Tarkov Spoof Escape from Duckov Sells 500k Copies in First Weekend | TechRaptor

Tarkov Spoof Escape from Duckov Sells 500k Copies in First Weekend | TechRaptor

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Indie extraction shooter and Escape from Tarkov spoof Escape from Duckov has managed to sell a pretty impressive number of copies since launching on Thursday, developer Team Soda and publisher bilibili have announced.

According to a Steam postEscape from Duckov sales have hit 500,000 since last week's release, an achievement Team Soda says has its developers "quacking with joy and flapping [their] wings in excitement".

The studio promises that every subsequent update for Duckov will "live up to your expectations" and reminds everyone who hasn't bought the game yet that it's still available at a 12% discount, so if you are at all interested in Escape from Duckov, now's the time to pick it up.

Duckov's achievement puts it on par with "anxiety horror" game No, I'm Not a Human and cozy RPG Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma in the sales stakes, although it's a very different prospect to either of those games.

It's not a bad figure at all for a game that almost certainly started out as a joke based on its title, so kudos to Team Soda and bilibili for seeing this one through. I'd say they deserve to reap the benefits, especially if the game's...