[STEAM] Ducks with guns are taking over Steam, and not even Battlefield 6 can stand up to them

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With how the state of the gaming industry is nowadays, nothing comes as a surprise. All sorts of titles have risen through the ranks and conquered the market, but if you were to tell me a game about ducks with guns beating AAA behemoths, I'd never believe you.

But that is exactly what has happened. Escape from Duckov, a strange extraction shooter that puts you in control of a duck in what seems a post-apocalyptic, heavily-militarized world, has smashed through Steam's concurrent player charts and even managed to beat Battlefield 6. The title peaked at over 260,000 players (

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), briefly overtaking EA's blockbuster to become the third-most popular shooter on the platform, just slightly behind PUBG, which is free-to-play.

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The weirdest game ever. Screenshot by Destructoid And yes, Duckov is a paid title, which only adds to the layers of mystery as to how this game managed to become so popular. However, it is a big thing in China at the moment, which could be contributing to the game's sudden and sharp rise, as well as its huge dips the closer we are to ******** evening hours. That's just a theory, but a probable one.

Even so, Escape from Duckov came out of nowhere, catching us all by surprise with its super weird style.

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, praising the game for being unique, but criticizing its many drawbacks, not least because we couldn't understand who the audience for such a thing might be. Many people, it'd turn out, but I still have no clue as to why you'd be paying to play this instead of a proper extraction shooter.

Games really do work in mysterious ways.

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