Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem

I love Nancy Drew games, i have been playing them since i was a kid and always played when a new one came out, but this game is horrible. The new navigation system is unusable, the characters and animations are atrocious. The interactions with the dialog even are bad. I am refunding this game . i cant play it. The newer game is actually much better. this was just a very bad nancy drew game. I recommend skipping it.

The plot is fun and the nostalgia is endearing, but I'm honestly surprised a game from 2019 has such clumsy controls. The game would be much more playable if rotating/panning/turning wasn't such a pain. EDIT: I wrote this review before I played the Hardy Boy's Ghost Hunt scene. The controls are the worst I've ever tried to use in a game. I'm shocked this came out in 2019 and not 2009.

New way to maneuver feels clunky and hard to track where you have searched. Also this isn't like your typical puzzle solving Nancy Drew game. There are only a few puzzles total in the game and it's mostly just a click along story and a mediocre one at that, the characters are more hollow compared to other games. I wouldn't recommend this one if you were to buy alone even on sale however if you get it in a bundle of games like I did during a sale it's worth a play through. I don't know if I'll every replay this one unlike pretty much all the other ND games I have played.

The game play was extremely clunky compared to every other Nancy Drew game I have played (and I've played most of them). I felt like it was one of their first games instead of one of the most recent. The story was okay, but it had a forced feel instead of the more exploring that I've come to be use to. I absolutely hated the moving controls to walk around and explore, it made the whole game really unenjoyable. I really didn't want to believe the negative reviews, but after playing it, I definitely understand them. I like to replay ND games after a a couple of years when I don't remember them as well, but this won't be one I'll be returning to and am disappointed that I purchased it. Based on the negative reviews for 7 keys, I will probably be passing on that game. Which is sad, because I definitely love the other games in the collection and would purchase any new ones that had similar game play to any of the ND games before this one.

This was honestly the worst Nancy Drew game i have ever played, would not recommend

This is Nancy drew, but not Nancy Drew. For someone who dislikes the puzzles in the other games this is probably your game. I felt more like a glorified errand girl dropping off pumpkins than a detective. I miss the puzzles. They need to go back to the concept of the older games. It feels like there were trying something new but left a unfinished game instead. The mechanics are not quite there and the whole thing seems more like a ball of loose threads than something than connects cohesively. It pains me to see the series like this, as I have been playing it since the very first game's release.