Hunt for Clues on the Trail of a Pack of Phantom Hounds!
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Nancy Drew®: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake is a first-person perspective, point-and-click adventure game. The player is Nancy Drew and has to solve a mystery. Explore rich environments for clues, interrogate suspects, and solve puzzles and mini-games.
A friend’s frantic note sends you, as Nancy Drew, on the trail of a mysterious pack of dogs whose glowing eyes and mournful howls threaten to chase you away forever. Local residents say that the dogs have come back from the grave to protect the secrets of their master. Are the ghostly legends true, or is there a flesh-and-blood explanation for the haunting howls? You must solve the mystery before the hounds catch your scent! Dare to Play™!
Explore a cemetery and a speakeasy
Take photos of birds and collect bugs
Find a way through a forest maze
Interrogate intriguing suspects
Choose from Junior or Senior Detective difficulty levels
The original #1 selling PC adventure series.
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Languages: English
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While this game was still fun overall, and while the whole ND series totally rocks, this was probably my least favorite entry of all that I've played on my journey of going through the chronological list of releases. Going through the maze multiple times for birds, bugs, crypts, and names felt like mindless repetition, especially after the first time going through it and after learning the routes. The puzzles themselves felt way too easy, almost auto-pilot level. The plot seemed too obvious as soon as you are free to meet all the NPCs. That being said, it was still fun and the NPCs were as enjoyable as always. It had a very enticing and fairly spooky beginning that just couldn't hold its ground throughout the game.
absolute recommend. dank ass drew game another big hit for the series. love it
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This isn't the worst Nancy Drew game I've played by any means but it's kinda low on my list. I didn't really enjoy this game as much as I would've liked to. Just to keep in mind, the menus were really laggy for me in this one. I'm not sure if it was an issue with my monitor or something (I played this on a big TV), but there's obviously no settings to fix this so I just had to deal with it. Moving around and talking to people was fine, but saving or doing any puzzles at all was agonizingly slow. The location would be kinda neat but there's not much to explore. The lakeside cabin you're staying at has a shocking lack of puzzles, not even a bedroom with little puzzle boxes in it. It's pretty much just a single room with one puzzle, an instant-kill rotten floorboard you have to fix, a landline you can use to get hints, and a menu to change the time to morning or night. The woods are blocked off by thick brambles, so the entire outside area is pretty much a straight line with nothing in it. The main location you're spending your time in is the woods behind the Malone house, an extremely annoying and confusing labyrinth that you have to go through multiple times. I disliked this so much and there's not much more to say about it. There's a lack of puzzles in general in this game: it mostly consists of talking to Ranger Akers, Sally, Redd, or Em and getting chores to do, then passing the time until the next day so you can get more chores. The game consists of picking up items and giving them to people, with 10 or so total puzzles to do and very little gameplay involved aside from clicking. None of them were particularly likable but they were at least memorable to me so I didn't mind that necessarily. I wish the titular Ghost Dogs showed up more frequently, they only scare you once and appear at the end when you learn who's behind everything. I know this is usually the case in Nancy games (you don't see the white horse in Shadow Valley or the orca in Deception Island very often either) but the ghost dogs were literally described as attacking "every other night" so I wish they were more of a recurring obstacle somehow. I also thought the ending was anticlimactic. All in all, I don't recommend this one, but it's not terrible.
I know a lot of people don't like this one, and I'm definitely biased because of my love for animals and my childhood nostalgia, but this is one of my TOP. FAVORITE GAMES. OF ALL TIME. (HINT: YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE AT NIGHT AS LONG AS YOU WANT. THE HOWLS ARE PART OF THE OST) Theres real ranger facts, real tips on how to do things, and how you find out who the suspect is, is COOL. Yeah its confusing and you get lost a LOT in that maze of trees, which I admit makes the game frustrating, but as long as you keep clicking on everything and read up on everything they provide you its actually a really nice game. This game isn't for people who want action and less reading though. It has OODLES of pages and websites for you to navigate and people to talk to. If you love exploring and reading it's amazing, but I can definitely get why people don't exactly enjoy it as much as the other games since every task is more of a puzzle than it is a adventure, and escaping from the suspect is DIFFICULT if you dont know the sequence to get away from them properly.
One of the best in the series. Nancy is investigating ghost dogs around a cabin in the woods of PA, where an old-time gangster used to run a speakeasy. Not a lot of characters to interview, and Nancy spends most of her time alone, but there's plenty to do. The puzzles and music are fun, the atmosphere is a light-hearted kind of scary, and overall things move along quickly. It's a great choice for a first game if you've never played one of HeR's ND games before.
One of the best Nancy Drew games.
Love these older nancy drew games. Filled with fun puzzles and spooky themes
*MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS* A classic ND game with great ambience. I love the cabin in the woods setting and booting around in the little motorboat. The bird and bug puzzles weren't as hard as I remember being as a kid so that made me happy as those were the only parts I was dreading having to complete again. Would have liked to be able to spend more time in the speakeasy throughout the game, but overall a great game with cozy and spooky vibes.
This one is very short and a lot less spooky than you would think, but still a good time, good puzzles. You will never expect how little it takes to push this culprit to be willing to murder a teenage girl.
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