Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
BANGER · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $0.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Jul 2022.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $0.19/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is 50% off today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Typical seasonal cut
- 30% ($1.39)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($0.99)
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680, 502 MB of storage. Windows only.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
February 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 20 percent off as a rule. There have been 41 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today's $0.99 at 50 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is cheaper than 89 percent of its genre, and the best reviewed. Among the games closest to it, Alchemy Garden ($6.99, scores 25) and Seal World ($4.99, scores 87) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $11.10. It costs $0.99.
This site sampled 734 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 34 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 94 percent of the 3,928 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 5.2 hours; clearing it takes 26, which is 5.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
83% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
103 players online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 02:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
You know that excellent pilot episode of The Sopranos in which the family pool is home to a bunch of ducks? In this game, one special duck has a hat that makes her „fly". Logically, I thought there must be an invisible wall in the game that doesn't allow clipping and keeps ducks contained to the area. But it doesn't, and I've watched that duck ascend and leave the Infinity Pool. The duck landed in the ocean nearby...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1999360/placid-plastic-duck-simulatorReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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