Indie extraction shooter and Escape from Tarkov spoof Escape from Duckov has managed to sell a pretty impressive number of copies since launching on Thursday, developer Team Soda and publisher bilibili have announced.
According to a Steam post, Escape from Duckov sales have hit 500,000 since last week’s release, an achievement Team Soda says has its developers “quacking with joy and flapping [their] wings in excitement”.
The studio promises that every subsequent update for Duckov will “live up to your expectations” and reminds everyone who hasn’t bought the game yet that it’s still available at a 12% discount, so if you are at all interested in Escape from Duckov, now’s the time to pick it up.
Duckov‘s achievement puts it on par with “anxiety horror” game No, I’m Not a Human and cozy RPG Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma in the sales stakes, although it’s a very different prospect to either of those games.
It’s not a bad figure at all for a game that almost certainly started out as a joke based on its title, so kudos to Team Soda and bilibili for seeing this one through. I’d say they deserve to reap the benefits, especially if the game’s Overwhelmingly Positive Steam rating is anything to go by.
If you’re not familiar with Escape from Duckov, it’s a top-down extraction shooter openly inspired by Battlestate’s popular Escape from Tarkov, although it’s obviously a good deal less realistic than that game.
Although Duckov bases its core gameplay loop, inventory management system, and general atmosphere on Tarkov, it’s not a multiplayer game; this is a strictly single-player PvE affair, so if you’re put off from Tarkov by other players (and its lack of ducks), this one’s for you.
You can grab Escape from Duckov right now on PC via Steam if you’re interested in checking it out. Stay tuned for more.
