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Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

turbolento games · turbolento publishing · 2022-07-06

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CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person, Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Jul 06, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 27, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Jun 27, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Jun 27, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Jun 27, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Jun 27, 2023 (Xbox One)

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 Casual and Simulation game released in 2022, priced at $1.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (98% of 20232 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners.

107
playing now
98%
positive of 20k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
79/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
2
Nexus mods (20 downloads)
4.64★
PlayStation Store rating (668 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$1.99
steam price (US)

107 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator trailer thumbnail

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator | Launch Trailer

≈231,591 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 107 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,347 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~168/week).
  • · Review velocity down 23% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 29,032 Casual games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 405k–910k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 20,232 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$8.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2024-02-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $8.99 · on sale 16 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.8k1.8k20222026Week of 2022-07-01: 932 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 283 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 234 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1,764 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1,090 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 814 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 798 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 474 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 450 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 450 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 526 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 401 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 507 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 477 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 394 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 652 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 483 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 339 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 311 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 319 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 209 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 275 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 468 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 366 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 279 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 212 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 159 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 379 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 203 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 300 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 186 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 185 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 147 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 213 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 133 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 148 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

143612026-09-14 21:00 — 91 players2026-09-16 05:00 — 84 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 69 players2026-09-18 20:00 — 86 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 100 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 91 players2026-09-22 19:00 — 87 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 72 players2026-09-25 10:00 — 73 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 110 players2026-09-28 01:00 — 91 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 77 players2026-09-30 16:00 — 88 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 93 players2026-10-03 07:00 — 102 players2026-10-04 15:00 — 143 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 101 players2026-10-07 06:00 — 86 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 102 players2026-10-09 21:00 — 116 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 134 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 131 players2026-10-13 20:00 — 120 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 107 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
30141Jul 2022Aug 2026Jul 2022 — avg 196 · peak 535Sep 2022 — avg 41 · peak 73Nov 2022 — avg 170 · peak 641Jan 2023 — avg 237 · peak 420Mar 2023 — avg 197 · peak 347May 2023 — avg 153 · peak 345Jul 2023 — avg 221 · peak 453Sep 2023 — avg 129 · peak 219Nov 2023 — avg 208 · peak 341Jan 2024 — avg 178 · peak 318Mar 2024 — avg 221 · peak 529May 2024 — avg 127 · peak 183Jul 2024 — avg 130 · peak 217Sep 2024 — avg 107 · peak 154Nov 2024 — avg 267 · peak 1,267Jan 2025 — avg 189 · peak 339Mar 2025 — avg 143 · peak 292May 2025 — avg 209 · peak 1,100Jul 2025 — avg 213 · peak 614Sep 2025 — avg 165 · peak 376Nov 2025 — avg 146 · peak 219Jan 2026 — avg 158 · peak 285Mar 2026 — avg 201 · peak 551May 2026 — avg 104 · peak 166Jul 2026 — avg 118 · peak 175Aug 2026 — avg 119 · peak 192
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$8.99$0.992022-07-062026-10-082022-07-06 — best price $1.492022-08-22 — best price $1.992022-11-22 — best price $1.592022-12-19 — best price $1.992023-01-23 — best price $1.692023-03-23 — best price $1.992023-04-25 — best price $1.992023-05-05 — best price $1.592023-05-15 — best price $1.492023-07-06 — best price $1.992023-08-07 — best price $1.992023-11-08 — best price $1.592023-11-28 — best price $1.992024-01-04 — best price $1.992024-03-01 — best price $1.992024-04-01 — best price $1.592024-05-20 — best price $1.992024-08-26 — best price $1.592024-10-14 — best price $1.992024-11-27 — best price $1.592025-01-02 — best price $1.992025-02-24 — best price $1.592025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-06-26 — best price $1.292025-07-28 — best price $1.992025-09-29 — best price $1.592025-11-24 — best price $1.992026-03-05 — best price $0.992026-05-04 — best price $1.992026-08-10 — best price $0.992026-09-03 — best price $4.492026-09-24 — best price $4.492026-10-08 — best price $8.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

48
achievements tracked
83%
earned "Private pool"
11.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportSteam Cloud10 DLC

12 supported languages: English, Italian, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, French, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, German, Ukrainian, Korean, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 10 DLC released, first 2022-10-11, latest 2025-09-16 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)9,0504%48
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)75116%41
PS5 (PlayStation)65625%42
PS4 (PlayStation)9134%42
PS4 (PlayStation)7841%42
PS4 (PlayStation)3453%42
Switch (Nintendo)280%0
PS4 (PlayStation)2650%42

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DCuteFunnyCasualPhysicsSurrealColorfulLife SimRelaxingRealistic

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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