Quack some cases with Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

You don’t need to look at screenshots and you could probably pass the trailer by (although you really should watch it!). For the title alone sells Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. 

Available right now as the latest from Happy Broccoli Games (they previously behind the brilliant Kraken Academy) is Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. It waddles onto Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch as you get the opportunity to play as Eugene McQuacklin – the Duck Detective. 

Duck tales

As you may suspect from a game with the title Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, this is a quirky tale in which you life out the live of a down-on-your-luck detective. And yes, you are a duck. From there, it’s all pretty straight – head into the mystery at hand, interrogate the weird and wonderful, ruffle some features and try to find the answers you are looking for. In this case, they sit in a sinister sausage-baed conspiracy. 

Making the most of the information you gather is key to success in Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, as a three hour or so mystery unfolds. 

It’s priced well, at £8.49 from the Xbox Store. And when you consider the key features, that price is all the more appealing. 

Key features

• A 2 to 3 hours-long mystery game!
• Interview suspects, fill in the blanks and crack the case!
• Throw bread to the fine beak of lady justice!
• Fully voiced!
• Judge everyone on first impressions, just by looking at them really, really hard! Get them to admit things by staring! Do ducks blink? You don’t.

Buy now!

You’ll find Duck Detective: The Secret Salami on the Xbox Store, playable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. It’s also got full Xbox Play Anywhere capabilities in place too, so you can take that purchase across to PC should you so wish. 

Alternatively, digital storefronts for Nintendo Switch or PC (Steam or GOG) will offer similar. 

Intrigued? We can’t say that Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is going to be walk in the pond, but it should well appeal to those with investigative traits. Or those who are a duck… 

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami Description

SOLVING CRIME IS NO WALK IN THE POND. Aggretsuko meets Return of the Obra Dinn in Duck Detective, a cozy mystery game about a down-on-his-luck duck searching for answers in a sinister sausage-based conspiracy. THIS MIGHT RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS. Join the Duck Detective on his latest, greatest case: Inspect and interview suspects to learn their hidden secrets, then use the information you’ve gathered (plus your own de-duck-tive reasoning) to locate the suspect and bust the case wide open!