Plucked

You're a duck. The pond disagrees.

You were minding your own business, the way ducks do. The pond decided that was a problem. Plucked is a top-down bullet-heaven roguelite where you play a small, round, alarmingly well-armed duck & survive wave after wave of everything that wants you for lunch.

On your own, with up to eleven friends online, or with three more on the same couch.

Twelve ducks, one pond

Co-op isn't bolted on, it's the reason I built this. Up to 12 players in a single arena, joining through a Steam invite, a join code, or the public lobby browser if you'd rather find a pond full of strangers.

Rather sit next to each other? Up to four can play on one screen, & it splits the moment you wander apart.

Everyone brings their own guns, their own coins & their own opinions about what to spend them on. Go down & you spectate the chaos until the next wave brings you back, so the last duck standing keeps the whole run alive.

Shoot first, quack later

Pick a loadout & waddle in. You handle the moving & your guns auto-aim the nearest unlucky amphibian, or switch to manual & aim every shot yourself, mouse or stick. Between waves you spend XP & coins to build a duck that has absolutely no business being this dangerous - more damage, faster fire, thicker feathers, or just spikes, for some reason.

Then comes the fun part: merge your weapons. Two of the same gun fuse into a meaner one, all the way up to Tier 4. Stack a humble pistol into a hand cannon, or hoard shotguns until something breaks. (It will be the frogs.)

Melee is not your backup plan

You carry one melee weapon & it lives on right click, on its own cooldown.

The katana dashes clean through whatever you point it at, & a kill lets you aim & dash again, keep landing them & a maxed katana carves a line straight through a wave. The knife is a shorter hop that chains from body to body through a crowd. The pole spins, swatting enemy projectiles back the way they came, & at a high enough tier that includes a boss's own shots, straight back into its face.

The pond started it

It starts with frogs. It does not stay frogs. Tongues, charges, leaps, crocodiles that put their head down & run at you, leeches that latch on & lock away a slice of your health, mosquitoes that stay out of reach & switch your healing off. By wave 18 the whole pond is out to ruin your run.



Then wave 10 arrives & King Guppy drops in: spits, sweeps, summons, a super jump with a shadow you really want to step out of, & a glob of acid that poisons the ground it lands on. He's the first boss. There's worse in this pond. Get Plucked & see what awaits!

Survive a hundred waves & the pond is yours. Then switch on Endless & find out how long you really last.

What you're getting into

• 12-player online co-op - friend invite, join code, or the public lobby browser with regions.
  
• Couch co-op for four - one screen that splits when you spread out.
  
• Nine weapons, all unreasonable - pistol, shotgun, assault rifle, sniper, an actual rocket launcher, a ricocheting pebble, plus a knife, a pole & a katana.
  
• Merge & sell - fuse duplicate guns up through four tiers & ditch the ones you've outgrown.
  
• Build-crafting that gets out of hand - every level-up offers upgrades, every shop offers items.
  
• Three arenas, real trade-offs - the tight one pays 50% more XP, the sprawling one pays less & hits 50% harder, & clear all three for a fourth with no walls at all.
  
• Four difficulties & run modifiers - from Easy up to Hardcore, plus toggles you unlock along the way: Gun Insanity for when four weapons stop being enough, & Endless for when a hundred waves isn't.
  
• A bestiary to fill - every creature & every colour of it, logged the first time you meet it & properly filled in once you've killed one.
  
• Play it your way - full controller support with Xbox & PlayStation button prompts, rebindable keys, & options for screen shake, flashes & UI size.
  
• Steam leaderboards - separate boards for every arena, difficulty & solo-or-co-op combination, with co-op runs listed by lobby.

Get Plucked

One duck. Too many guns. A pond full of regret. Wishlist Plucked & be there when the feathers hit the fan.