Duck Game
BANGER · Multiplayer · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $12.99.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $3.71/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Pixel Shader 2.0, 154 MB of storage. Windows only.
Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.59. That was March 2020. 52 discounts in the 11 years on record. They run about 50 percent off, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 76 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Broforce ($14.99, scores 93) beats it on value, while it beats Nidhogg ($9.99, scores 76).
82 from critics against 97 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 650 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 87 percent of the 1,801 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 125, 36 times as much.
The drop-off
64% start to 1% 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
112 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
some of my greatest memories were conceived on a couch in the basement playing this game
This is on the podium of video games without debate, I would recommend this to Hellen Keller and she would probably still enjoy it. (No Helen Keller Hate Here). Anne Frank would enjoy playing this in her attic, on mute ofc, but when she gets caught, they might join the game is so good.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Duck Game scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/312530/duck-gameThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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