Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

作为一个从未正儿八经涉猎过推理游戏的菜鸡，选择一部相对轻松的作品作为入门，无疑是明智之举。而这部游戏，也恰如其分地，为我奉上了一段颇为舒心的旅程。 不过，贯穿始终，我总有一种被宠坏了的感觉——我承认这或许是我骨子里那受难之魂又在作妖，但本作对玩家的友好程度，确实是公认的。 首先是游戏对推理失误的容错度高得惊人。暂且不提简单模式下错误多次便会自动弹出提示，即便是在无提示的“侦探模式”中，系统也赫然标注着你填错的空格是三个以上，还是两个以下。 换言之，哪怕我尚未拼凑出完整的线索链，只要善用这个计数机制，便可以刻意控制错误答案的数量，随后用穷举法填出那些需要盲猜的空格。 当然，这终究是玩家自主选择的规避正常解法的“捷径”，那想难度高点不用这种脏东西老老实实动脑不就行了嘛。 可即便走正道，从线索到结论的逻辑链条，也简单得有些单薄——大部分谜题直白得近乎白给，中间偏难的谜题，光是绕上一个小弯，便已是极限。 至于线索的搜集，流程通常是将周遭一切可互动的事物对话都过个遍，摘取需要填进空格的关键词或直截了当的信息。 游戏固然加入了一些更加隐晦的线索，例如电脑屏幕上的消息、手写的便利贴、以及一个可以观察人物细节的放大镜。不过其仍难以避免玩家凭借头像、笔迹等蛛丝马迹，大致推断出所涉及的人物关系。 游戏也撒下少许误导性的烟雾弹，可惜它们要么毫不相干，被早早剔除，要么离谱至极，根本无人当真。 我心底暗暗期盼，这些看似无用的八卦能被编织成一道跳跃性极强的推理（是的我又犯贱了），但这样似乎就脱离休闲的范畴了。 至于结局处的全篇收束，案件的罪魁祸首，从一开始我就觉得这人有鬼；背后发生的阴谋，游戏中期已经能拼凑出来。反倒是那些从犯之中，有一人给了我一份意外之喜，即那种“当你排除了其他选项之后，剩下的那个即便再不可能，那也是正确答案”的真切侦探推理的味道。 剧情本身也是中规中矩。一个穷困潦倒的侦探，刚历离异之痛，愁云惨淡。为解愁绪，他高价买下几片吐司，却让本就干瘪的钱包雪上加霜。于是，即便是“寻找某人的被盗午餐”这等琐碎委托，他也不得不屈尊接手。然而风平浪静之下暗流涌动，随着一条条线索浮出水面，这位鸭鸭侦探最终揭开的，竟是一桩关于香肠的惊天阴谋！ 平心而论，这段故事既恪守着正统侦探剧的经典配方，又慷慨地撒上了一把无厘头的幽默佐料，博得一笑，足矣。 总而言之，值得推荐。但若你是推理游戏老鸟，这部作品，恐怕只够你塞塞牙缝罢了。 ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------ 美术设计： ☐ 看了想吐 ☐ 同一个妈 ☐ 中规中矩 ☑ 视觉享受 ☐ 美轮美奂 地图/场景设计： ☐ 杂乱无章 ☐ 好歹认路 ☑ 有小巧思 ☐ 虚拟花园 ☐ 钟灵毓秀 游戏性： ☐ 上班牛马 ☐ 普通游戏 ☑ 有精彩处 ☐ 非常优秀 ☐ 年度游戏 解谜难度： ☐ 一目了然 ☑ 稍需思考 ☐ 思维训练 ☐ 绞尽脑汁 ☐ 最强大脑 音乐/音效： ☐ 耳朵流血 ☐ 尚可接受 ☑ 好坏参半 ☐ 天籁之音 ☐ 神游天外 剧情/设定： ☐ 可有可无 ☐ 俗套乏味 ☑ 见仁见智 ☐ 独一无二 ☐ 震撼至极 [h1]总评：A-（瑕不掩瑜）[/h1]

+ excellent voice acting + surprisingly engaging story + intuitive deduction mechanics - some annoying pixel hunting - pretty dang short, even at the price

This was very cute and fun but I did not expect it to be as short as it is at a $10 price point. I recommend but I'd say get it on sale.

[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]

you cannot outdo the doer! super cute paper-style animation that keeps you interested without overstimulation! so many silly duck puns and references! my heart overfloweth with duck-isms and i wouldn't have it any other way.

I was expecting a fun, cute, and funny little mystery, and what I got was a hilarious and very well written (and voice acted) conspiracy! It is so satisfying investigating and piecing together this crazy tale of stolen lunch meat! You can get through it in an afternoon, but that time will just fly by!

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!!