Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open…
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is an adventure developed by Happy Broccoli Games, released 23 May 2024 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.
What Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is an adventure game developed by Happy Broccoli Games and released in 2024. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a city where everyone is an animal, down-on-his-luck detective Eugene McQuacklin, a recently divorced duck with a weakness for white bread, is hired to crack a peculiar case. Someone at a branch of the BearBus company has been stealing a coworker's lunch, and the elusive culprit has become known as the Salami Bandit. As Eugene questions the office's quirky employees and pokes through the scene with his magnifying glass, the petty theft begins to smell of something far bigger. Piecing together clues into careful "deducktions," the duck detective works to expose the truth behind the missing salami and the secrets hidden in the workplace.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are mystery and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 7 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support., 1 GB RAM and DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami launched on 23 May 2024, within three weeks of Hellblade II: Senua's Saga, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nine Sols and Animal Well. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Hellblade II: Senua's Saga, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nine Sols, Animal Well.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Duck Detective: The Secret Salami yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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