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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

Happy Broccoli Games · 2024-05-23

SteamGOGPlayStation StoreMicrosoft Store

AdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 23, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), May 23, 2024 (Mac), May 23, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 23, 2024 (Xbox One), May 23, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), May 22, 2025 (PlayStation 5)

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! This is a short but twisty detective case.

8
playing now
95%
positive of 6.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (22 ratings)
2h
to beat · completionist 2h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

8 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a 2024 adventure game developed and published by Berlin-based Happy Broccoli Games. It is a comedic detective story where players control a duck detective, Eugene McQuacklin, and investigate a case of stolen salami in the office of a branch of a bus company. Players investigate the scene to find clues and receive words. These words are used to make "deducktions": phrasal templates where words are inserted into Eugene's notebook. It released for Linux, macOS, Windows, Nintendo Switch and Xbox consoles on May 23, 2024, for iOS and Android in collaboration with Snapbreak on April 9, 2025, and for the PlayStation 5 on May 22, 2025.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 8 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 698 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~87/week).
  • · Review velocity down 42% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 11% of 11,362 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 134k–301k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 6,696 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$7.99-20%
lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.99-20%
Microsoft Store$9.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.49 at Steam (2026-05-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 38 of 59 observed days · $1.50 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20242026Week of 2024-05-01: 1,177 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 958 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 423 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 215 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 153 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 144 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 233 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 244 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 161 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 29 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1642026-08-11 20:00 — 9 players2026-08-12 11:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 03:00 — 5 players2026-08-13 19:00 — 7 players2026-08-14 11:00 — 6 players2026-08-15 03:00 — 7 players2026-08-15 18:00 — 5 players2026-08-16 10:00 — 12 players2026-08-17 02:00 — 8 players2026-08-17 18:00 — 8 players2026-08-18 10:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 02:00 — 13 players2026-08-19 17:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 09:00 — 6 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 7 players2026-08-21 17:00 — 10 players2026-08-22 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-23 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-24 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-25 00:00 — 9 players2026-08-25 15:00 — 7 players2026-08-26 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-27 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 12 players2026-08-28 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 21:00 — 7 players2026-08-29 12:00 — 8 players2026-08-30 04:00 — 8 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$6.492024-05-232026-08-302024-05-23 — best price $8.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-09-17 — best price $8.492024-10-08 — best price $9.992024-10-28 — best price $8.492024-11-14 — best price $8.492024-11-27 — best price $8.492024-12-19 — best price $7.992025-01-09 — best price $7.992025-02-05 — best price $9.992025-02-24 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $7.492025-04-03 — best price $9.992025-04-24 — best price $7.992025-05-22 — best price $6.992025-06-04 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $6.992025-07-24 — best price $7.492025-08-15 — best price $7.492025-09-19 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $7.492025-10-08 — best price $9.992025-11-05 — best price $9.992025-11-25 — best price $8.492025-12-18 — best price $6.992026-01-12 — best price $6.992026-01-23 — best price $7.992026-02-28 — best price $9.992026-03-13 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-04-17 — best price $7.992026-05-21 — best price $9.992026-06-04 — best price $9.992026-06-17 — best price $7.492026-07-15 — best price $7.492026-07-24 — best price $7.492026-08-12 — best price $9.992026-08-27 — best price $7.992026-08-30 — best price $7.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

161282026-05-29 — 69 pageviews2026-06-01 — 73 pageviews2026-06-04 — 71 pageviews2026-06-07 — 123 pageviews2026-06-10 — 79 pageviews2026-06-13 — 69 pageviews2026-06-16 — 48 pageviews2026-06-19 — 43 pageviews2026-06-22 — 51 pageviews2026-06-25 — 44 pageviews2026-06-28 — 74 pageviews2026-07-01 — 66 pageviews2026-07-04 — 55 pageviews2026-07-07 — 97 pageviews2026-07-10 — 33 pageviews2026-07-13 — 48 pageviews2026-07-16 — 46 pageviews2026-07-19 — 59 pageviews2026-07-22 — 88 pageviews2026-07-25 — 68 pageviews2026-07-28 — 67 pageviews2026-07-31 — 38 pageviews2026-08-03 — 67 pageviews2026-08-06 — 63 pageviews2026-08-09 — 38 pageviews2026-08-12 — 43 pageviews2026-08-15 — 45 pageviews2026-08-18 — 48 pageviews2026-08-21 — 42 pageviews2026-08-24 — 54 pageviews2026-08-26 — 46 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
97%
earned "Early Bird"
88.2%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportCamera ComfortColor AlternativesCustom Volume ControlsAdjustable DifficultyKeyboard Only OptionMouse Only OptionPlayable without Timed Input1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, German, Korean

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3,43769%7
PS5 (PlayStation)37491%12
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)25383%10
Switch (Nintendo)970%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2.5DCuteNoirIndieShortCasualPuzzleMysteryAdventureDetective

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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