Nancy Drew®: Alibi in Ashes

The game was enjoyable at first. But then I lost interest. Not the best entry in the series. The puzzles were quite challenging, including the final one. Plus, most of the characters were unlikable. The highlight was definitely sampling all the different ice cream flavors.

This is still one of my favorite Nancy Drew games after all these years. I like how we get to play as Nancy's friends as well, I just wish that you could switch characters by calling each other, instead of switching back to Nancy before switching to another character.

In my opinion, this is one of the better Nancy Drew games from the franchise's later era. My favorites are (and always will be) games 3-13, but this one really stands out as something unique. It is the first (and only) game to take place in River Heights, Nancy's hometown, and as such, we get a more intimate look at Nancy's personal life and a better understanding of the way the people in her community perceive her. Spoiler alert: it's not good! In fact, most of the townsfolk see her as a spoiled goody-two-shoes and would love nothing more than to see her get knocked down a few pegs. And someone attempts to do just that. The game begins with Nancy escaping a burning building, which she is then framed for starting. So not only are the stakes of the mystery pretty high, it's also VERY personal. I enjoyed exploring River Heights and getting to hear everyone talk about how much they hate Nancy (it's hilarious), the puzzles are super fun, AND you get to play as Nancy, Bess, George, and Ned, all of whom are working in tandem to prove Nancy's innocence. Is it perfect? No. Is it on my top ten list? Probably not. But it's still pretty great. Oh, and Deirdre and Alexei are fantastic characters, two of the best in the franchise, honestly.

Quite possibly my new favorite ND game. I really enjoyed the story-line, characters, puzzles, and setting of this one. I really liked getting to swap out who I played as and being able to interact differently with other NPCs depending on who I was playing as. It was an engaging story and I was guessing who the real culprit was right up until it's revealed. It was really fun. The puzzles weren't so hard I constantly had to look up the answers either, which was really refreshing. I can't recommend this one enough!!

good game

Fun adventure game in the vein of the other Nancy Drew games.

A really good one! It was an fun addition to get to play as Bess, George, and Ned and to have the suspects open up differently depending on who you were playing as. Nancy was still the main character, which I enjoyed, and never felt like she took a back seat even with playing as her friends for most of the game. Great clue finding, great puzzles, and great suspects. I loved the side characters and the extra little decades old mystery we got to solve along with the main one.

While it was really fun switching people around a lot, I thought it was really short and all ran kinda quickly. However they stay true to ND games and gave us a horrible end game with tunnels that took forever lol