Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch

Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch
Developer(s) Her Interactive
Publisher(s) DreamCatcher
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)
  • NA: August 30, 2004
Genre(s) Adventure
Mode(s) Single player

The Secret of Shadow Ranch is the tenth installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues. There are two levels of gameplay, Junior and Senior detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however neither of these changes affect the actual plot of the game. The game is based on the best-selling Nancy Drew book of all time, The Secret at Shadow Ranch (1931).[1][2]

Plot

Nancy Drew is invited to Shadow Ranch in Arizona for a vacation. On the first day there, Nancy discovers that the owners of the ranch, Ed and Bet Rawley, are gone. The previous evening, a glowing horse came galloping up to the ranch, causing a huge commotion, and shortly after, Mr. Rawley was bitten by a venomous snake and rushed to the hospital.

Dirk Valentine, an outlaw from the 1880s, was romantically involved with the sheriff's daughter, Frances Humber, who lived at Shadow Ranch. Dirk was arrested and eventually hanged, but local legend says that Dirk's horse has come back to avenge its master and that misfortune will befall whoever sets eyes on it.

Development

Characters

Cast

Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries: Shadow Ranch

In early 2011, Her Interactive released an app called Shadow Ranch under their new subseries of Nancy Drew games entitled Mobile Mysteries. Shadow Ranch is a story-based gamebook app with the book aspect of it as the actual text of the Shadow Ranch novel and the game aspect of it as minigames within the story. The game shows the voices and screenshots of characters and locations from the The Secret of Shadow Ranch PC game. Shadow Ranch is available only for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch, priced at $2.99 for the iPad and $0.99 for the iPhone and iPod Touch.[4][5]

References

  1. , The Secret of Shadow Ranch Teaser Trailer
  2. "Nancy Drew The Secret of Shadow Ranch | Girl Games Online". Her Interactive. Archived from the original on July 8, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
  3. "Nancy Drew The Secret of Shadow Ranch IMDb".
  4. , Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries: Shadow Ranch Teaser Trailer
  5. "Nancy Drew Mobile Mysteries Shadow Ranch | Girl Games Online". Her Interactive. Archived from the original on July 29, 2013. Retrieved June 13, 2013.
Preceded by
Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island
Nancy Drew Computer Games Succeeded by
Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor
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