Indie game studio Happy Broccoli Games (Kraken Academy)’s latest game, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami is getting a 10-minute gameplay trailer and press demo! Releasing in early 2024 for PC, this short mystery is full of quirky characters, chill gameplay and curious investigation. It will be part of the February 2024 Steam Next Fest running from February 5th to the 12th.
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About the game
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, in a narrative mystery adventure where nothing is quite as it seems.
SOLVING CRIME IS NO WALK IN THE POND.
Aggretsuko meets Return of the Obra Dinn in Duck Detective, a cozy mystery game about a down-on-his-luck duck searching for answers in a sinister sausage-based conspiracy.
THIS MIGHT RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS.
Join the Duck Detective on his latest, greatest case:
Inspect and interview suspects to learn their hidden secrets, then use the information you’ve gathered (plus your own de-duck-tive reasoning) to locate the suspect and bust the case wide open!
Features:
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2-3 hours long!
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Interview suspects, fill in the blanks and crack the case!
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Throw bread to the fine beak of lady justice!
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Judge everyone on first impressions, just by looking at them really, really hard! Get them to admit things by staring! Do ducks blink? You don’t.
About the studio
Happy Broccoli Games is a Berlin-based indie studio that focuses on fresh character-focused games. Their debut Kraken Academy was released to critical praise and won the renowned German Computer Game Award 2022 for best Game Design and sees you save the world on your first day of school with the help of a magical kraken. Currently the team is working on their next titles: the quirky adventure Duck Detective: The Secret Salami! and the punchy action RPG Odyssey Island.