It’s a charming little story with amazing voicework and a unique cut-out artstyle. The deduction methods are nothing new, but the characterization is well done considering the length of the game.

You are the Duck Detective. You’re a recently divorced, impoverished detective just trying to get by. A job rings your phone and you answer the call to a remote bus station. It starts as a mystery about who stole whose lunch and goes off the rails into a larger conspiracy that I did not see coming. The dialogue is all fully voiced and reminds me of old point-and-click adventures in that regard as well as how the story progresses. You have to find all the clues to solve each scenario and arrange them in the way needed to uncover what’s going on. Simply interact with each object and character to fill your word bank and use the information you gathered to solve the scenario to unlock the next. It’s a simple loop and I scratched my head at quite a few of them. I feel like some were a bit out there in what was needed to progress and there were a lot of misleading fill-in-the-blank paragraphs. Though there was only one correct answer for each section, I found myself asking aloud “what are they asking for” multiple times. I feel like these could have been written a bit better and the use of “his/ her” instead of “their” is a minor gripe I have with it as well (as an English major it bothered me okay).

Interacting with the different characters left me wanting more however. They are all charming in their own ways and some of the details the devs included didn’t factor into the game at all. It made the characters feel so much more real because of that. I enjoyed hanging out with them and only wish there were more mysteries to work through with the detective.

All in all, it was a cute, little game. It was very simplistic in its execution, but the charm of the experience is one that I definitely would like to experience more of. I would recommend it as a light puzzle game to chill out with. I hope these devs get to make more games like this.