Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower
Treasure in the Royal Tower is the fourth installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive. The game is available for play on Microsoft Windows platforms. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. 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 gameplay, Junior and Senior detective modes, each offering a different difficulty level of puzzles and  hints, however neither of these changes affect the actual plot of the game. The game was loosely based on a book titled "The Treasure in the Royal Tower" (1995). Plot. Nancy Drew is snowed-in at the Wickford Castle Ski Resort in Wisconsin. Not long after she arrived, the castle's historic library was vandalized, and one of the guests was shouting that her room had been robbed. The castle was originally owned by a millionaire who had Marie Antoinette’s tower from the Château Rochemont in France taken apart and rebuilt into Wickford Castle, but the entrance is hidden  and sealed off. Nancy needs to explore the castle for clues and find her way into the Queen's tower. Reception. According to PC Data, "Treasure in the Royal Tower" sold 42,363 units in North America during 2001, and another 18,301 units in the first three months of 2002. Its sales in the region for the year 2003 totaled 36,847 units. In the United States alone, the game's computer version sold between 100,000 and 300,000 units by August 2006. Combined sales of the "Nancy Drew" adventure game series reached 500,000 copies in North America by early 2003, and the  computer entries reached 2.1 million sales in the United States alone by August 2006. Remarking upon this success, "Edge" called "Nancy Drew" a "powerful franchise". "Treasure in the Royal Tower" received a "Gold" Parents' Choice Award in fall 2001.