And to give you an excuse to use the trained wolf in the game-which in itself has some pretty forced explanations-they even tell you the Trapper had a pig trained to do some puzzling for it. In White Wolf, they try to convince you that the lodge’s builder, an outdoorsman called Trapper Dan, also created some mechanical marvels and hid his secrets behind a series of mechanisms spanning the entire mountain, from his lodge to a plutonium mine under the property, with an entrance located miles away. Contrivance Level: Epicīut the reasons behind the placement and even creation of these challenges are incredibly contrived. At their best, the puzzles are brainteasers, and you’re likely to miss a clue or two just because the games hide them very well. This is the first series in a long time to have made me grab pen and paper to write some of the clues.

Sadly, there’s also an annoying amount of mini-games. Very few are actually inventory puzzles, focusing more on wordplay, symbol matching, cryptography even logic. The Nancy Drew adventure games have fantastic puzzles and they’re varied. This part was funny the first time…not so much the 17thĪs of writing, I have finished two games in the series and am now playing the third (or 18 th in the series), the Phantom of Venice and with two of the games I’ve already noticed the series’ strengths but also some of its glaring faults. There is also a dangerous bomber around the place and even a dangerous white wolf, which you can often hear howling in the distance. Nancy’s there to deal with some suspicious accidents involving the dwindling number of guests at the lodge. I decided to start not at the beginning of the long-running Her Interactive game series, but with the sixteenth game and the same the Grumps were playing, Nancy Drew: The White Wolf of Icicle Creek, set in a ski lodge in Alberta, Canada. December 2015, during the last Steam Sale of the year, I purchased the Nancy Drew adventure game collection after watching the stars of the GameGrumps YouTube series play one of the games-at least for a few episodes until they gave up-and as a fan of adventure games and just getting into Let’s Plays, I decided to buy the collection and perhaps do a few playthroughs on the games in the series.

Nancy drew video game puzzles