Graphics: Intel HD 4000, 2 GB of video RAM Memory: 4 GB RAM (absolute minimum – 6 GB RAM recommended)
Thanks for the feedback! First, does your Mac meet the minimum game requirements? Ghost of Thornton hall is especially great.
I recommend you download any of the other games.
Until then, do not waste your money like I did.
If they can fix these issues, I will update my review. I’ve filed an issue with Her Interactive on their website. What’s truly dissapointing is this game has a great concept and could have been amazing had they chosen to stick to the original format. This game is a huge dissapointment to us Nancy Drew fans who waited forever for it to come out. You can click on the puzzle and hear pieces moving but you can’t see what you’re doing so it’s impossible to complete. I’ve had to give up on the game completely because one of the puzzles you have to complete to move on to the next scene just opens up to a black screen when you try to solve it. There is a ton of lag and the game freezes constantly. Whenever I right click the frame shoots to the left. It says to right click to look around the frame. It’s super difficult to move around and get Nancy to select objects. After playing this game for 15 minutes I believe this choice made by the developers was a huge mistake.
Midnight in Salem does not have the same type of gameplay as the other games. I have all of the available mac downloadable games and have never had issues until downloading this game. I’ve been playing Nancy Drew Mysteries for years and have never had a problem with Her Interactive before. They're not even available for downloading to my new device in the app store. I'm also really angry that the company won't update any of their older games, so all of the money I spent on previous Nancy Drew games is lost to me because I can't play them on an Apple device anymore. I never finished because I just couldn't put up with it, when hours after I started there was still just nothing stimulating going on. There's nothing to figure out and the story is obviously someone's idea of a topic people care about, but we don't. You have to select all of the options in each area to continue, and it's just listening to really, really boring conversation. You have no choices regarding your actions, there are no puzzles, no games, nothing. I enjoyed so many of the previous games but this one has a boring story and is actually not a game at all. New technology is bound to happen and I'm fine with it, but the game itself is just really bad and totally uninteresting. Nothing like the old games (in a bad way) Sleuth at Amateur or Master level and earn achievements.