DUCKSIDE similar games & best alternatives

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DUCKSIDE

Xbox Series X|S, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5 • 2024

Should you play it?

Imagine DayZ or Rust but you're a duck. A persistent world survival game with PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks, wielding weapons.

What works

  • Unique flying mechanic adds strategic depth
  • Fun and accessible survival gameplay
  • Smooth progression and base building
  • Good value for price
  • Active developer support and updates

Things to keep in mind

  • Toxic player community
  • Performance issues and bugs
  • Small fixed map limits exploration
  • Base raiding can be frustrating
  • Lack of narrative content

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Cyber Hunter

  • Hurtworld

  • Shotgun Farmers

  • War Dust VR: 32v32 Battlefields

  • Airmen

  • ONRAID

Less dominating

Games that feels like DUCKSIDE but with less domination over others

  • Over The Top: WWI

  • BattleBit Remastered

  • Guns of Icarus Online

  • Heroes of Valor

  • Guns of Icarus Alliance

  • Palworld

More story-driven

Games that feels like DUCKSIDE but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Halo: The Master Chief Collection

  • Borderlands 2

  • Apewar

  • Shatterline

  • SMITE®

  • Hunt: Showdown 1896

Less competitive

Games that feels like DUCKSIDE but with less competition against others

  • Valheim

  • Starship Troopers: Extermination

  • Craftopia

  • Deep Rock Galactic

  • LORT

  • C.A.S.T. (CHERNOZEM ANOMALY STRIKE TEAM)

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Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

DUCKSIDE: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Domination, Violence. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 03/08/2026