Duck Season

About

Summer 1988, you’re settling in for a day of duck hunting on your Kingbit Entertainment System. The graphics pop, the controls click, and the sun blazes outside. But as hours pass the gameplay shifts. What starts as a simple shoot-’em-up warps into something stranger. Pixelated woods grow too quiet, ducks act like they’re watching you, and the clock ticks toward a sunset that feels wrong. You’re not just hunting targets anymore you’re figuring out a day that doesn’t want to end. Duck Season leans into 80s nostalgia then twists it. Staticky screens and plastic-cartridge charm contrast with a creeping sense of being watched. Players call it a slow burn where ordinary details turn sinister, a flickering TV, a half-eaten snack on the floor. The VR mode deepens the unease by placing you inside the CRT glow. With a 82% on Metacritic it’s praised for its atmosphere over action. Short but tight four hour runtime leaves you questioning every pixel.

Storyline

Summer 1988 and your mom has just rented the coolest new game for your Kingbit Entertainment System. As you play over the course of the day it becomes apparent something is different about this game than the other games you own. Duck Season is a throwback to the golden age of 1980's gaming and movies with a hint of horror in a Spielburgian universe. Re-live a slice of childhood as you transported to an eerily familiar memory and play out the dark story that unfolds over a single day/night as your imagination takes over.