Duck Game

I'm not going to comment on the game itself. Its fine. If you like this style of game, you will enjoy it. Its not a bad game. However, I would really caution you about letting your friends convince you to buy it if they've played a lot of it. I genuinely have not had a worse experience in a video game than trying to learn how to play this game with friends who are already good. Maybe that says more about my choice of friends than anything else, but Steam asked me to give a review about it and I want to. Genuinely a bottom 3 of all time experience is trying to play this game with friends, and having no choice but to either cower in fear in the corner and hope no one notices you are alive, or to be instantly killed round after round for 45 minutes with no opportunity to play. Is it a skill issue on my part? 100%. Is this not a critique of the game itself, but rather my experience playing with my friends? 100%. Do I recommend this game? Absolutely not. I can not think of a worse punishment than everyone else in a Discord VC getting excited about playing Duck Game, and not wanting to be the guy that ruins it for everyone else by saying no so you just say "sure, I could play a few rounds" and immediately grab your phone off your bed and open up Instagram knowing you are going to spend the vast majority of the evening scrolling on Reels, with the occasional 4 second break of starting a new round and immediately getting turned into a fine paste by some guy on the other side of the map, to which he says "oh didn't you know, the "Insta-Brain-Destroying Gun" can shoot through walls, homes onto your left testicle, and the bullets phase into a pocket dimension so its impossible to block or even know you are going to be killed because if you realize you are going to die, the bullets go back in time and kill your parents so you were never even born. But good luck next round." It has a very similar feeling to playing Smash Bros with someone who has spent hundreds of hours learning every match up and every combo, and you've only every played Little Mac, and know how to punch. The game itself can be fantastic, but it doesn't matter because you end up losing so quickly that you never get a chance to actually learn how to play the game well enough to hold your own. The only option is basically to accept that you are going to have the play the game on your own, which for me entirely defeats the purpose of a multiplayer fighting game like this. Its fun when everyone else is around the same skill level as you. But when your friends have been playing for years, trying to play ends up feeling like getting your throat kicked in by a pregnant cow. Its just not a good experience for for anyone besides the cow. I hate this game. Its become a bit of a meme within my friend group at this point. People will suggest Duck Game, I will hate the feeling of not letting everyone else play the game they want, and someone will make a comment along the lines of "You just hate having fun and aren't willing to learn how the game works and improve." Please tell me Jake, at what point in my 0.86 seconds this round should I have learned something? Oh yeah, that's right, you killed me before I even had a chance to figure out where the weapons on this map were, because you memorized every map and know where every weapon spawns. Maybe there is a world where my experience with Duck Game could have been positive. Unfortunately, the experience has been ruined by the constant misery that is playing with my friends. As someone who is bad at this game, my only options are: 1. Immediately die. 2. Hide in a corner, and then die at the end. 3. Hide in a corner, and the last guy accidentally dies. 4. Let everyone else mess with you like a Lion playing with a baby Gazelle right before demolishing its skull. 5. Ask your friends to essentially lobotomize themselves while playing with you. 6. Recognize that there is nothing you can do, and kill yourself every round to deny the satisfaction to anyone else. Duck Game remains the only game I have ever had removed from my account. Not refunded. Removed without a refund. That's how much I hate this game. Take all of this with a grain of salt, but if you think for even a moment you might have a similar friend group situation to me, avoid this game at all costs. Say no, sell your PC, declare bankruptcy. Whatever you have to do to have a good excuse to say "ah shucks man, sorry. I can't buy that game." I have become trapped in a recurring social ritual where my "friends" repeatedly use me like a Puer Delicatus and insist this is entertainment. Please.