Play Nancy Drew : Message in a Haunted Mansion Online

Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion came out on Game Boy Advance in 2000, developed by Her Interactive. It was part of a wave of adventure games that tried to bring deeper stories and puzzles to handhelds, though it didn't always get the attention of bigger action titles. You play as Nancy Drew, of course, investigating strange occurrences at an old San Francisco mansion that's being renovated into a bed and breakfast.

You control Nancy from a first person perspective, moving screen by screen through the mansion's detailed rooms. The main goal is to solve the mystery by finding clues, talking to a small cast of suspicious characters, and solving inventory based puzzles, like using a key from a music box to open a hidden drawer. The pacing is slow and thoughtful; you spend a lot of time reading notes and examining objects up close. It feels like being a real detective, piecing together a story from the environment instead of being told what to think.