#playing nancy drew games lol

[alibinashes]

NANCY DREW O9. DANGER ON DECEPTION ISLAND.

“dear ned, here i am, on a ferry bound for deception island, one of the san juan islands off the coast of washington state. i should be excited, but for some reason, i feel on edge, like something’s out of whack.”

[just-a-madrigal]

Mmm, cheeseburger

Last Train to Bluemoon Canyon

Nancy Drew Embroideries

[nancynancydrewdrewdrew]

just finished playing resorting to danger w my boyfriend who has never played nancy drew before me and he was so stoked that he got the culprit right should I tell him how it works or just let him be happy lol

[hidden-clue]

I was re-playing the Ghost of Thornton Hall and can you tell me why were these 21-year olds writing people out of their will and having drama about it? Why would you even have a will at 21?? Why would it matter if your 21yo cousin had you out of their will, it would not affect you until they died?? Which would presumably be 60 years in the future? You'd likely die at similar times?? Aren't people usually hoping to be in the will of someone who is soon to be gone? Who has multiple versions of their will at 21???

[that-one-fandom-girl]

It’s magic, I guess, lol.

how does this stay together?

what kind of pipe system is this?

how is this efficient?

[henrikvanderhussy]

How to play the original Secrets Can Kill in 2025 without game discs

oh my god I almost just wrote 2015 instead of 2025

I've successfully been playing the original SCK for the past couple hours (including "changing discs" and reopening save files), but it's possible I could run into problems later, so no promises that this is a perfect solution.

This method still requires installing the game files, so I think it'll only work on Windows, sorry Mac users. I'm using Windows 11. I was also able to install and open the game on a Windows 10 computer, but I didn't actually attempt to play it there.

All you need are copies of the game .iso files and a virtual hard disk drive program. The post got long, so details are under the Keep Reading. It's not actually complicated, but apparently I talk a lot lol

The .iso files:

.iso files are digital replicas of optical discs (CDs, DVDs, etc). You probably don't have the original Secrets Can Kill discs, so you will need to...acquire these files.

[NOTE: My personal ethics say to not pirate shit from small studios or independent creators. HeR is a small studio and if people don't buy stuff from them, they can't afford to make new games. However, the original SCK is abandonware and literally can't be purchased, so imo, it's perfectly acceptable to pirate it.

I want to strongly discourage anyone from pirating any of the other games which can be purchased. They have 50% off sales all the time (including through today, 1/5/25) and a bunch of the games are as low as $5 when on-sale. The digital downloads don't come with any kind of restrictive licenses, so if you get a new computer, you can transfer the files and keep your games forever. Pls keep supporting HeR so that we can maybe keep getting new games]

I recommend getting the SCK .iso files from archive.org. That link will take you to a software search for Nancy Drew Secrets Can Kill. As of this post, there's only 1 result that's actually for the original SCK.

Anytime you're downloading software from a site where anyone can upload stuff, there's always a possibility of viruses. Check and see if the uploader seems sketchy (Are there comments on any of their uploads warning about viruses? Is the account brand new?). You could run the files through a virus checking program, but apparently .iso files frequently throw false positives. The SCK uploader seemed legit, but I initially downloaded and installed these on an old computer that I don't use, just in case.

There will be a bunch of files available to download. You specifically need to download the "ISO IMAGE" files. There should be two of them- disc 1 and disc 2. After downloading, I recommend moving the files out of your downloads folder because you'll need to access them frequently.

The virtual hard disk drive program:

Like I said above, .iso files are digital copies of physical discs. Similarly, the way to use the files is via a digital version of a physical disk drive. "Mounting" the .iso files to a virtual disk drive is analogous to inserting a disk into a physical drive.

Windows 8 and above has a built-in ability to mount .iso files, but when I tried that, I got a notice that the file was corrupted. The internet recommended that a dedicated program might have more functionality. I chose the Elby Virtual CloneDrive program, which is free.

Installing the game:

After downloading and installing the virtual disk drive software, navigate to your .iso files, and right click on the file for disc 1. Scroll to "Open with", and choose "Mount Files with Virtual CloneDrive". It will now show up as a CD drive in This PC in the file explorer:

Double-click to open the drive and scroll to "setup.exe". Open the file to run the game installer.

The game will install in a typical way. I think the only non-default option I chose was "No, I will install DirectX myself". I didn't actually install DirectX, but everything is working fine ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk, maybe now it's built-in to Windows or something.

Running the game:

To run the game, just open the game shortcut like a normal program. If you can't find the shortcut or didn't create one during the install, go to your C: drive -> Program Files (x86) -> Nancy Drew -> Secrets Can Kill -> Game.exe

In order for the game to run, you need to have Disc 1 still mounted to your virtual drive. Unless you specifically unmounted it, it should still be there, but if you get a pop-up that says to insert the disc, the problem is probably that the disc isn't mounted.

I was expecting that I would have to run the game in Compatibility Mode to handle that it was made for fucking Windows 98, but I didn't have to do anything. It just worked with no adjustments. A miracle!!

Changing discs:

The original Secrets Can Kill was too big to fit on a single disc at the time it was made! They split it across multiple discs by location. The school is on disc 2, while all other locations are on disc 1. So if you need to move from the diner to the school for example, you have to change discs.

When you need to change discs, you'll get this screen:

WITHOUT closing the game program, minimize the game. Easiest way is by either pressing the windows key or alt+tab. Navigate to your .iso files, right click on the new disc, and choose Mount.

Navigate back to the game and click OK. Easy as that!

Whenever you fully exit and re-open the game, you have to open it with disc 1 mounted. So if you saved while at the school, you'll open the game with disc 1, load your save, and immediately switch over to disc 2.

And I think that's everything! Phew! This got a lot longer than I planned on. Feel free to send me questions if you're having trouble, but I may not know the answer. I'm not an expert in this stuff, I just spent some time poking around at it last week is all.

Have fun! Go manatees!

[surely-sims]

Just finished your Simblreen puzzle and oh my gosh, thank you so much for making that it was so so so much fun! Reminds me of those Nancy Drew games, maybe you can consult on the next one :)

LOL This is way funnier than you think aha considering my Nancy Drew obsession and work on the Amelia Darnell Game so far.

I'd love to make more Nancy Drew cc, but i think only me you and Joliebean would download it 🤣

Thank you for playing!!

[diapereddoe]

In the spirit of being a filthy hedonist, I have three questions for you, little Doe~

How are your diapers holding up little one, I think we will need a check soon!

What is your favourite diaper design of all time?

And when was the last time you finished to diaper porn/smut?

Sometimes I hoard stuff in my asks and I was gonna do that with this one but I’m gracious

1. I’m in big girl panties and playing Nancy Drew computer games with a friend right now lol

2. The mysterious plain white diaper

3. You compliment a girl ONE TIME about how you got halfway through her story before having an uh oh in your diaper and suddenly she thinks everyone should know 🙄

[that-one-fandom-girl]

Not just what she brings in that game, but the things you can make her buy is sometimes…like “Nancy, why😭😆?”

Everybody says Nancy has bad fashion sense, but I love the way she dresses 😔 I’m a huge fan of button-ups and mom jeans you guys are just haters frfr (I’m also a secret horse girl and I love her horse shirt so so much)

[bluecrocss]

Those Annabeth "fans" lol

I really wanna let this topic go, but if I have ONE MORE non-black pjo fan, come on to my page and explain to me how "they grew up seeing the book characters (they're literally only talking about Leah, btw) one way, and they just can't reconcile it with the show 🥺", I might commit serious bodily harm...

They act like only white kids read PJO. I was little black girl reading it in middle school and annabeth was my favorite character. Do you think I was like, "oh she's blonde and white, how can I ever relate to her??" I didn't really have that choice, cuz as a kid MOST of the books/shows/plays/movies I had growing up, most characters didn't look like me. The hunger games, harry potter (forgive me, I was a kid), nancy drew, every disney princess movie, you name it. I notice how only white people complain about "struggling to connect" with characters that don't look like them, cuz POC have always had to do it. When POC ask for representation, it is because we have historically been ACTIVELY excluded, not because we can't connect to the characters otherwise 🙄

When it was halloween, and I dressed up as my favorite princess (Belle) and my brother dressed as his favorite superhero (superman), we just wore the wig and the outfit. I didn't need to paint my skin white to see myself as Belle. Yet every year there's this new controversy of some white person painting their skin or doing some offensive cosplay when they dress up as a POC character, because they see the race of POC characters as INHERENTLY part of the costume.

Why does your perception of Annabeth and the pjo characters trump mine, because you're white and I'm not? I fully viewed Annabeth as a white girl when I read the books, and when I saw Leah was cast, that didn't change my view of the character because her race was never central to the character. The author has stated the same thing. If you can't view a non-white/non-blonde version of annabeth (I am not speaking about the writing of the show or Leah's performance because this discourse started as soon as she was cast) as annabeth, then the parts of annabeth that actually mattered, the parts that Rick has identified as the most important, the part that I and millions of other non-white, non-blonde girls connected to, never connected with you. Rare representation of Neurodivergence in a female character, being underestimated (which had nothing to do with her being blonde lmao), perseverance, emotional vulnerability, overcoming generational curses and broken family life, abandonment issues, I could go on...

If you managed to grow to the age of maturity and still struggle to connect with people and view people as equal beneath their physical/material presentation, that is a YOU problem... the rest of the world shouldn't have to hold your hand through this.

And once again... NOBODY FORCED YOU TO WATCH THE SHOW. You don't like the casting, DON'T WATCH. Stop, coming to my comments and explaining how you're the exception, and you're not being ignorant, how, in fact it's the author, the casting directors, and the majority of the fanbase, who just don't understand her character the way you do 🥺

Give me a break.

[ghostdogsofwaverly]

I just made an ND quiz on Sporcle! It's about trying to remember whether or not certain game titles actually start with 'the' or not 🤔 (Definitely some easy ones in there but believe me, some are harder than you might think! I stuffed up multiple times while testing the quiz lol)

Here it is, enjoy if you play it!

[bitemegamer]

Log 01: A Note and Meeting Qiu and Tamarack (Long Post)

Something about this intro... It makes my heart ache in the best way possible. It's the start, the start to a new section of a new life. It is the Fall, the air is cooling down and I can feel it hitting my nose.

*Forgive me, I shall be using MC thoughts as that of my own and basing things off of how I would react, I shall be using first person writing

I decided, since my MC is 10 and I was a little bit of a nut at this time, I would have him believe that it was a ghost that poked him instead of him being rational about it.

He gets greeted with this paper, and... Honestly, how WOULD your little kid thoughts (esp that of someone who did believe in ghosts) think this meant?

*I blurred the last name for my own reasons, thank you very much*

I really, truly wished to be Nancy Drew or one of the Hardy Boys. I spend so much time watching mysteries with my mom. Probably way too much time.

Too bad I am going to break those rules, Mother! Muahahaha! I am a little troublemaker. Just kidding. However, it's okay. I have a way to bend the rules... Just a little bit ;)

*Proceeds to go to the woods, which to me feels like straying even further??? tbh, knowing myself as a kid, I would have done this without thinking too deeply*

Oh where shall I be going? On a cool quest! Off I go to the amazing and great unknown!

WHAT??? Man... :( I know for a fact I would have been so upset, yet a little relieved. Had I gone further into the forest, I might have freaked out just a little bit.

The ghost inhabits this building.

Also, random thought/feeling/vibe that I am feeling... This reminds me so much of when I was a little kid doing my own thing, just wandering about and feeling like the whole world was amazing and whimsical. As a kid, I would always go out of my way to have some sort of fun and adventure... Even if that meant getting lost or making something out of nothing.

A RACCOON!

If I end up dying, let it be known that I met the end of my life with the coolest animal ever.

I'm sure said kid feels very different about a total stranger being in their backyard climbing up their fort.

lol, he thinks I'm quirky...

I mean... You were the one who sent the note... Right? Right? Oh God, never mind--

Don't look at me like that *SOB SOB* I'm trembling over here as if I am some sort of scared little grey hound!

Nice to meet you as well, Qiu!

*Snorts*

OCD Autism meeting and seeing someone with ADHD for the first time be like (joking):

I decided to be a little more nicer to him and politely just point it out to him:

This honestly does beg the question for me... How often has Qiu lost something simply from people just not telling him that he dropped his pages.

That's it, Bud. You. Me. We're going to be in it together. You're never going to lose something like that again while I'm around you.

He'll listen to me, but he will have no idea what I am talking about. At least he tries.

Making art out of trash... I see.

Yeah... Maybe my joke about ADHD might not be as much of a joke as I thought it was.. Hm...

Oh... OH... She's so cute, she makes me wanna cry..

Tamarack really went: 'Wow, okay, *bye*.

Well... Since I have exceeded my image limit for this post, I do believe that I can have this a closing moment... As of now, my MC has met both of the wonderful romantic/friend interests and I think they're both so wonderful!

I know that I am currently playing the Demo at the moment, but goodness this is so cute. This reminds me so much of my days after school and spending time with my friends around this time period.

I can't wait to finish this intro out and write more about my silly little thoughts... Until then, I hope you guys have enjoyed my little comments. I love doing that when I play games.

[nancynancydrewdrewdrew]

It happened...it’s been so long since I played DDI that I forgot the answers to Holt’s quiz and was forced to look some of them up in-game...I have never been so embarrassed and/or ashamed in myself

RT to raise awareness + prevent such a fate from befalling you and your loved ones

[iwantakokokringle]

I'm also in my 30's and still here since 2012. Clue Crew is forever 🫶🏻

oh yeah i turned 34 last week so i’m still horribly too old for still having this blog, which has now been around for about 11 years iirc

[zannolin]

hi i just saw your poll about what nd game to play next and WOWOWOW A CLUE CREW BYLER!!! the herinteractive nancy drew games are so special to me <33 if it’s your first time playing then i hope u have fun! if it’s a replay, go with waverly (for the air hockey) or venice (for the scopa)

either way u should come talk to me about them because i love them sooo so much

hell yeah!! oh i love meeting nancy drew game fans in the wild <3

i've been playing them since i was in middle school and i own i want to say about 2/3 of the games atp? all the ones on that poll are ones i haven't played or haven't finished yet. icicle creek in particular has been the bane of my existence for years because of those damn chores lol.

[karlachismylife]

Me when I say things way too confidently given the fact I've never played or even watched the games

Pfft we all have our bonk moments. Sometimes even about things we know well. I just recently had to google a Saw character's name cuz I completely forgot it even though I kinda know the movies by heart.

Also might be unpopular opinion, but it's okay to enjoy a game having never played it. I have a PC that's barely alive, so most of my "gaming experience" comes from watching others play and reading wikis, and that suits me since I am more invested in the storytelling aspects than actual gameplay (as I said, Nancy Drew and sudoku are where my championship at, lol)