Duck Detective: The Secret Salami — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Korean & Simplified Chinese Languages Added! | 2025-09-21 | Hello detectives,We are proud to share that Duck Detective now officially supports Simplified Chinese and Korean!To celebrate, both games are on their biggest discounts to date, so it's better than ever to quack some mysteries!Translating a mystery full of wordplay is never easy, but we’re thrilled that even more players can now deduckt mysteries in their own language. We also want to give a special thank you to everyone who created early fan translations, your hard work helped pave the way for these official localizations and brought Duck Detective to new audiences from the very beginning. Check out this wonderful fanart created by Victoria |
| Mega Duck Merch! | 2025-07-10 | Hello Detectives, With the help of some friends we are bringing the duck to the physical world. Yep, that’s correct - science said it couldn’t be done but we have created genuine duck detective merch: Socks, a T-shirt, Acrylic Standees, Pin and Stickers! A set of 3 exclusive duck detective sock designs, which can be found here: https://thesockdesigner.com/products/the-duck-detective-socksA super rad, Secret Salami T-Shirt designed the amazing team at the YeteeNeed a cute decoration for your room? The Yetee have designed both Eugene and Freddy acrylic standees.And finally, we are very excited to be able to share the original Duck Detective Pin |
| New Game Out Now + Huge QoL Update | 2025-05-22 | Hello hello! Two big pieces of news: The Ghost of Glamping is out now!! Fedoras at the ready! Polish your magnifying glass! Iron that long, sweeping trench coat! Our new Duck Detective game is out now, a brand new standalone no-murder mystery adventure. With CAMPING! Check out the launch trailer below…! Additionally, we have polished up and fixed Duck Detective: The Secret Salami with a myriad of improvements, these include: Clue spots now turn gray if there is no new information Improved UI Improved performance Video playback improvements Fixed saving issues Fixed end cutscene replay issues On top of this, the game is currently on it's bigge |
| New Game Releases Tomorrow + Daily Deal! | 2025-05-21 | Hello detectives, Some big news! Only 24 hours to go before a brand new Duck Detective case is available! To celebrate, we are doing the deepest ever discount on The Secret Salami: 30% off! We're also only 2 days away from the anniversary of The Secret Salami! A huge thank you to everyone who has played and enjoyed the game. Eugene has really spread his wings and we're grateful to everyone who helped that happen. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2637990/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2714620/ ~Happy Broccoli Team |
| Next Duck Detective game, The Ghost of Glamping is releasing in May! | 2025-04-29 | Hi Everyone! Just swinging around to let you know some AMAZING news - we have a release date for Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping! It’ll be out on May 22nd. Here’s the final trailer before launch..! This is a stand-alone adventure taking place in the same universe as Duck Detective: The Secret Salami. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve a no-murder mystery in a haunted luxury glampsite!! As well as a new setting and fully-voiced cast, the Ghost of Glamping also introduces Freddy as the new partner for the Detective, much to his annoyance. Work together to unravel the truth and nibble on the crumbs of justice! If you haven't w |
| Duck Detective March Update | 2025-03-18 | Hello Detectives, It's been a busy year so far for us, and it's only just beginning! Here's the biggest pieces of duck news: Duck Detective is coming to both Android and iOS on 9th April! You can find it here on iOS and here on Google Play stores. The game is perfect as a handheld experience, and now finally we can show our grandmas what we do for work and they can play! Give it a try or gift it to your own grandma! The Duck Detective sequel, Ghost of Glamping now has a free demo you can try out over here Go give it a go and let us know what you think on the Steam forums :D Finally, we are continuing to bundle with super awesome duck and dete |
| Fowl Play Bundle! | 2025-02-24 | Hello detectives, Another bundle, you say?! Absolutely! Dive into TWO epic mysteries that will be spoken of with reverence for centuries to come: ■ Duck Detective: The Secret Salami ■ Loco Motive What you'll find in both games ■ Im-peck-able voice acting ■ A mysterious crime that must be solved! ■ Adorable creatures helping solve said mysteries ■ Protagonists you're unsure if it's okay to be attracted to ■ Puzzles, jazz and jazzy puzzles! Stay tuned for even more ducktastic news coming soon! ~ the Happy Broccoli Team https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/50687/ |
| Hits You Missed Megabundle | 2025-02-13 | Hello! Duck Detective is partaking in a deeply discounted bundle filled with some phenomenal hit games from 2024! If you haven't tried Duck Detective, or other great narrative hits such as Mouthwashing, 1000xResist and many more, now is your chance to get a complete curated package for a great bargain, 65% discount in total! Check out the sales page here! ~Happy Broccoli Team 🥦 |
| Placid Plastic Duck Detective Bundle! | 2025-01-23 | Hello detectives, What is better than one duck? Two? Three? No! 100 ducks! We're excited to offer you the limited-time opportunity to multiply your ducks with the brand new Placid Duck Detective bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/49672/ So swap the magnifying glass for some sunglasses and enjoy the chill vibes 😎 ~ the Happy Broccoli Team https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/49672/ |
| New Duck Detective game announced!! | 2024-12-10 | Hi investigators :) Big news! Big, exciting news!! We have finally announced the next Duck Detective game. It’s called ‘The Ghost of Glamping’, and it’ll be out next year! When spookiness strikes a luxury campsite, the one and only Duck Detective is summoned to quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve a no-murder mystery in this new standalone instalment of the beloved mystery puzzle series. This is another short fun adventure just like The Secret Salami, but with a new cast and storyline. Also, Eugene McQuacklin is now joined by a partner, much to his annoyance. Will the famed Detective escape the shadows of his past a |
| November Update | 2024-11-29 | Hi there Detectives! We're busy working away, and we have a few things to share: The Duck Detective Plushie is live on YouTooz now. He's up for 3 weeks, get him before Freddy buys them all! : Get him here! Duck Detective is also available as a physical release on Switch!! Included are stickers, standees and a manual with never-before-seen artwork. It's a limited edition run, so only a finite number remain Grab a copy now here We're still making good progress on a mobile version of Duck Detective (and have been silently updating the steam version with many of the improvements). Hopefully soon we will have a date for when you will be able to ta |
| Duck Detective Plushie! | 2024-11-22 | Awesome news! We are so excited to present the happiest version of Duck Detective you will ever see! :duckhearts: Find him on youtooz.com at 3pm EST on November 29th!!! We are doing a giveaway of 3 plushies on our discord server! :ducktoast: Come join us: Happy Broccoli Games Discord |
| September Update | 2024-09-26 | Hi there Detectives! We have so many things to show and so many exciting things in the works right now! Duck Detective is getting a physical release on Switch!! Included are stickers, standees and a manual with never-before-seen artwork. Grab a copy now here We also celebrated Happy Broccoli Games' 5th anniversary with lovely friends and lovely handmade gifts! Thank you all for being so awesome and allowing us to make fantastic games with a fantastic team! Stay tuned for more updates in the future. ~ the Happy Broccoli Team |
| German Language & Workshop Support Update! | 2024-09-22 | Hello detectives, We have two wonderful pieces of news! We have added German language support to Duck Detective, and we have also added Steam Workshop support so new unofficial translations can be added! Localising the game ended up being a lot more work than we initially thought - it's very tricky translating deducktions to new languages. HOWEVER We want to give you all the opportunity to enjoy Duck Detective in more languages so we have an extra surprise! We have added Steam Workshop support to the game so anyone in the community can create translations!! Korean has already been included as a language in the workshop! A big thank you to Ash |
| The DuckSide Detective Bundle! | 2024-07-19 | We have some news, detectives!! The Duck Detective is now available in a bundle with the fantastic Darkside Detective. We're honestly big fans of the game, so we're extremely excited! So what exactly is Darkside Detective? Welcome to Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense, and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, downright dangerous, and often confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Domesticated gremlins, undead mafians, interdimensional trains and other inglorious cases get dumped on their desks as, for better or worse, they are the first and last line of defence aga |
| THE DUCK IS SOARING, THANKS TO YOU! | 2024-05-27 | Hello detectives, It's only been 1 weekend and we have already hit overwhelmingly positive! Thank you all so so much for playing the game, the response has definitely been overwhelming and positive for us too. We really never expected that such a small, silly, adventure would connect with so many people, so we are really grateful to all of you that have given Mr McQuacklin a chance! Right now we're working hard to iron out any of the bugs you've found. We can tell people are excited for future adventures of Eugene, however, we really don't want to count our chickens before they have hatched so we're taking some time now to work out will come |
| Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is out now!!! | 2024-05-23 | TODAY IS THE DAY TODAY TODAY TODAY Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is finally out!!! Oh my gosh. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2637990 We're super excited this day has finally arrived! To know that it’s now out in the world and soon in your hands… we’re so happy and thankful to have gotten here. 😭 Developing a game is always tough, but it was made so much easier by 1) how funny and charming and joyful our game is (or at least we’d like to think so!), and 2) all your incredible support. Thanks so much for the amazing comments on TikTok, Twitter, and everywhere else – it’s meant so much to us. We hope the game gives you a really lovely |
| 2 Days To Release | 2024-05-21 | Hello Detectives, Only 2 days until the Duck Detective waddles into action! It's been a blast getting to work on the game and we're really excited for you all to play! Feel free to join our discord here if you'd like to join us in the final countdown: https://discord.com/invite/kKwXUSq7XV https://store.steampowered.com/app/2637990/ We'll be releasing a brand new trailer on release day, but here is a small teaser to wet your beak: ~ Happy Broccoli Team |
| Duck Detective is part of the 2024 LudoNarraCon! | 2024-05-09 | Hello friends! So excited to reveal that LudoNarraCon this year is actually LuduckNarraCon!! We’re half-kidding: It’s a very ducky LudoNarraCon this year, as Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is taking part! We’re so honoured to be among so many incredible future and past games, celebrating the power of narrative experiences in our medium. We’re very grateful to Fellow Traveller for making this happen every year, and even more grateful that we can join it this year. There’s also a subtle reveal in our !! NEW TRAILER !! that you can watch below. :) If you like the game, please do give it a wishlist and tell your friends. We’ll be back later th |
| LudoNarraCon: Developer Playthrough & Commentary! | 2024-05-09 | Hello detectives, As part of the LudoNarraCon festivities we'll be livestreaming and commentating the game! Come say hi as we exclusively show off some more gameplay beyond what is currently available in the demo ~Happy Broccoli Team |