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Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock 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…

80 12 July 2005

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock is an adventure developed by Her Interactive, released 12 July 2005 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock is

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock is an adventure game developed by Her Interactive and released in 2005. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The year is 1930. A fiery explosion at the Lilac Inn leaves its owner, Emily Crandall, teetering on the edge of sanity and propels you, as Nancy Drew, headlong into adventure. A will left behind by an eccentric millionaire could solve Emily’s problems, and fortunately, you’ve got a car and can drive anywhere you want. But watch out! When you’re on the trail of a desperate villain, the road can get very bumpy! Dare to Play.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Nancy Drew series

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock is the 12th of 42 entries we hold in the Nancy Drew series. It arrived 9 months after Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor. The next entry was Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon in 2005. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

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How it was received

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 400 MHz CPU, 64MB RAM and 16-bit DirectX compatible video card. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.

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What it launched against

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock launched on 12 July 2005, within three weeks of Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 2, Advance Wars: Dual Strike, We Love Katamari, Fatal Frame III: The Tormented.

Cheats and codes

We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.

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Quick answers

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock — frequently asked questions

When did Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock come out?
Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock was released on 12 July 2005 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock?
At minimum, Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock needs 400 MHz CPU, 64MB RAM, 16-bit DirectX compatible video card graphics, 300MB of free space of storage.
How many GB is Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock?
The PC version needs about 0.3 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("300MB of free space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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