Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships | |
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Developer(s) | Her Interactive |
Publisher(s) | Her Interactive |
Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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Genre(s) | Adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Ransom of the Seven Ships is the 20th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and must solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues.[1][2] There are two levels of gameplay, Junior and Senior detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, however neither of these changes affect the plot of the game. The game is loosely based on the book The Broken Anchor (1983).
Her Interactive discontinued the game in July 2020, removing it from digital retailers over concerns of the inclusion of a white Australian character who portrays himself as a Jamaican native.[3]
Bess Marvin wins a five-day vacation in the Bahamas and has invited Nancy Drew and George Fayne to go with her. Before Nancy arrives at the resort, Bess is kidnapped, and the only way to save her is to solve a 300-year-old Bahamian mystery. Dangerous waters keep treasure hunters from exploring the reefs around Dread Isle, but this remote island might hide the riches of El Toro's lost fleet of seven ships. Can Nancy track down the treasure before time runs out?
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | 78/100[5] |
Publication | Score |
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Adventure Gamers | [6] |
GameZone | 9.3/10[7] |
IGN | 7.3/10[8] |
The game was delisted from Steam and Her Interactive's website in July 2020.[9] Refinery29 reported that the game had been removed due to racist content, specifically the plot point of a white character disguising himself as a Jamaican man for much of the game.[10] Her Interactive confirmed this reason for its delisting in a response to a fan's e-mail, stating that the company is "committed to being sensitive and respectful to people of color, and therefore have discontinued the availability of this game."[9]