Product Description

Nancy Drew: The Secret Of Shadow Ranch is a thrilling Old West adventure set at a vacation ranch. The terra cotta cliffs hide ancient secrets that Nancy Drew must unravel - A ghostly horse is out for unearthly revenge, and the teen girl detective must find out why. Separate the truth from the ghost stories quickly, or you might be next on the list for unearthly revenge!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2953 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Her Interactive
• Model: 25853
• Released on: 2004-07-16
• ESRB Rating: Everyone
• Platforms: Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.60" h x 7.90" w x 1.70" l, .35 pounds

Features

• Play as Nancy Drew in this interactive mystery-adventure game
• 20+ hours of thrilling game play; interview suspects
• New puzzles tie directly to the storyline and give important clues
• Solve the mystery on your own or team up with family and friends
• 2 difficulty settings for both experienced and new detectives

Customer Reviews

The Secret of Shadow Ranch
This is one of the best Nancy Drew games. Really entertaining and intresting. I loved the challenges and puzzles it had. Plus the southern theme is pretty cool and my favorite thing was the love story between Frances and Dirk, I think it was very well thought out and spent three days glued to the computer until I was finished.

GREAT FOR ALL AGES!!!!
I have to say that this game was one of the best in the Nancy Drew series! In the tenth installment of the ND series, players battle rattlesnakes, scorpions, and crazy chickens--and all tied together by the romantic love story of Frances Humber and Dirk Valentine. For the first time ever, your friends actually provide you with helpful hints through a new cell phone, complete with an Internet Browser! In addition, you get to do chores around the ranch, such as building campfires, collecting eggs, picking vegetables, and baking cakes. I never get tired of getting pecked by a nutty chicken!

Ride a horse through old dirt trails to investigate old cliff dwellings, stores, and ghost towns. Get locked in jail and even take part in a little barrel racing! Lasso-ing your lariat is another bonus in this game. Enjoy finding Frances' many favorite flowers and piecing together the love story of a sheriff's daughter and an Arizonian outlaw.

Hours of enjoyment for the whole family!

P.S. I guarantee that you will not believe WHODUNNIT!!!!!!

Good Game, But Frustrating
I am quite a bit older than the intended audience for Nancy Drew games, but I've loved each one that I've played. The Secret of Shadow Ranch was no different, with the exception that toward the end, I just wanted it to end. SOSR has more puzzles than just about any Nancy Drew game I've played in the past, and many of these puzzles are just plain HARD. (I'm looking at you, magnet puzzle.) Many puzzles are presented to the player without any instructions, so there's a lot of trial and error involved in figuring out how to even start them. Toward the end, you are basically just traveling from location to location to solve puzzles, which I found frustrating. Any game that involves a complicated maze is not a good thing for me personally, but I would imagine that many people enjoy mazes.

Having said all of that, I found the game to be exceptionally charming. The developers captured the feel of a rural Arizona town, and I actually learned a lot about the history of that area. I enjoyed several of the tasks that others didn't, like baking the cake, which I got right the very first time. The solution was only slightly shocking, as there are less than a handful of suspects, but it fit in well with the game.

Despite the many frustrations I felt while playing the game, I had fun, and to me, that's the most important indicator of a good game.