Unrelaxing Quacks

Fun little bullet heaven/survivors-like game. Not the most polished in the genre but it has some unique mechanics, like recovering corpses and being able to use their builds in future runs (for a price). I found out about the game from the dev's blog post about game dev in Rust. It's a good read if you're into technical stuff: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/ Notes: - Guns feel and sound good. - Lots of action on screen. The corruption mechanic was a nice surprise. - Leaving powerups on the ground for later and then chaining them together is cool. The invincibility effect is hard to see though. - A lot of stats and numbers are hidden from the player (e.g. handgun damage up, attack speed up, health regeneration, berserk on max health). There's no list of stats on the pause menu or for items/upgrades. - Some upgrades seem underwhelming (e.g. you can use the boat for free, dash upgrades when you don't have the dash ability, there's an upgrade that increases the timer and an upgrade that decreases the timer) - The blood splatters and corpses are nice, but I feel like there could be a stronger effect on the projectile hitting the enemy. - The damage numbers (along with a lot of other UI elements) don't scale with higher resolutions and are hard to see. - I couldn't figure out how to dash for a while (right click). - No controller support and there doesn't seem to be input remapping. - Music: There's one looping track. I don't mind because I usually mute the music and listen to something else while playing these kinds of games. - Movement: The player can get stuck on objects, i.e. you're moving diagonally into a wall but your entire movement gets cancelled instead of just the part going into the wall. - Powerups and events can spawn in the water and you can't get to them. So can enemy drops but you can use the magnet to get them. - Money is a little weird. There aren't a lot of opportunities to spend money and the primary use late game seems to be the money shield item.

Can't navigate on menus with controller (rog ally). May be decent for it's price if fixed.

Still not fixed on steam deck. Reported the issue back when the game released, the dev confirmed they have been able to reproduce the issue on a steam deck oled, and a fix is coming. Nothing have happened since then. Shame, it would have been a nice showcase for games made in rust.

Do you like Ducks? And Guns? Fun game, and the dev is very responsive on discord to bug reports and feedback.They fixed a crash i reported over a weekend in just a couple of days!

Fun game! The couple times I ascended the power curve it felt really good. Some notes: - I haven't figured out what the timer is or why I would want it to go up or down - Items get hidden behind trees and you can't tell what they are before picking them up - I'm a duck, why can't I swim? - Can't adjust the volume in-game, had to do it in OS audio settings

It's nice. It works nicely on steam deck, though at first on tutorial it seems completely broken - you just have to read. This is my first survivors game, probably not my type though.

I was playing this game and lost track of time. (I had the playtest version) The dev team is extremely responsive, everything was fixed as soon as mentioned, and even features were proposed to us while playing. I think this is perfect if you wanna "waste" time doing something mindlessly. Overall: 7.2/10

Fun game and unassuming game. Can get addictive quite fast. Recommended if you like indie games and auto-shooters.

Fun survivorlike, still figuring out how all the mechanics work. I do wish the game was tutorialized a bit better, but given how attentive the devs have been with technical fixes, I see it getting ironed out with time. Definitely worth the price if your looking to take a break from your current survivor obsession.

Survivor sympa, rapidement addictif comme souvent avec ce genre de jeux. Pas mal de mécanisme a comprendre et la difficulté augmente assez rapidement. L'interface est un peu brouillonne et le jeu demanderai encore un peu de polish.