3/5 ★ – ProjectC's review of Duck Detective: The Secret Salami.

Thoroughly enjoyed my time with the DUCK DETECTIVE! But it was slightly soured with puzzles solving due to certain verbiage and the fact that certain things would be “correct” in context of the story, but wouldn’t be accepted because it was incorrect for that particular point of the story. Almost made it like you were punished for figuring out things earlier than the developers wanted you to. So my advice is to not over complicate things in your head, and give the most simple and direct answer for your de”duck”tions! Another negative was for how the ending played out, the problem I have is a *spoiler* so I won’t mention it. But it seems like an afterthought even though the developers acknowledge it? You’ll know what I mean when you play it. All that being said. The writing was fun and humorous, voice acting was great (didn’t expect it VO at all actually), art direction was fantastic, no bugs or glitches in my playthrough. And even though I had problems with the story, it was still enjoyable at the end of the day. Finally, it took about 2-3hrs to beat. I played it on the Switch and it ran flawlessly. Although looks like the Steam (PC) version got an extra mode and stats? Would’ve liked to see that feature parity on the Switch version.