I remember seeing someone on r/nancydrew say that Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys would be a great game if it was anything but a Nancy Drew game, and, at first, I whole-heatedly agreed... but after playing This Bed We Made, I fully disagree.
This is what a small studio mystery game should be. The soundtrack is crisp. The visuals have a style to them, as opposed to having that unity stock asset-look. The game doesn't wait for you to notice small things, and Sophie's voice lines help keep the player on the right track. The puzzles feel challenging, but not overwhelming. Just, ugh!
For a moment, I was sitting there, listening to one of the background songs, and I just thought to myself, "this is what modern Nancy Drew could be... if only." This Bed We Made feels like it was a mystery game made from a place of passion and love, while Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys feels like a corporate coddling piece where someone on top asked themselves "okay, just how little can we scrape by with in order to turn a profit?"
ND34 tried, but I just feel like, underneath, you can still feel that the team behind it wasn't as passionate about it was in prior games. This Bed We Made has personality and identity; Nancy Drew: KEY feels like it isn't sure what it's supposed to be, so it defaulted to using its past as a crutch... but that didn't work, and now it really doesn't know what it's supposed to be. It's a shame for the ND-series, but now I'm excited to see what Lowbirth Studios puts out in the future... even if TBWM is only like... sixth months old. Maybe their future games can fill the Nancy Drew Adventure Series-sized whole in my heart.
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second's (eclectic) masterlist
Hello! Under the cut, you’ll find all the fics I’ve written for these fandoms:
television:
The Artful Dodger ⁎ Bodyguard ⁎ Bridgerton ⁎ Daisy Jones & The Six
Daybreak ⁎ Deadly Class ⁎ Dickinson ⁎ A Discovery of Witches ⁎ Dollface
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier ⁎ For All Mankind ⁎ Gilmore Girls ⁎ Hawkeye
Heartstopper ⁎ The Irregulars ⁎ Loki ⁎ The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Masters of the Air ⁎ My Lady Jane ⁎ Nancy Drew ⁎ Never Have I Ever
Peaky Blinders ⁎ Percy Jackson and the Olympians ⁎ Preacher
The Queen's Gambit ⁎ Riverdale ⁎ Sanditon ⁎ Schmigadoon! ⁎ Sex Education
The Sex Lives of College Girls ⁎ Stranger Things ⁎ Ted Lasso
The Umbrella Academy ⁎ WandaVision ⁎ Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
The Wilds
film:
Avengers: Endgame ⁎ Black Widow ⁎ The Hunger Games ⁎ Inception
King Kong ⁎ Marriage Story ⁎ No Time to Die ⁎ Spider-Man ⁎ Star Trek
Thor: Ragnorak ⁎ Top Gun: Maverick ⁎ Twisters ⁎ Wonder Woman
daisy jones & the six
E / 3k / Eddie x Camila - “Just Like Andy Warhol Said”
T / 1k - “Life and Death in Laurel Canyon”
E / 4k / Karen x Graham - “Typical Wonderful View”
deadly class
E / 5k / Petra x Billy - “Rats’ Waltz”
E / 9k / Petra x Billy x Lex - “We Test on Rats”
dickinson
M / 2k / Emily x Sue - “Another Dickinson”
T / 1k - “How Luscious Lies”
G / 376 / Emily x Sue - “Lands Away”
a discovery of witches (phoebe x marcus)
E / 2k - “Gladly Be a Fool”
E / 3k - “The Night Today”
the falcon and the winter soldier
T / 7k / Sam x Bucky - 3 Simple Rules for Dating a Centenarian
T / 1k - “À la Carter”
E / 5k / Bucky x Sarah - “Chasing Water Pumps”
E / 8k / Sam x Bucky - The Great Madripoorian Snake Off
T / 3k / Bucky x Sarah - “Guest Side Story”
T / 3k / Sam x Bucky - “Never a Gull Moment”
T / 4k / Sam x Bucky - “Stare Enough”
T / 2k / Sam x Bucky - “They're Sayin' (You're Gonna Be My Man)”
for all mankind
T / 1k / Margo x Sergei - “The Bridges of Madison”
G / 286 / Pam x Ellen - “Ode to the Front Porch”
T / 1k - “This Mortal Doyle”
gilmore girls (rory x jess)
E / 11k - Dreams I’ve Yet to Find
E / 24k - You Need Me to Be With You
the hunger games
E / 2k / Peeta x Johanna - “Elevator Pitch”
E / 2k / Katniss x Peeta - “Finally, Finally”
E / 4k / Katniss x Cato - “Lonely at the Top”
loki
G / 1k - “If You're a Robot and You Know It, Clap Your Hands”
G / 1k - “Mr. Second Chance”
T / 2k - “Riding in Cars With Lokis”
my lady jane
T / 1k / Guildford x Jane - “After the Horse Has Bolted”
E / 3k / Jane x Guildford - “Bad Latin”
E / 3k / Jane x Guildford - “Emotionally Stabled”
E / 15k / Jane x Guildford - It's Enough, It's Enough
E / 4k / Guildford x Jane - “Pure Grey”
T / 4k / Stan x Frances - “So, Hey, Check Me Out”
E / 1k / Jane x Guildford - “These Days Forth”
never have i ever (devi x paxton)
E / 4k - “Boy Meets Girlfriend”
M / 2k - “No Harm, No Towel”
T / 4k - “Runaway Ride”
M / 5k - “Swimming the Sonoran”
peaky blinders
E / 15k / Tommy x Grace - The Grand Dream of Things
E / 3k / Tommy x May - “Preferred Pastimes”
percy jackson and the olympians (2023- )
G / 830 / Sally x Poseidon - “but for the grace of gods”
G / 1k - “lullaby for a rottweiler”
T / 1k / Percy x Annabeth - “salt-and-vinegar dreams”
G / 967 / Percy x Annabeth - “soundtrack to a tooth alignment”
M / 875 / Sally x Poseidon - “a tall, tall tale no one believes”
sex education
E / 3k / Ola x Lily - “and the stars (they all aligned)”
E / 2k / Maeve x Isaac - “Please May I…?”
star trek
E / 3k / Bones x Carol - “The Deserted Planet, the Gorgeous Woman, and the Goddamn Torpedo”
E / 7k / Scotty x Jaylah - Something to Fix
stranger things
T / 2k / Steve x Nancy - “Always Mr. Right”
T / 458 / Eddie x Chrissy - “And Here’s to You, Chrissy Cunningham”
T / 1k / Lucas x Max - “The Kate Escape”
T / 1k / Lucas x Max - “The Lovers’ Lake Effect”
ted lasso
E / 8k / Keeley x Rebecca - “Cat Ladies”
T / 1k - “Crimminology”
E / 2k / Roy x Keeley - “The Halftime of It”
E / 3k / Ted x Sassy - “Sass Backwards”
wandavision
E / 34k / Darcy x Jimmy - Hex Life
G / 1k / Wanda x Vision - “Mailbox Blues”
T / 1k / Wanda x Vision - “The Neighbour Never Rings Twice”
G / 1k / Wanda x Vision - “One Papaya, Two Papaya”
T / 26k / Darcy x Jimmy - Only in a Sitcom
G / 1k / Wanda x Vision - “Our Names in a Heart”
why didn’t they ask evans? (frankie x bobby)
E / 2k - “One-Man Chauffeur”
E / 5k - “Sailors’ Hands”
the wilds
T / 2k - “Fourth Coming”
T / 738 - “Interviews by the Pool”
T / 1k / Shelby x Toni - “a verse about expecting the worst”
one-offs
Avengers: Endgame : Dolls' Eyes
Black Widow : “Same Day, Different Jumpsuit”
Bodyguard : “Don’t Ever Let Me Start”
Daybreak : “Garden-Variety Monsters”
Dollface : “Fender Is the Night”
Hawkeye : “An All-American January Christmas”
Heartstopper : “we sum up perfection like a handbook”
Inception (2010) : “Je Ne Regrette Rien”
The Irregulars : “The Sun Is Coming Up (I Think It’s Time)”
King Kong (2005) : “I’m Actually Quite Familiar With Your Work”
Marriage Story (2019) : “the whole night and the next day together”
No Time to Die : “The Blood You Owe”
Preacher : “Lonely, Handsome”
Sanditon : “Finding Georgiana”
Schmigadoon! : “I Fleetly Flee, I Fly”
The Sex Lives of College Girls : “An Abundance of Caution Tape”
Thor: Ragnorak : “In the Arms of the Anus”
Twisters (2024) : “get ya thinkin' (that you need me)”
The Umbrella Academy : “The Park Across the Way”
Wonder Woman (2017) : “Unconquered”
my fic masterlists
10 fics - the artful dodger
10 fics - bridgerton
13 fics - the marvelous mrs. maisel (midge x lenny)
12 fics - masters of the air
13 fics - nancy drew
13 fics - the queen's gambit (beth x benny)
38 fics - riverdale
71 fics - spideychelle
21 fics - top gun: maverick
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