reference books from other games in the library of Secrets Can Kill Remastered

Marie Antoinette - Treasure in the Royal Tower HAM Radio - Secret of the Scarlet Hand Lycanthropy - Curse of Blackmoor Manor Gemstones - Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon Ichi-Do - Danger By Design Crystal Skulls - Legend of the Crystal Skull El Toro - Ransom of the Seven Ships

[autumnoiir]

[littlenancydrewthings]

I’m incredibly excited to reveal what I’ve been working on for the last couple weeks! It’s a portrait of Frances Humber, titled Flowers On Your Favorites. Drawn in pencil, inked with Micron pens, then colored in Photoshop. I incorporated as many of Frances’ favorite flowers as I could; sunflowers, tulips, and Harrison’s Yellow roses. The shape of the frame was inspired by the radio sitting next to her picture in the game. This is the first Nancy Drew drawing I’ve ever done, and I’m super proud of it. Click here to see it bigger and check out the details!

[marynostop]

Do I get it??? I don’t have a CD player but…. A dollar….

[neloony]

[captainjonnitkessler]

Babysitting a toddler is a lot like being the narration in a point-and-click adventure game. Watching him knock on the doors of empty rooms and saying "hmm. I don't think anyone's in there". Watching him attempt to use [spoon] on [cat] and saying "I don't think those things go together". Watching him throw a cup of water onto the floor and just commenting "the floor is wet now" when he looks up at me to see if I approve.