Games like Duck's Despair
If Duck's Despair is your kind of game, the closest matches are BZZZT, Slime-san: Superslime Edition and Super Magbot — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Duck's Despair: Embark on a brutally hard platforming journey as a desperate Duck who cannot fly. Will you make the pain your friend or give up on your dreams ?
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BZZZT
WHY THIS
Top pick for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
Slime-san: Superslime Edition
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Slime-san was minding his own business when suddenly… A giant worm appeared and gobbled him up! Deep within the worm’s belly, Slime-san has to face a decision: Be digested by the incoming wall of stomach acid... Or jump, slide and slime his way through the worm and back out its mouth!
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
The End Is Nigh
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
I wanna be the Creator
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
这是一款可以自制关卡的IWBTG同人游戏，在里面你可以体验到各种千奇百怪的关卡，同样也可以创作出属于你自己的关卡。
VVVVVV
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?
Downwell
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Duck's Despair fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Duck's Despair at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duck's Despair.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duck's Despair.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duck's Despair.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Duck's Despair.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Duck's Despair on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duck's Despair.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Duck's Despair.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duck's Despair.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Duck's Despair.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duck's Despair.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Duck's Despair.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
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Other recommendable Steam games by Faith G., ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Idle Colony
WHY THIS
Another title from Faith G., the studio behind Duck's Despair. Shares Indie with Duck's Despair.
A condensed incremental experience, where you build a colony to collect and merge bigger and bigger fruits. Combine game-changing technologies and special upgrades to find the best synergies and take your cash flow to another dimension.
Breakthrough
WHY THIS
Another title from Faith G., the studio behind Duck's Despair. Shares Action with Duck's Despair.
Breakthrough is an hardcore roguelike-shooter with high risk/rewards mechanics. Help Clunky see the sunset behind the mountain by fighting tireless monsters. Both balanced and very difficult, Breakthrough will conquer the heart of thoses seeking a great challenge.
Human: Profit
WHY THIS
Another title from Faith G., the studio behind Duck's Despair. Shares Indie with Duck's Despair.
An accurate depiction of our world, baked into a short, classic incremental game. Take over Grandpa's farm, rebuild the town, and do whatever it takes to succeed. Also rabbits.
shatAAAAp!
WHY THIS
Another title from Faith G., the studio behind Duck's Despair. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Exponentially bigger waves of cute animals require increasingly absurd means of destruction. Shoot, burn, electrocute, explode... and make sure no one ever helps you.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
BZZZT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Become a tiny ZX8000 robot and begin your journey through a beautiful, pixel-art world inspired by games iconic to the platformer genre. Follow a cute story, upgrade your skills, beat challenging levels, and compete with other players for the fastest speedrun!
Super Magbot
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
A precise 2D platformer with a twist. NO JUMPING. Master your magnetic powers to beat each level with speed and skill. Enjoy classic 16-bit gaming vibes, tackle challenging achievements and compete for global leaderboard supremacy along the way.
Celeste
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
The End Is Nigh
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
The End Is Nigh is a sprawling adventure platformer where you die a lot, but thats ok because you are probably already dead anyway.
Downwell
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Duck's Despair.
Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.
Frequently asked about Duck's Despair
- How much does Duck's Despair cost?
- Duck's Despair is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Duck's Despair?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Duck's Despair are BZZZT, Slime-san: Superslime Edition, Super Magbot.
- Who developed Duck's Despair?
- Duck's Despair was developed by Faith G..
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