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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is a cute, relaxing and collectathon game developed by turbolento games and published by turbolento publishing and Team17.
Released on July 06th 2022 is available only on Windows in 13 languages: English, Italian, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, French, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, German, Ukrainian, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Turkish.

It has received 17,685 reviews of which 17,302 were positive and 383 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Placid Plastic Duck Simulator into these genres:

Cute Relaxing Collectathon Physics 3D Casual Immersive Sim Funny Simulation Life Sim Colorful Third Person Surreal Family Friendly Realistic Atmospheric Memes 1990's Singleplayer Idler

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: core i3
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
  • Storage: 500 MB available space

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2 hours played
May 2026
There are games that try to impress you with scale. Massive open worlds, cinematic storytelling, endless progression systems, skill trees, battle passes, crafting mechanics, and enough side content to feel like a second job. Modern gaming often feels obsessed with being bigger, louder, and more complicated than everything that came before it. Then there’s Placid Plastic Duck Simulator, a game where you watch rubber ducks float in a swimming pool. That’s the entire game. No enemies. No objectives. No combat. No dialogue trees. No grinding. No survival mechanics. Just ducks floating peacefully while ambient music plays in the background. I originally bought this game as a joke. I expected fifteen minutes of ironic entertainment before uninstalling it forever. Instead, I ended up spending hours staring at floating plastic ducks while somehow feeling more relaxed than I had in weeks. What surprised me most is that the game is completely sincere. It never treats itself like a meme or a parody. It knows exactly what it is and commits fully to the experience. The first few minutes are almost uncomfortable because modern games have conditioned us to constantly search for objectives. We expect tutorials, rewards, progression bars, and systems layered on top of systems. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator ignores all of that. A duck drops into the pool, it floats around naturally, and eventually another duck appears. Then another. Slowly the pool fills with weird, colorful, strangely charming ducks that all have their own personalities and little quirks. That simplicity becomes weirdly hypnotic. Without traditional gameplay mechanics, observation itself becomes the experience. You start paying attention to small details: the lighting reflecting on the water, the gentle ambient sounds, the way certain ducks drift together, the transition from sunset to nighttime. The atmosphere is incredibly calming in a way most “relaxing” games fail to achieve because they still overload the player with tasks and progression systems. The sound design deserves a lot of credit here. The ambient music combined with soft environmental noises creates an almost meditative experience. There were moments where I completely forgot I was even playing a game and instead felt like I was sitting beside an actual pool late at night. It captures a feeling of peace that’s surprisingly rare in modern entertainment. What makes the game genuinely brilliant is how attached you become to the ducks. At first they just seem like random collectibles, but eventually you start recognizing favorites. Certain ducks become memorable because of how they move or where they drift in the pool. The game never forces emotional attachment through dialogue or story. Instead, your brain naturally projects personality onto these tiny floating objects, which somehow makes them feel more real than characters in games with million-dollar scripts. The humor also works because the game never tries too hard to be funny. The concept itself is absurd, but the developers play it completely straight. That sincerity is what makes the experience charming instead of annoying. It would have been easy to turn this into a shallow joke game filled with internet meme humor, but instead it becomes something oddly thoughtful and relaxing. I think the reason this game resonates with so many people is because it offers something modern gaming rarely does: stillness. Most games constantly demand your attention. They want you grinding for rewards, optimizing builds, finishing objectives, or chasing progression. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator asks absolutely nothing from the player. You simply exist beside the ducks and watch them float peacefully through the water. That sounds boring, and honestly, it kind of is. But after a while the boredom transforms into tranquility. The game accidentally becomes almost philosophical because it forces you to slow down. It reminds you how uncomfortable people have become with silence and stillness. We’re so used to constant stimulation that a game built entirely around peaceful observation feels strangely radical. Visually, the game is also much prettier than it has any right to be. The lighting, reflections, weather effects, and nighttime atmosphere create moments that are genuinely beautiful. There were times where I found myself staring at the pool under neon lights while rain fell softly in the background wondering how a simulator about rubber ducks somehow became one of the most relaxing experiences in my Steam library. The game also accidentally exposes how conditioned gamers have become toward constant stimulation. Watching player reactions is fascinating because many people initially panic in the absence of objectives. They search desperately for hidden mechanics or secret endings because modern games have trained us to believe every second needs to be productive. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator rejects that mindset completely. It simply says: here are some ducks. Relax. And somehow, against all logic, it works perfectly. I bought this game as a joke, but I ended up genuinely loving it. In a gaming industry obsessed with scale and endless engagement, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator succeeds by doing almost nothing at all. It creates a peaceful atmosphere, trusts the player to slow down, and turns floating rubber ducks into one of the strangest forms of digital therapy I’ve ever experienced. 10/10. The ducks know something we don’t.
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73 hours played
March 2026
I have 4400+ hours on my work account. Everyone at my office loves it. We stream it privately and everyone has their own duck. It's a huge hit. Most of us watch it all day. 10/10
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5 hours played
March 2026
I spent 4 straight hours doing literally nothing but getting all 46-47 Ducks in my save. Do I regret it? No. Do I hate myself? Yes. Is it 2 am? Yes. Have I been bored out of my mind the entire time? Yes. Am I buying all DLC? Guaranteed. 10/10.
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13 hours played
Dec. 2025
Things to use this for: - Relax - To play when grand parents are around - After grinding for an hour - Calming down after Reaper Leviathan - After friend forces u to play brainrot game - After I just waisted 5 Hours of my life in Foxhole
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526 hours played
Aug. 2025
What begins as a simple pool of floating toys slowly unravels into an existential journey. The ducks drift, collide, and bask in the sun, and somehow I start questioning the meaning of my own existence. It’s calm, it’s silly, and it’s oddly profound. 10/10, my therapist has competition.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is currently priced at 1.99€ on Steam.

No, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 1.99€ on Steam.

Yes, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator received 17,302 positive votes out of a total of 17,685 achieving an impressive rating of 9.53.
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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator was developed by turbolento games and published by turbolento publishing and Team17.

Yes, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is not playable on MacOS.

No, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is not playable on Linux.

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

Yes, there are 10 DLCs available for Placid Plastic Duck Simulator. Explore additional content available for Placid Plastic Duck Simulator on Steam.

No, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Placid Plastic Duck Simulator is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Placid Plastic Duck Simulator.

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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
1.99€ Buy Now
Rating
9.5
17,302
383
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
113
Developer
turbolento games
Publisher
turbolento publishing, Team17
Release 06 Jul 2022
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