How much revenue did Duck Detective: The Secret Salami make?

$458k–$1.2M after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Duck Detective: The Secret Salami sell?

Q: How many copies did Duck Detective: The Secret Salami sell?

167k to 271k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 167k–271k; $458k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $832k–$1.9M before Steam's cut; from 7k reviews (Very Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid Duck Detective: The Secret Salami and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Duck Detective: The Secret Salami's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 57k–124k

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

A typical game among these

≈ 57k–124k copies

≈ $106k–$477k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

6 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 981k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 683 reviews in their first month; the range was 89 to 1k.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Detective (7 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 38 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

Similar games

Game	Est. copies	Est. revenue	Price	Reviews	Tags
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping 2025	Est. copies ≈ 70k–113k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $191k–$514k after Steam's cut $347k–$790k before Steam's cut	$9.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualAdventure
Draugen 2019	Est. copies ≈ 62k–101k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $340k–$915k after Steam's cut $619k–$1.4M before Steam's cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Story RichMystery
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County 2022	Est. copies ≈ 52k–85k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $71k–$192k after Steam's cut $130k–$295k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ComedyFunny
Unheard - Voices of Crime 2019	Est. copies ≈ 981k–1.6M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.1M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before Steam's cut	$6.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectivePuzzle
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island 2018	Est. copies ≈ 169k–274k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $232k–$623k after Steam's cut $421k–$958k before Steam's cut	$4.99	6k reviews Very Positive	ComedyShort
Frog Detective 2: The Case of the Invisible Wizard 2019	Est. copies ≈ 63k–103k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $87k–$234k after Steam's cut $158k–$360k before Steam's cut	$4.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ComedyCasual
Play With Me: Escape Room 2018	Est. copies ≈ 16k–27k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $25k–$56k before Steam's cut	$2.99	540 reviews Mixed	MysteryAtmospheric
Daemonologie 2024	Est. copies ≈ 19k–31k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $16k–$42k after Steam's cut $28k–$64k before Steam's cut	$2.99	761 reviews Very Positive	HorrorChoices Matter