Midnight in Salem is a point-and-click adventure game, the 33rd installment in the Nancy Drew series by HeR Interactive. 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. There are two levels of difficulty, Junior and Senior Detective - with Senior Detective mode featuring increased difficulty of puzzles as well as reduced amounts of tips and automatically recorded notes. It is the first game in the series to be made in the Unity game engine, as well as the first to feature Brittany Cox as the voice of Nancy Drew instead of longtime voice actor Lani Minella.[1]
Midnight in Salem was released on December 3, 2019. Unlike previous games in the Nancy Drew adventure game series Midnight in Salem features fully 3D graphics, with players able to "look around" within the scene, as opposed to viewing only from predetermined angles.
Midnight in Salem received mixed to poor reviews upon release, with many deriding its graphics, puzzles, and performance - but praising its plot and characters. AdventureGamers.com stated "Its character animations and lip sync can be quite off-putting, its node-based movement retains the awkwardness common to all such navigation, and what few puzzles it has are hardly challenging, even on the harder difficulty setting. Yet for all that, the charm of its characters and the intrigue of its story manage to buoy the experience up".[2] Others praised its educational content and focus on a primarily female cast, but listed it as "clunky" - stating that Mac users may have to run the game in low resolution in order to get the game to function properly.[3]