tinyBuild announced PvPvE survival FPS DUCKSIDE is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S in early access on September 3. The console versions will feature full content parity with the Steam Early Access version, along with crossplay.
Specifically, DUCKSIDE will launch on PS5 in early access and on Xbox Series X|S via Game Preview for $14.99. There will also be a Special Duck-Ops Edition for $17.99, featuring the base game and Supporter Pack DLC with in-game skins. PlayStation gamers receive three PS5 avatars with the Standard Edition and 15 PS5 avatars with the Special Duck-Ops Edition. Both editions will have a 35% off limited-time launch discount as well.
What’s more, the “First Flight” DLC will be available for free on Xbox and to all PlayStation Plus members. The DLC includes six First Flight-themed hats, the Paw and Pool Nests, and a set of Small & Big Storage Crates and a Base Door, colored for the respective platforms (blue on PlayStation, green on Xbox).
Lastly, here’s an overview of the game, via Steam:
Welcome to DUCKSIDE: persistent world survival… on QUACK
Over 10 million ducks get killed per year by hunters, a statistic that would be much lower if ducks were combat trained. Enter DUCKSIDE, a persistent world survival game like DayZ or Rust… but you’re a duck, and so is everybody else!!
It’s a hard Duck life
Wake up at the quack of dawn and put those webbed feet to use or take flight across an expansive island, where valuable resources and egg-citing treasures await any lucky duckys fortunate enough to discover them.
Are you a chicken? No, you’re a DUCK.
DUCKSIDE isn’t just about surviving; it’s about getting into the mind of a duck. Being a duck. Feeling the cold steel of a machine gun on your feathers. The heat of a grenade exploding next to you. And the peace of mind that comes with settling down after a long day, in a house you built out of trash that you’d looted off some guy’s corpse. Don’t be a chicken, be a firequacker.
Get your ducks in a row
Harvest resources, craft weapons and tools, and build shelters to protect your loot and your life.
How do Ducks even hold weapons and tools, you ask? Who cares silly goose? With a crafting system as deep and robust as this, they were wise to adapt, else they’d just be hanging around in ponds all day waiting to be added to that “10 million” statistic.
The sky(box) is the limit
Are you really a Duck if you can’t fly? No, you’re a penguin or something. So yes, you CAN fly; we’ve introduced an egg-cellent player controller with sophisticated flight mechanics allowing you to glide, hover, accelerate and dive, even whilst shooting and fighting!
A world of fowl play
An alive Duck can keep his gear safe and his teammates alive.. A dead duck however, is much less useful. Afterall – birds of a feather stay together.
Don’t be a duckling – get yourself equipped, build nests for safety, storage, survival, and strategic advantage, but be warned: nothing is truly safe. Every structure can be destroyed, every stash of loot raided, and every migration could end in death.
There’s no such thing as too many ducks
Play alone or create a flock with other ducks to build, explore, fight, and survive together. Ducks are fiercely territorial, so encounters with opposing ducks can and will often result in some feathers being ruffled.
