Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a crime adventure about a down-on-his-luck detective duck. Play involves exploring the crime scenes to find clues and using them to complete statements about what happened. It stands out for the sentence-building deduction that requires lateral thinking and detailed observation.

CONTENT RATING

PLATFORMS

PC

Mac

Nintendo Switch

Xbox One

Xbox Series X|S

POSITIVE GAMEPLAY

Communication

Comprehension

Leadership

Problem Solving

Puzzle Solving

Social Deduction

Experimentation

Logical Processing

PLAY STYLE

Team Up With Game World

Player vs Game World

You play as recently divorced private investigator Eugene McQuacklin. You inspect the evidence and interview suspects to discover their secrets. This slowly builds up a list of words to complete statements about what happened. Finding the right words to fit in the right place needs lateral thinking and comprehension to take account of all the other evidence.

The result is a game that feels like an Agatha Christie novel but without the usual daunting complexity. The plug-and-play solutions make it approachable for anyone. Without taking itself too seriously, it's a storytime mystery complete with a pompous detective, mismatched characters, and cramped environments.

GAMEPLAY TRAILER

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Skill level age

Suggested by Family Gaming Database

9+

You need to have good observational skills and make leaps of intuition for clues. Trial and error can also help you progress as later in the game some solutions require guesswork as well as logic.