Idle games have been one of the most surprising breakout niches in recent years, but the genre’s name seems to be a misnomer. Initially, these games are usually not idle. Click frantically until you reach a point where the game starts automatically. now, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator very teeth Idle Game: Do nothing at all and watch the plastic ducks floating in the pool. He is one of the highest rated games on Steam.
as originally reported by excellence GameDiscoverCo Newsletter, PPDSIt’s not a sudden surge in popularity on Steam. More rationally, it’s been a series of spikes since its initial release in July of this year. Since then, the largely non-interactive game has received over 3,500 “overwhelmingly positive” reviews on Steam, and currently holds an unprecedented 98% positive rating. why? Hmm…
On one level, this is nothing more than watching rubber ducks float in a rendered backyard pool. At the beginning she has one yellow duck, but when the on-screen duck meter is full, new ducks will fall from the sky. These have their own unique designs, perhaps wearing headbands or top hats and pipes, or cleverly disguised as dusted donuts.
Your controls are limited to jerky camera movements around the selected duck. The scenery gently bobs and bobs with the water, while the quiet background noise of birds chirping and wind blowing evokes the mundane. (Alternatively, you can turn on terrible music, which you shouldn’t do.)
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The problem is, far more effort has been put into it than it deserves, and it’s been running for hours on my desktop as much as I was ready to roll my eyes and switch off. At night, the two-story pool lights up, transforming the soundtrack of nature into cicadas. The ocean spreads out beyond the pool, and you might even see a pod of dolphins swimming by. Oh, and of course there’s also DLC that adds patterns to the ever-growing number of ducks.
It’s all made by Italian developer Tunnel Vision Studio as a silly break from developing a proper game, an open-world survival simulation. star sandAs part of an in-studio game jam, GameDiscoverCo Reports that they did “zero marketing”.A few weeks ago, it was noticed by several large Twitter accounts in Japan and South Korea. YouTube account with 2.75 million subscribers RTGameit continues to attract people’s attention and imagination.
The fact that it only costs $2 seems to be a big part of the review’s success. It’s hard to begrudge something so sweet and ridiculous for being so cheap, and as much as I want to be cynical, I can’t stop checking in to see which ducks have arrived, and the tiny I was inexplicably excited when the plane took off. Also, one time her one of my ducks escaped the head propeller and floated into the ocean.
The duck actually behaves differently, even though it’s supposed to move slightly differently. By simply not giving the player almost every aspect of the game, I think it makes the little things that are left feel more important.Either way, I can’t dispute the reviews it’s getting. half life 2 Also Stardew Valley.
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