Duck Souls
BANGER · Action · 2018
The verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $1.99.
- Length
- 1.7h 2.1h to 100%
- Value
- $1.17/hr
- Reviews
- 98% of 345 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Duck Souls is a fast-paced, action platformer about a little duck with an incredible skill to dash and a mission: find all the lost eggs in order to save his species.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB VRAM, 205 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
40 discounts in the 8 years on record, a median of 40 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 85 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Kaze and the Wild Masks ($9.99, scores 74) and Dark Devotion ($19.99, scores 35), are both worse buys on this math.
The math says it holds its tier up to $4.31.
More about Duck Souls
Of the 226 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, none come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 97 percent of the 213 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 69 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
92% start to 30% 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
What players say
Duck Souls is a compact but energetic precision platformer that blends cute pixel art with demanding, reflex-driven gameplay. You play as a determined little duck on a mission to recover scattered eggs, a simple premise that serves mainly as a backdrop for a gauntlet of tightly designed stages. The game's world is bright and playful, but the levels themselves are filled with lethal hazards-spikes, sawblades...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Duck Souls scores 91/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/917290/duck-soulsReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.