Nancy Drew®: The Secret of Shadow Ranch Reviews

If you like nancy drew youll like all her games.. so far one of my favs

fun point and click detective game.

A clear contender for one the best game in this series. Every core element of this one is pretty much flawless, while still being accessible to new players.

One of the Nancy Drew games' classics this game takes you to Arizona, where you will do some sweet sweet ranch work, ride a horse, go to a ghost town and discover the decades old treasure hunt of love. Even though it is one of the older games, you quickly forget about the graphics, because the puzzles and good story will keep you invested until the end.

Highly questionable morality. Beware -- especially if you are a young person or are buying the game for a young person. Contains mild spoilers: The story-line for the mystery revolves around a romantic tragedy type of story wherein a man stole what accumulated to be a huge treasure from innocent people (they explicitly state this in the game). For his crimes, he was put to death by the law enforcement in the old West. Before he was put to death, he hid away all of the treasure for his love interest, who blames her father for his role in what happened (he was the sheriff -- so just doing his job) and calls him the "vilest man alive". And they make it out that the father feels deeply guilty about it even though he was doing his job in bringing a guilty man to justice. So all of this makes it out to be that the thief who stole from innocent people was an innocent victim and that it's romantic he hid this stolen wealth for his love interest (so the innocent victims never got their wealth back) and the sheriff who did his job in serving justice was the real criminal. Like, what? You can certainly make the argument that the death penalty for his crimes was excessive but I am still deeply uncomfortable with the romanticization of the situation and demonization of her father. I played this as a teenager and didn't realize how immoral that is but it is very obvious to me now and I'm honestly pretty appalled. Aside from that, the actual game itself is fine. Has a cool baking and animal-feeding part where it teaches about measurements (ie how many teaspoons in a table spoon?). Which is practically useful and pretty fun to do in the game.