Escape from Duckov, the PVE top down looter shooter set in a bizarre duck run world, officially launched October 16, 2025 and hit 13,000 concurrent players, proving that the looter shooter genre is far from dead, especially when it involves base building birds.
Developed by Team Soda and published by bilibili, Duckov is tagged as a looter shooter, but it also leans into adventure, indie, and RPG mechanics.
Quacking Good Launch Numbers and Early Reception
That 13,000 number turned out to be just the warmup. SteamDB shows the game peaked at 34,958 concurrent players on launch day. Community feedback looks strong, with a “Very Positive” user rating. SteamDB gives it an 86.82% positive score, based on 594 positive reviews out of 639 total. That’s around 93% approval.
The setup is simple. You wake up in the world of Duckov as an Average Duck with one basic gun and nothing else. You scavenge, fight, loot, and hopefully extract before everything goes south.
Getting to the Loot (And Surviving the Extract)
Duckov is a PVE game with base building, crafting, and extraction. You roam the maps looking for supplies: medicine, gear, rare collectibles. Miss your extract window and it all goes poof. That risk and reward cycle is what makes the genre tick.
The game includes five different maps. Loot locations, enemy spawns, and even weather conditions shift from run to run. No two expeditions are the same, and that gives the game real legs.
Weapon variety is deep for a top down shooter. You can equip over 50 weapons, ranging from actual firearms to a wooden stick. There’s a full weapon mod system, and the freedom is impressive. Skill trees let you boost ranged, melee, or general survival traits. Nothing too complicated, but enough to give your build a personal touch.
Content Beyond the Quests
If you’re worried about replay value, don’t be. The developers say there’s over 50 hours of content in the base game alone. You’ve got NPCs to meet, quests to complete, and a mystery to unravel about what the duck happened to this world. But the real long tail comes from mod support.
So if you want a looter shooter that plays it weird but keeps the fundamentals solid, this one’s worth a look.