Bouncing Duck Simulator is a quirky little physics game that tasks you with bouncing a rubber duck one million times. You find yourself in a completely white and sealed off room with only a single yellow duck to keep you company. As you toss it up at the ceiling, around walls, and off the floor, you’ll notice a monitor keeping track of every one of its bounces. After enough time spent playing with your duck and possibly annoying the heck out of your roommates with its squeaking, a button on the wall will suddenly light up green. Clicking on it will either produce a new duck to play with or a battery you can use to morph your existing one into something else.
There are a ton of ducks to discover, each having their own unique quirks to them such as defying gravity with its ceaseless bouncing or being heavy enough to break objects such as the lights. Some ducks can even produce brand new effects when introduced into one another, like throwing a blue duck into a pink one will result in a brand new baby duckling bouncing its way into existence. Experimentation is the name of the game here; this title is packed with a ton of little secrets to uncover as you make your way to your millionth bounce. There is even an in-game Duckedex which keeps track of and helps you catalog all of the ducks you have discovered.
Pretty soon you’ll have a small army of varied toy ducks flying throughout the room, and as you may imagine, it gets very noisy. The selling point of the game that states “Various duck sounds that will haunt you for days (months), even during your sleep” wasn’t included for nothing. By the end of the hour or so it takes to reach one million bounces, you’ll probably twitch if someone’s shoes so much as squeaks while walking next to you. Self-inflicted trauma aside, the fun doesn’t end once you reach that magic number. There are three endings in total to discover, each requiring a variety of methods to gain such as finding some way to get the monitor to start subtracting the number of bounces you are getting.
There is no voice acting or dialogue to be found, and the music is equally as barren. You will hear a small tune when you turn on your jukebox and when you upgrade a specific duck enough, but for the most part, there is complete silence minus the maddening squeaks of countless toy ducks. There can really be quite a bit of them at once which may prove problematic for those with aging computers since there are no graphics options to speak of. Ultimately, Bouncing Duck Simulator lives up to its name and packs in a decent amount of content, however short-lived it may be. It is a straightforward and wholesome game that would make for a pleasant experience for the younger audience or just to kill some time while making an enemy out of everyone around you if using speakers, one squeak at a time.
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