When you’re dealing with indie games that are a little more bite-sized, lasting just a few hours, it can be a double-edged sword when they’re really well made. On the one hand, it’s nice when games don’t overstay their welcome, but on the other it can sometimes feel like the experience is over just when it was firing on all cylinders. The original Duck Detective had that sort of feel for me, demonstrating a great deal of care went into making it play well, that its puzzles were usually well-crafted, and that its characters and dialogue were consistently amusing. Now we have a follow-up in the form of The Ghost of Glamping, and in general it appropriately feels like a new chapter that leverages what worked before, but doesn’t necessarily change much up either.

While the setting and the supporting characters are new, the central gameplay remains polished and satisfying. You’ll get into the flow of working through each new area, first examining anything of note, then talking to anyone present, and then sort of working through the layers of deduction in order to continue to expose new things to ask people about. At first this style of investigation may throw some people off, as you’ll need to learn that coming back to the same characters multiple times is necessary since you may continue to uncover people or things to ask them about. Thankfully, once you’re on board it actually works well.

Weirdly, by having most of your investigation work in this way, in general that means there’s not quite as much ground to cover as you may typically see in other titles in the genre. Perhaps that may diminish the appeal to some folks, but there’s a quality over quantity calculation here that I do think works well, since most of the dialogue and puzzles you will need to work through are sensible and well designed. I also appreciate the somewhat silly tone of it all, whether it's the fact that your character is simply such a mess, or small touches and bits of humor you’ll encounter along the way.

Much like the first title, this is a pretty compact adventure, likely just taking a small handful of hours to work through. The thing is, for the price, and at this level of quality, I can’t say that it bothers me. It gets you in, entertains and challenges you for a few hours, and then leaves you ready for a new installment, hopefully within a year or so once again. While there’s really nothing I can think of that has changed or improved in the underlying formula, given the fact that the experience is still quite satisfying, I can’t say I have any significant complaints.