Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

the mysteries were uncompelling... relying on shaky "logic" that felt more like blind guesswork than actual deduction

[b]Duck Detective always finds the quackin’ perp![/b] In Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, we play as, you guessed it, a duck who is also a detective. However, he’s a “down on his luck” duck as he’s freshly divorced, still in the addicting arms of bread, and struggling for money. After gathering himself after a particularly hard night, his phone rings. Our little Duck Detective, or Eugene McQuacklin, may have embarrassed himself when he picked up the phone, but he has a client and a new case to solve! The case? The mystery of who’s stealing your client’s lunch. Overall, I did enjoy the story and was engaged throughout. I quite liked talking to all the different characters here and trying to figure things out with a cast that were really mainly focused on what they were doing rather than helping you investigate the case. You also do get a peak into the people’s lives, as you get to learn a bit about them and the day still continues despite you being there. I did also like how someone stealing a lunch was what uncovered everything else that was going on here. I honestly was not expecting the game to go into serious crimes with how lighthearted the game looks and is. Not to mention that I loved the writing style and humor. Gameplay here is pretty simple. Aside from Duck Detective’s apartment in the prologue, you’ll be able to roam around the BearBus office to investigate the case. You’ll mainly have free run, you do need to unlock areas, and any interactable spots have dots above them to indicate that. If it’s something in the environment or an item, you’ll either have Duck Detective comment on it or have it be something he inspects as it’s something he needs to look closer at. For characters, Duck Detective will be able to talk to them, question them on specific pieces of evidence or about someone else, and inspect them. When you go into inspect something or someone closer, it’ll appear on the left with the Duck Detective’s journal on the right showing you how many clues you need to find. Here, your cursor turns into a magnifying glass where you’ll get to see the more detailed version of the object or person through it and, if it’s a clue, you’ll get a keyword out of it. You’ll also get keywords through overhearing conversations and through conversations you have with the characters. So, what are the keywords words for? They’re used for deductions, or deducktions as this Duck Detective calls them, for the various questions Duck Detective has throughout the investigation. Like whom the suspects are and what their job is. Deducktions are basically the progression gates that you need to solve to be able to progress. Each deducktion, which you’ll do in Duck Detective’s journal, consists of a statement with blanks you need to fill. These blanks in the sentence(s) need to be filled with the correct keyword and you can actually see the related keywords and if you found all of them. You need to find all of them. Trust me, there were two deducktions I thought you didn’t need to, but you did as it needed the keyword I didn’t yet have. All you have to do is choose the correct keyword for each blank space and it’ll tell you if you got it right or about how many blanks you got wrong. You get just enough of the statement to get what it should say, though there were a few that were a bit intimidating. [code]💜 Check out a more in-depth review at [url=https://witchsreviewcorner.com/2026/07/15/duck-detective-the-secret-salami-review/]Witch’s Review Corner[/url] 💜 [/code] However, contrary to what you’d expect, some deducktions are actually hard. There are even some puzzles, which one of them turned out to be hard. This is due to the game asking you to pay attention to the details you see when inspecting things (or people) that the game doesn’t bring attention to. This is due to inspection only bringing attention to aspects that’ll give you keywords for deducktions rather than clues that pertain to what you’re looking for at the moment or suspicious clues that’ll come into play later. Once I did realize that the game was doing this, I did like it as it did bring in some more difficulty, has you be more attentive, and there are some clever connections you can make; but it does cause confusion as the deducktions don’t make sense if you don’t realize it. Due to coming across the clues before the deducktion comes around, it can seem like there’s no way you’ll be able to know that, or make it seem like a stretch, since you did get the clues for it before it was relevant. Don’t get me wrong, there are deducktions that are still a stretch, but most of them actually aren’t as the clues are technically in the background since the focus is finding keywords. Aside from it being where you make deducktions, the journal is also where you’ll: be able to see the list of suspects with their keywords (which you got by inspecting them and also define them); your inventory which is mainly where you’ll be able to look at objects you already examined without having to go back to where it’s located at; and look at the map which also tells you if there’s something or someone you haven’t interacted with yet. Like, there were a couple items that I didn’t even notice until I went back to take a closer look after looking at the map and noticing there was a marker there. Just make sure you know the location it is (embarrassingly, I was looking for something I missed in the office when the marker was actually in reception). There’s also a hint system if you need help. I only used this a couple times, but it’s framed as the Duck Detective pondering on the case and you’ll be able to get a hint for the specific spot you’re stuck on. There’s also a Story Mode setting which tells you which keywords are in the right blanks for deducktions. Personally, I only got seriously stuck on one puzzle and, to be fair, it seemed like a lot of people got stuck and misinterpreted the clue for it too. Sadly, Duck Detective does have some negatives. There are some story beats that didn’t make much sense or were a stretch. While you uncover two big, serious, crimes you only do a big reveal for one of them and get the option to arrest the perpetrator(s) for one of the cases while the other perpetrators of the other were let go because Duck Detective seen it as not related to his original case. Aside from that, there were some dialogue that you couldn’t hear again that was important for a deducktion. Some people may also not like how elements that weren’t directly pointed out was important for deductions, as inspecting things were mainly to get keywords rather than pointing out important clues or suspicious details. Some deducktions were a bit of a stretch even when you pay attention to what the game doesn’t directly point out. Like what was happening in the kitchen could have used an environmental clue as the clues there (one of which is dialogue you can’t hear again) don’t definitely point to the answer. Lastly, there were some inspection clues that were too small and caused me to have a hard time finding it. [h1]Verdict[/h1] Overall, I really liked Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. I didn’t love it as much as I thought I would, but I still really liked it and I do think it’s worth the price point. There are some aspects of the story that doesn’t make sense, was a bit of a stretch, or wished it was included; but it has really cute graphics, good voice acting, good detective mechanics, surprisingly harder than you’d expect based on how it looks and the tutorial deductions are, and a story that’ll keep you interested until the end. [code]💜 Check out my other reviews at [url=https://witchsreviewcorner.com]Witch’s Review Corner[/url] or visit my Curator[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28714255/] The Witch’s Corner![/url] 💜 [/code]

I had no idea what I was getting into playing this. I saw there was a duck detective and said "that sounds cute" and bought it. I did NOT expect it to be so funny and I did NOT expect it to have amazing voice acting. I thought that this would have been a game for kids that adults could also enjoy (kinda like the Frog Detective games). And yeah while I GUESS this could be considered kid friendly, you can definitely tell it was tailored to an older audience (teens/adults). I would looooove to play a full length game of this tbh. I'd invest 10 hours in it!!

1小时超短篇。 推理解谜成分约等于没有，全程枚举调查后做完形填空。 有点黑色幽默的基调，但笔力太弱，也浪费全程配音了。 总体比较意义不明的游戏。

Too short. Great voice acting and art. But the ENTIRE game takes place in 4 rooms in a Bus Station office. Dude, this was boring in the end. I love point and click adventures and this wasn't very good.

A good and very fun little detective game. Funny little twists and turns.

The game itself is well put together. I didn’t encounter any bugs, the mechanics make sense, and the art style is cute. My two main qualms: 1. It’s too short. 2. There is no real satisfaction to be had in figuring something out. I honestly thought the first case would be the first of like, three or something. Nope. It wasn’t, but I could at least live with that if I was emotionally invested in the story and/or the characters, but… Nope. There really wasn’t enough time to get to know any of them, and while some of the surface level details are cute, I wouldn’t be able to say I had a favourite, or that I ultimately cared what happened to anybody. The case was pretty straightforward, and if I ever got stuck, I found I could just jam random words into the blanks until something fit, more often than not. And like I mentioned prior, there was no real satisfaction in figuring out anything - no major plot twists, no big new location that opens up for exploration… nothing. It could be that I was looking for something a little more meaty and harrowing, like Obra Dinn or Roottrees, and what I ended up with was the cosy version of that, which was a little too cosy for my tastes. I guess I wanted something more challenging that lasted longer than what I got here. It’s not like it’s a bad game, and if you know it’s short and sweet and generally simple with zero replayability going in - and you’re able to get it on sale - more power to you. I love ducks, and I love detectives - but Duck Detective just wasn’t for me.

A delightful and short ducktective game with a charming artstyle, and solid puzzles.

This was a really fun and cutesy game. It was pretty easy to understand what to do in Story Mode and is also a calming game. As someone who played this right after a horror game, I was able to breathe properly again thanks to Duck Detective lol. Furthermore, it has a very interesting plot with a unique twist at the end. I enjoyed the characters personalities and how each of them slowly showed them true selves as you delve deeper into the story line. I am heavily looking forward to buying the other game in this series! Amazing work <3 Also, here's a link to my YouTube video of me playing this hehe :3 https://youtu.be/Wl9DJDXpS8E?si=P6_QBbr-Phm_ciE_

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami es un videojuego estilo point-and-click de puzzles detectivesco comico de corta duración (unas 3-4 horas), donde encarnamos al susodicho detective pato en un caso de robo al parecer sencillo de resolver pero que se complejiza y complica más de lo que él se imaginaba. La historia del caso es super entretenida y graciosa y todos los personajes super carismaticos, sus actores de voz le dan al clavo en sus breves pero destacadas interpretaciones. La jugabilidad es al estilo aventura grafica, mover al personaje por el escenario e interactuar con el escenario para recolectar pistas para por ir resolviendo deducciones que parecen sencillas en un comienzo pero se complejizan de una manera que te hacen estrujar el cerebro de manera intensa pero entretenida con una banda sonara de jazz que con cada track encanta y embellece de principio a fin la experiencia del juego. Este juego es SUPER RECOMENDABLE y por lo entretenido que es diría que hasta IMPRECINDIBLE, dura lo suficiente para que uno esté satisfecho con lo que ofrece y quiera más de las aventuras del detective pato, que por suerte se puede ya mismo porque tiene su secuela The Ghost of Glamping ya mismo. cosa que voy a hacer yo también apenas cobre haha.