Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
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This 2024 adventure game, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami, features point-and-click gameplay and has garnered 6,505 Steam reviews with 95% positive sentiment. Developed and published by happy-broccoli-games, it offers a mystery narrative.
Overview
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is a 2024 Adventure game developed by Happy Broccoli Games and published by Happy Broccoli Games. On Steam it has gathered 6,070 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Happy Broccoli Games with publisher Happy Broccoli Games is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 237,000 to 552,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
6,070
Positive
95%
Steam appid
2637990
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0237K to 552K
units (median: 395K)
≈ $1.4M to $3.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2024 | 0 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| genre_Adventure | +10 |
| final NB | 65 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Duck Detective: The Secret Salami at roughly 237,000 to 552,000 copies, with a median around 395,000, derived from its 6,070 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $2.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
51 observed days · window low $6.49Across 51 observed UTC days from 2026-06-01 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $6.49 to $9.99. The tracked-window low was $6.49 on 2026-06-01.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Duck Detective: The Secret Salami sold?
- indielist estimates Duck Detective: The Secret Salami has sold between 236,730 and 552,370 units (median 394,550), derived from its 6,070 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Duck Detective: The Secret Salami?
- Duck Detective: The Secret Salami was developed by Happy Broccoli Games and published by Happy Broccoli Games.
- Who published Duck Detective: The Secret Salami?
- Duck Detective: The Secret Salami was published by Happy Broccoli Games, developed by Happy Broccoli Games. See Happy Broccoli Games's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Duck Detective: The Secret Salami released?
- Duck Detective: The Secret Salami was released in 2024.
- How many reviews does Duck Detective: The Secret Salami have on Steam?
- Duck Detective: The Secret Salami has 6,070 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
- Is Duck Detective: The Secret Salami worth playing?
- Steam players rate Duck Detective: The Secret Salami 95% positive across 6,070 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Duck Detective: The Secret Salami can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as The Roottrees are Dead, Tangle Tower, Donut County, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Happy Broccoli Games's other releases and Happy Broccoli Games's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Duck Detective: The Secret Salami sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Duck Detective: The Secret Salami page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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- T
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- G
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