Her Interactive · All 34 games · One detective
Canadian content creator. I stumbled into Ghost of Thornton Hall in 2013 with no idea what I was getting myself into — and no idea how passionate the Nancy Drew community was. Within days, the comments were filled with people who had grown up on these games, people who had replayed them a dozen times, people who treated every playthrough like a ritual. I was completely overwhelmed. In the best possible way.
I kept playing. All 34 of them. I fell in love with the quirky stories, the atmospheric worlds, and the characters who somehow feel completely real despite being built out of pixels and puzzle locks. Not every game hits equally — I have marked my favourites — but even the weaker ones have that something the Nancy Drew series does better than almost anything else.
To this day people find me through these videos. "I grew up on your ND." "I rewatched your whole playthrough yesterday." "I found you from Nancy Drew." That never gets old. These games are still alive, still finding new people, still rewatching-worthy.
Which is exactly why it is time to play more.
"Your ticket information is enclosed. The matter of my necklace is very confidential. If you are as good as they say, you will find it. No questions until you arrive."
"Dad wants me to retrieve a 17th-century relic from a castle said to be haunted. Austria has been wonderful so far. I'm expecting good scares."
"I've been in darkness a long time now. I can't wait to see the sun again." — A Viking ship's missing captain. A sunken treasure. Iceland in winter.
"Pack a bag. Unlock your windows. Burn this letter immediately." — Art heists beneath the Athens stage. A cast full of suspects. Nobody is who they say.
"You are now dating a reality show winner. Go Team Tui. That's all I'm allowed to say until the episode airs." — Pacific Run, New Zealand.
"I will find the rest of those letters, even if it takes a lifetime." — Kate Drew's unfinished case. Scotland. Revenant. The truth about Nancy's mother.
"Many of the ghosts in Victorian-era fiction may have been inspired by carbon monoxide from faulty heaters. That explanation was not as reassuring as it should have been."
"The world fondly remembers those who always give, and soon forgets those who only take." — A physicist's suspicious death. A remote research lab. Someone wanted his work.
"I just remembered — I forgot to let the cobra go. I'd better go take care of that. I'll be heading home a little later than anticipated."
"Brenda's broadcast made national news — just not the way she intended. Now that I've been publicly exonerated, the town has really started to show its support again."
"The new owners don't focus on the deadly myths — they embrace the entirety of the castle's rich history. The bad and the good." — Castle Finster, Germany.
"The ryokan's no longer the creepy place I remember. Customers are returning with a vengeance." — A Japanese inn. A ghost in the bathhouse. A family secret drowning in the water.
"As long as it's somewhere the clouds stay in the sky where they belong, I'll be happy to go. I've had just about enough stormy weather for one season."
"Corine would no doubt have graduated at the top of her class if her greed, guile, and subconscious desire to retaliate hadn't gotten the best of her." — An all-girls boarding school. A mysterious Black Cat. Someone wants everyone gone.
"The only thing that sounded good to any of us, after everything we'd been through, was good old boring home." — George has been kidnapped. The Bahamas. The clock is ticking.
"The creepiest thing you're likely to encounter at Blackrock Island now is Harper enjoying a good book next to the tombstone that bears her name." — Ireland. A missing groom. Jetpacks.
"Helena insisted a terrible mistake had been made — all because of a silly American teenager. But then, all the stolen objects were recovered undamaged." — Carnivale masks. An art theft ring. Venice.
"The Whisper has disappeared, lost to the world once again. Bernie has yet to turn up. Maybe swallowing it didn't agree with him." — New Orleans. A dead uncle. A gator named Bernie.
"He insists he never meant to hurt anyone — and that he really was the best cross-country skier in the world. Unfortunately he'll never get a chance to prove that now." — Canadian Rockies. A white wolf. A uranium spy.
"When it comes to cleaning frass jars, I am an expert." — Hawaii. Pineapple crops, pheromone canisters, and a very real Kane 'Okala legend. With the Hardy Boys.
"Minette will probably be designing her next collection from a jail cell. And she doesn't care for stripes." — Paris. A masked fashion designer. Cold War espionage hidden in couture.
"Jake spent his whole life searching for gold when all along he possessed something far more valuable — his uncanny knack for making friends." — A haunted mining train. The Hardy Boys. Lori Girard.
"I'll fill you in over a nice big piece of slightly damaged cherry pie." — 1930. Nancy's blue roadster. Emily Crandall's guardian is not who she claims to be.
"There is a Beast of Blackmoor — it's Jane. She put hair restorer in Linda's moisturizer. The Penvellyns swore me to secrecy. Don't tell anybody any of this, okay?"
"You should've seen the look on everyone's face when I rode up on a glowing horse." — Arizona cattle ranch. A phantom horse. Charleena Purcell. A treasure older than the ranch itself.
"Just before I left, I saw something appear in the channel. Katie said it was just a log. But I'm pretty sure it was the orca, saying goodbye."
"Joy wasn't in her office. She was riding the carousel." — Captain's Cove Amusement Park. A horse gone missing. A carousel spinning on its own at midnight.
"Those four ghost dogs are actually very sweet. Sally is seriously thinking about adopting them. How's that for irony." — A gangster's lake house. Phantom hounds. Mickey Malone's buried secret.
"Poppy Dada has announced a new direction — all her new paintings will feature Mysterious Red Handprints." — Washington DC. A Mayan monolith. A very real mummy.
"This detective is going to wait for Vanishing Destiny to come out on video tape." — St. Louis. A historic theater about to be demolished. Maya Nguyen is missing.
"Il n'est jamais trop tard de changer l'histoire. It's never too late to change history." — A Wisconsin castle. A blizzard. Marie Antoinette's lost journal.
"A haunted bed and breakfast with hidden treasure is all the rage these days — even if there are no such things as ghosts. I think..." — Victorian San Francisco.
"Mattie and Rick finally decided to tie the knot — as Serena and Rory, but who knows, perhaps it'll rub off on them." — New York. A soap opera star receiving death threats.
"I'm headed to the beach where the only cover I'm going under is a beach blanket." — Her Interactive's HD remake of the original. The case that started it all, rebuilt.
"Case closed and Mitch is on his way to prison. Today, Aunt Eloise got a letter about a television station and death threats. Sounds like another case for Nancy Drew."
"A bomber is targeting the Redondo Spa. Her Interactive's real-time Nancy Drew spinoff — a shorter, sharper format that plays by different rules entirely."
"Lights. Camera. Curses. A Hollywood murder mystery on the set of a silent film — Her Interactive's first Dossier game, and the one still on the list."