
Take a Wild Ride into Terror and Trickery to Rein in a Ghostly Secret!
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Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Take a Wild Ride into Terror and Trickery to Rein in a Ghostly Secret!
Ropin’, ridin’ and revenge. A ranch vacation takes a terrifying turn when a ghostly horse appears in this mystery game. Is it driven by the vengeful commands of its long-dead master, Dirk Valentine? Or is a living villain behind the ranch’s string of bad luck? It’s up to you, as Nancy Drew, to figure out who’s wearing the black hat before your investigation is ambushed in Nancy Drew: Secret of Shadow Ranch!
Care for and ride a horse to visit other locations such as the store
Work on a dude ranch harvesting vegetables, feeding livestock, and baking cakes
Try your hand at barrel racing and lasso practice
Choose from junior or senior detective difficulty levels in this mystery game
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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
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Great game, lots of fun puzzles in it, and it keeps you on your toes.
The only reason why I like this game is the nostalgia. I really wanted to like this game because when I first played the demo over 10 years ago, I thought it was pretty fun, but playing the full game made me realize 90% of the game is just Nancy doing chores, and the chores you do for Shorty is so repetitive. Some of the puzzles in this game are also really frustrating, like the magnet puzzle. I lost my patience half way through. It's not the worst game out there, but it's definitely my least favorite out of all the Nancy Drew games I've played
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Hours played at review time, across 52 reviews with recorded playtime.
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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.
I found the puzzles to be just hard enough to make it fun
The game was excellent! Much better than the book.
My favourite, Nancy Drew Game. Will always play & replay!
An absolute classic. Another one of those older games that really holds up well.
I love all the Nancy Drew games! I am an old school gal and have been playing her games for decades but with the newer computers it was getting harder to play some of them until I found steam!!
I would recommend this to fans of the Nancy Drew games, but not a first time player. I found this to be so tedious I just started shamelessly using walkthroughs because I was so annoyed.
I love ND games and I'm aiming to play all of them, but out of all 14 games I've played so far, this one was my least favorite. The story line is very easy to stall in; you can accidentally miss a trigger very easily and end up getting stuck somewhere without realizing what you missed in order to get to the next part of the story. Some of the puzzles are very unclear and clunky, and the horse riding mechanic is not intuitive at all. I also found a lot of the characters to be kind of flat and uninteresting, and although I love the Western environment, the world feels limited.
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