Escape from Duckov: The Quirky New Looter-Shooter with Ducks – Release and First Look
Forget zombies, forget soldiers — in the new Escape from Duckov, ducks fight for survival. The game launches today, October 16, 2025, around 9:00 AM CEST and brings a fresh twist to the survival genre.
Escape from Duckov is a single-player top-down shooter with extraction gameplay and base-building elements, all set in a ruthless, danger-filled world. Today, we’ll talk about what makes this game stand out and why it’s far more than just a funny gimmick.
Welcome to Duckov: Setting, Story, and Gameplay
In Escape from Duckov, you wake up as a duck with no backstory. You have a safe base, but beyond its walls lies a highly dangerous world you must explore cautiously. The city is full of rival birds you’ll need to fight to loot valuable gear and stay alive. The game is a mix of cute visuals and brutal survival atmosphere — because if you die, you lose everything you carried.
Your goal is to gather resources, scout hostile zones, secure loot, and ultimately extract alive. Many might assume, because of games like Escape from Tarkov, that this is a multiplayer title — but it’s not. It’s a 100% single-player experience with a large campaign and scaling difficulty. Gear you find can be brought into your next run, but once you die, it’s gone. Maps feature multiple zones with different difficulty levels, weather, and loot quality.
50 Weapons, Mods & a Home: The Progression System
Escape from Duckov features over 50 different weapons — from makeshift melee tools like a simple stick to high-tech rifles. You can customize your weapons with various parts, attachments, and upgrades to suit your playstyle or follow the meta.
Once you’ve extracted, you return to your base, which you can expand with workshops, storage, and training rooms. This adds long-term progression and goals to work toward. Duckov also includes a perk system to further improve your duck — whether in stealth, looting, or shooting. But the most important aspects are resource management and the tough decision of what to bring into your next mission.
You’ll also encounter a variety of NPCs who offer missions to advance the story. Some side quests are more mundane, like delivering medicine to a hospital, but they still enrich the world. According to the developers, the game offers over 50 hours of content per playthrough — depending on your approach. Whether you play cautiously or rush ahead (which might get you killed), the pace is up to you.
From Demo to Hype: Reactions and Expectations
In summer 2025, a public demo was released, and over 200,000 players on Steam tried Duckov — making it one of the top 3 most played demos ever. The press praised the concept. Players missed a multiplayer mode, and some found the demo too difficult. However, this should be balanced for today’s launch. The game has strong potential for a successful release.
Conclusion: The Ruthless Fight for Survival in Escape from Duckov Begins Today
Escape from Duckov launches today, October 16, 2025, proving that a fresh survival concept doesn’t need soldiers, zombies, or multiplayer. Here, you fight alone as a duck for survival, collect loot, upgrade your base, and dive deeper into a world full of rivals and risks.
With over 50 weapons, deep progression and base-building systems, a campaign-driven story, and over 50 hours of playtime, Duckov offers not only quirky humor but also surprising depth and replayability. What started as a funny idea has turned into a serious single-player survival shooter that reimagines the genre with duck-fueled madness. Whether you loot carefully or charge headfirst into chaos, one thing is certain: in Duckov, only those who think smart, plan strategically, and don’t give up too soon will survive.
Hey, I’m Kilian, but online you’ll probably know me as “Tux1243.” I've been part of the team for almost two years now, always trying to keep you in the loop with the latest and coolest gaming news. I also have a huge passion for doing deep dives and detailed analyses of entire game series and franchises. I love getting to the bottom of things and exploring the little details and backstories that make game worlds so fascinating.
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