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

$456k–$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?

166k to 270k copies, based on its 7k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 166k–270k; $456k–$1.2M after Steam's cut $829k–$1.9M before the cut; from 7k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Duck Detective: The Secret Salami out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Duck Detective: The Secret Salami's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 46k–87k

best case 1.3M (Unheard - Voices of Crime)

Games like Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

The middle of these games

≈ 46k–87k copies

≈ $79k–$388k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

6 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Unheard - Voices of Crime at ≈ 976k–1.6M copies, ≈ $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut. A breakout hit, far above a typical game.

What it took to get here

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

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Detective (7 of 8) and Mystery (7 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Detective + Puzzle, priced around $7. The breakout hits carry RPG + Simulation + Puzzle; a typical game here doesn't.
The era: The games you compared span 2018 to 2025, and 2 of your 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).

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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping 2025	Est. copies ≈ 69k–112k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $189k–$509k after Steam's cut $345k–$784k before the cut	$9.99	3k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	CasualAdventure
Draugen 2019	Est. copies ≈ 62k–100k SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $339k–$911k after Steam's cut $616k–$1.4M before the cut	$19.99	2k reviews Mostly Positive	Story RichMystery
Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County 2022	Est. copies ≈ 52k–84k SteamSpy 20k–50k	Est. revenue $71k–$191k after Steam's cut $129k–$294k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	ComedyFunny
Unheard - Voices of Crime 2019	Est. copies ≈ 976k–1.6M 16x vs typical SteamSpy 1M–2M	Est. revenue $1.9M–$5.0M after Steam's cut $3.4M–$7.8M before the cut	$6.99	34k reviews Overwhelmingly Positive	DetectivePuzzle
Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island 2018	Est. copies ≈ 168k–274k 2.6x vs typical SteamSpy 100k–200k	Est. revenue $231k–$621k after Steam's cut $420k–$956k before the 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–$233k after Steam's cut $158k–$359k before the cut	$4.99	2k reviews Very Positive	ComedyCasual
Play With Me: Escape Room 2018	Est. copies ≈ 16k–27k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $13k–$36k after Steam's cut $24k–$56k before the cut	$2.99	538 reviews Mixed	MysteryAtmospheric
Daemonologie 2024	Est. copies ≈ 18k–29k SteamSpy 50k–100k	Est. revenue $15k–$40k after Steam's cut $27k–$62k before the cut	$2.99	731 reviews Very Positive	HorrorChoices Matter