Life has taken me away from the things I enjoyed as a kid. I'm home for the summer and haven't had much to do, so I installed this game and played it all week! As a kid I honestly could never solve these games but, now I'm older and I can finally solve them lol. I'd be surprised if an eleven-year-old could play these games without help from the internet. Anyway, this game was thought provoking, creepy, and addictive. It makes you think creatively and critically. The ending was a little anticlimactic, but I'm too satisfied to let that affect the rating. I'm on to the next game! I still love Nancy Drew and hope more games are to come in the future!

This is my favorite ND so far and I enjoyed all the puzzles, especially the bento boxes. Also very scary, nearly jumped out of my seat!

My friend bough this game for me as a gift and this is by far the top in my favorite list in the Nancy Drew game series. Love the puzzles, love the graphics and the story line. This game is the reason why I was encourage to try out the other Nancy Drew games. It is a fun kind of scary and thank you Her Interactive for this awesome game.

This is the best game ever! Perfect for Halloween! Check out the Twitch streams from Little Jackalope and Tess on this game as well. Go Team Her Interactive!

I just beat this game and loved it no matter how scary it was. I played it with the lights off and a few times I fell out of my chair. It was worth falling out of my chair. No matter how many times I play it I still get scared. In other words, BUY THIS GAME!!!

This was the scariest ND I've ever done! Especially with one scene near the end. I literally ran out of the room when I saw it I was so scared!
Everything else is pretty. The mini-games are fun, but the puzzles take time, and are a bit boring.
Overall, scary but fun

Not for the faint of heart.

This is the scariest Nancy Drew game in the series (as of '15) Nancy is in Japan at a haunted ryokan. The Japanese culture in the game is great, the pachinko parlor, origami, making bento boxes.

But the puzzles.....*groan* Sudoku, nonograms, rentograms....so many horrible boring puzzles. That wire frame puzzle gives me a migraine. Good game if they had cut the puzzles by half if would be great. If it weren't for the puzzles it would be a 5 star success.

Im still recovering from this game. I barley finished it! If you are on the fence for any reason get this game!! It's fantastic!

Graphics 9/10: The graphics were amazing on this game! A few places were not the best but overall the characters and general graphics were gorgeous!

Setting and Music 10/10: The setting is perfect! The ryokan is beautiful and there are SO many places to explore in the game. It never got old! And the music is some of the best in any ND game! I even had to turn it off towards the end because it was freaking me out even more! Great job HER interactive!

Characters 9/10- Rentaro is HILARIOUS! He's definitely one of my new favorite characters. I absolutely loved his dialogue. The rest of the characters were well developed and had distinct personalties that made interacting with them so fun!
The phone conversations with Bess and George were great as usual and Savannah was hilarious was well!

Plot 10/10- So spooky! This game made me scream out loud at least twice. One part made me throw my laptop and run out of the room!! I never thought there would be a game to top blackmoore manor but this one just edged it out as the scariest ND game. The plot is engaging and I never once got bored with it! If you are a lover of scary games then this is for you!

Puzzles 6/10: This is one of the few cons I have about this game. The puzzles were so hard! And I'm a lover of challenging puzzles that take me a while to get but at times it was just ridiculous. A lot of the puzzles in this game made me want to bang my head against the wall and just quit all together (I'm looking at you bento boxes and freakishly huge sudoku puzzle). I had to use a walkthrough for 60% of the puzzles in the game.

Conclusion 6/10- My only other con about the game. I felt let down by the ending. After all that it was not at all like I was expecting. Definitely not the usual ND ending thats all I'll say about that.

Average 8/10

AMAZING game! Thrilling, spooky, exciting the whole way through. Definitely one you don't want to miss!

Happy playing!

That frame puzzle was probably one of the most frustrating puzzles ever. At one point I had spent so much time on it, I just started picking up random points and moving them to wherever, hoping to get lucky. That being said, this game ranks up there with one of the best ND games! I loved that you got a book of puzzles to solve (and one of them was Sudoku.. my fave!). The characters were well done (the dialogue with Rentaro alone was hilarious). This game had all the elements: comedy, drama, mystery, adventure, and horror (not many games can give me a good scare.. kudos Her Interactive), all put together to make one awesome ND game.

So first off, this one delivers the fear factor. It was eerie, and I LOVED it!! Oh my goodness, couldn't have the lights off when I played this. It included a lot of here and there places to explore and sleuth in which I loved. The plot was so interesting, puzzles were difficult but really good, and I loved all the history of where Nancy Drew is in this game. It really is amazing how I can learn so much in a Nancy Drew game. So cool. This game kept me thinking, wondering, and looking behind my shoulder a lot! Thank you ND! Awesome game. 10/10!!!