Niko Jovic was a brilliant scientist developing a revolutionary new technology: wireless energy. A scientist works alone in the room, when, without warning, the man is electrocuted to death. The opening cinematic takes players through swirling snow to a strange looking lab filled with bizarre electrical equipment and an enormous Tesla coil, an alien-looking machine that emits high-voltage electricity.

And while the paucity of exploration in a largely mundane environment certainly limits its scope, the game’s focus on story will nevertheless keep you guessing until the very end.

Her Interactive has juiced up its newest installment, and veteran fans and new players alike will find the abundance of well-integrated puzzles to be both challenging and fun, and will welcome the continuing, steady improvement in the series’ interface.

At times as crackling, though certainly not as deadly, as a live wire, Nancy Drew’s 27th detective outing, The Deadly Device, is an intriguing whodunit involving dueling inventors, dangerously malfunctioning lab equipment, and an office full of brilliant, if misanthropic, scientists.

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