Duck Side of the Moon

Duck Side of the Moon is quite an enjoyable short ride, where you’ll be relaxing your way through a 3- to 5-hour-long journey that reminds us all about not overworking ourselves, learning to take our time, and relaxing whenever necessary.

While it’s a short experience, Duck Side of the Moon boasts graceful movement and controls that make zipping around a friendly little galaxy immensely fun. It does not revolutionize anything you’ve seen before that carries the “cozy” tag with it but rather shows incredible promise for a new studio making games, bringing light into a currently dim moment in the industry.

Cozy space-themed adventure that places you in the role of an astronaut duck

Duck Side of the Moon is a quacking good time: an adorable space-bound adventure with simple yet inviting mechanics, silly yet engaging writing, and the occasional shockingly emotional moment. For those looking for a relaxing game, this title will more than hit the mark, winning you over with its unique score, fun exploration at your own pace, and overall memorable experiences.

Duck Side of the Moon is a great addition to the cozy game genre and one that adds more interaction than many other titles. It often feels like a fusion of modern cozy game and classic collectathons which makes for a fantastic feel-good time and one that I really enjoyed.

Duck Side of the Moon is a true little indie gem that doesn’t try to be something it’s not, it’s perfect exactly the way it is. Concise, charming, and incredibly fun, it’s a wonderful example of how “less is more” can absolutely hit the mark.

If you accept that you are buying more of an interactive therapy session than an epic adventure, you will leave — or rather fly away — more than satisfied.

Duck Side of the Moon is not going to challenge you, and it is not trying to. It is a sweet, funny, relaxed exploration game about helping rock aliens, mining space minerals, dressing up a duck, and slowly fixing a busted ship. The missing map keeps it from feeling as frictionless as it should, but everything else lands with enough charm that I still kinda loved my time with it.

It's very short but oh-so-sweet: Duck Side of the Moon is a cosy adventure about repairing your ship after crash-landing on a rocky planet, and it'll warm your heart. It's just a shame that it's done with in only a few hours.

Duck Side of the Moon is a light, ironic adventure, built around a simple idea but carried out with coherence, but also without particular peaks of depth and quality.