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Nancy Drew®: Midnight in Salem
The first hour is a test
Gets good by 1h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Started playing 91% of owners
Steam reviews 54% positive of 1,145
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours most reviews are negative (72%); after 10h it's 1 in 3 (34%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The opening is criticised more than in 97% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- 91% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 1,151 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 10.4h for positive, 7.8h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (90.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (23)
- "AW" Find a strange key. 100%
- Welcome to Salem Complete the tour. 83%
- Curse not the darkness! Nancy's beliefs are challenged. 81%
- Investigate everything Read every piece of evidence. 73%
- Investigate everyone Gather alibis from everyone for every crime. 71%
- Get stock from L. Decipher the coded note. 68%
- It's right there! Have your tea time interrupted. 68%
- Observant Complete the CCTV timeline. 66%
- Ergo ergot Discover the plot behind the hauntings. 66%
- Open Sesame Open a secret passage. 65%
- Family Solve the circle riddle. 64%
- A narrow escape Flee the ghostly terrors. 63%
- Another case solved Finish Midnight in Salem. 61%
- Breakfast Make way too many Johnny Cakes. 60%
- Everyone's chores Help Lauren in her shop. 59%
- Creepy Message Repair the shredded letter in Parry House. 56%
- Trivia Tamer Correctly answer the trivia question at the end of the game. 52%
- Heritage Lauren and Teegan share the Hathorne Estate. 41%
- Egged Find the (literal) Easter Egg. 39%
- The Will The Hathorne House estate goes to Lauren. 27%
- Master Sleuth Solve all master puzzles. 14%
- Happy Halloween Carve a dozen pumpkins. 9.7%
- The Book The Hathorne House estate goes to the descendants of the accused. 4.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-20.