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Confront Terrifying Secrets in a Haunted Japanese Inn!

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is a adventure, point & click and puzzle game developed and published by HeR Interactive.
Released on September 15th 2011 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 380 reviews of which 309 were positive and 71 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.6 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 12.67€ on Steam with a 35% discount.

The Steam community has classified Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge into these genres:

Adventure Point & Click Puzzle Detective Story Rich Mouse only Drama Great Soundtrack Funny Female Protagonist Classic Exploration Atmospheric Casual Mystery Horror Family Friendly Cult Classic 2.5D Based On A Novel

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows® XP/Vista/7/8/10/11
  • Processor: 1.5 GHZ or greater Pentium 4 or equivalent class CPU
  • Memory: 512MB of RAM
  • Graphics: 64 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card
  • DirectX®: 9.0
  • Hard Drive: 2 GB or more hard drive space
  • Sound: 16 bit DirectX compatible sound card
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X: 10.5.8 Leopard/10.6.8 Snow Leopard/10.7 Lion/10.8 Mountain Lion/10.9 Mavericks/10.10 Yosemite/10.11 El Capitan/10.12 Sierra/High Sierra.
  • Processor: Intel processor
  • Memory: 512 MB
  • Graphics: Intel GMA 950, ATI X160, NVIDIA 7300 graphics card or better
  • Hard Drive: 1.1 GB
  • Other: Internet connection
  • Attention Mac Users:⚠️This game will not run on Mojave, Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, or higher Mac operating systems.

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Oct. 2025
Shadow at the Water's Edge is the 23rd Nancy Drew adventure game. Nancy is staying at a ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn, that has a reputation for being haunted. There’s plenty of ghostly activity, but Nancy doesn't think it's a real haunting, so she decides to get to the bottom of the mystery. To solve the mystery, you explore the ryokan and several other locations around the city. You get to know the family who owns the inn and try to gather information about the family, their tragic loss, and what’s been happening at the inn. The family hasn’t asked you to be there and won’t talk to you about much directly, so you have to gather most of the information you need from other sources. I was interested in finding out about the family’s past, but the main mystery, what was really going on with the haunting, was fairly predictable. The true culprit was the only one with a motive that made any sense. Compared to some of the other games with supernatural elements to the case, this game is pretty direct about pushing a rational explanation right from the beginning of the game, which also helps clue you in to who was really behind it from pretty early on. It’s also weird that they straight up try to kill you and somehow end up with no real consequences. This was one of the most difficult Nancy Drew games I've played so far. I had a lot of trouble with the puzzles and I had to rely heavily on a walkthrough. The self-contained, minigame-style puzzles were usually fun but pretty challenging, even from the beginning of the game. They were all solvable but some were very time-consuming (the last big one in the game took me about an hour!). If you don’t like number puzzles, like sudoku, you might not enjoy this one. I had more difficulty with finding the items. This game relies more on picking up items than some of the previous ones, but some of the items or areas you need to interact with are easy to miss or hard to navigate to. Most of the times I needed a hint, I was having trouble finding something easily missable. This is easily one of the scariest Nancy Drew games. There aren’t actually that many scary scenes, but they’re well-timed, and the spooky atmosphere helps keep up the tension. The music is pretty but also very creepy in places. You get the feeling that you’re all alone and the ghost could pop out at any time. The only issue is the pacing. If you struggle with the puzzles or find yourself at times wandering around trying to figure out what to do, the ghost scenes are too spread out and it makes the atmosphere less tense. Shadow at the Water’s Edge stands out for its spooky atmosphere. The story wasn’t perfect but was still pretty entertaining. Some of the puzzles were frustratingly difficult and made the game too slow, but I enjoyed many of them. 7/10
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Sept. 2025
Almost every Nancy Drew game is great! I especially like the music and puzzles in this one, but I really enjoy Nonograms, Renograms, and Sudoku, and not everyone might like those kinds of puzzles. They're mostly optional though. :D
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May 2025
im really bad at this game its been 34 hours ive restarted thrice and i still cant figure out what to do after making about 40 bento boxes i like it though or whatever
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March 2025
If you like the Nancy Drew games, you'll like this one! Excellently spooky atmosphere and mystery, but too many number puzzles for my liking (I don't want to do another nonogram!). Nancy is also possibly the most insensitive she has ever been, which is really saying something! But I am having a lot of fun playing this game.
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Jan. 2025
This game is very fun. There is a lot to do and it takes longer to finish then the other games. Very fun and I did not get stuck more than once or twice. I don't have any negatives about this one, it was a great time!
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Frequently Asked Questions

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is currently priced at 12.67€ on Steam.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is currently available at a 35% discount. You can purchase it for 12.67€ on Steam.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge received 309 positive votes out of a total of 380 achieving a rating of 7.61.
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Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge was developed and published by HeR Interactive.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is not playable on Linux.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is a single-player game.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge does not currently offer any DLC.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge does not support Steam Remote Play.

Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Nancy Drew®: Shadow at the Water's Edge
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Developer
HeR Interactive
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HeR Interactive
Release 15 Sep 2011
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