Basically, I've had about a two-week winter vacation from school. I've had a lot of time to think about what I should do with the franchise, especially now that we've sold over 50,000 units! For nearly the whole vacation, I've been trying to decide whether I would want to make Duck Simulator 3 and reach a bigger audience (this was just a school project I put on Steam!) or update Duck Simulator 2 with a multiplayer campaign. And tonight I just realized that I was going about it all wrong, and should ask all of you what you think!
Should I begin work on Duck Simulator 3 in a few weeks, I would likely be able to promise a Summer 2022 release date. However, if I update Duck Simulator 2 with a multiplayer campaign then Duck Simulator 3 could be delayed as far as Winter 2022. The multiplayer campaign definitely wouldn't be any small addition, either! Either way, here's what you could expect from both.
Duck Simulator 3
A completely new game with a much longer story (2-4 hours compared to Duck Simulator 2's 30 minutes)
An included multiplayer campaign, whether that be at launch or via an update
Actual content after the main campaign ends
Duck Simulator 2 Multiplayer
An update to the already existing Duck Simulator 2
Up to four players per room in a game similar if not exact to "A Fable of Below"
Three chapters, each about 20 minutes long (players can only play at their combined lowest chapter)
Game is not tagged as available on Linux on Steam.
Duck Simulator 2 is a genre-defying game where you will hop between different games in an attempt to find an evil rubber duck that is attempting to ruin the developer's game!
You'll begin by quacking your way through a clicker game, but before you know it the rubber duck will go rogue and completely destroy it! From there, the developer will create several different games (each with a varying genre) for you to complete while they try to find out what went wrong with the original game. So one moment you may be shooting red capsules, but in the next you could be hopping between islands whilst trying not to fall into the void!
Features
Four different types of games within the campaign
Includes a remaster of the original Duck Simulator