Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
Worth it · Narrative · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $5.38.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $4.76/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX10, DX11, DX12 capable., 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $6.49. That was May 2026. 20 discounts in the 2 years on record. They run about 25 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. No sale on record has reached $5.38, the price it would take to be a BANGER.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 2 percent on value. It is pricier than 60 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 97 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pentiment ($19.99, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats The Roottrees are Dead ($19.99, scores 71).
Of the 628 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written May 2024 to August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,675 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 993 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 1,567 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 26 percent of everything written about it.
At 2.1 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
97% start to 46% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
About 41 players at once, as of Sep 24.
Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A charming and quirky adventure game that sees us control the titular Duck Detective as he investigates a simple case that spirals into a full-blown conspiracy. Part of this game's appeal lies in its use of the typical trappings of detective fiction - the black-and-white shots as you enter locations, the gruff affectation for the Detective's voice acting, even the jaded recaps he gives throughout the game ...
Love this game. Has so much personality packed into it. Its one of those fun games that are fun for both kids and adults.
Its really cute and fun, but for the price I feel it should've had a little more content. If you buy it, I would recommend buying it on sale
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami scores 74/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2637990/duck-detective-the-secret-salamiReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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