"The game of your dreams just dropped, DUCK SEASON, a hunter with ridiculous graphics. Luckily, it's summer vacation and Mom
just surprised you with a one day rental of it! Unfortunately, as you binge play it becomes apparent that all is not right
with Duck Season..." ― Steam Page
Duck Season is a VR game developed and published by Stress Level Zero. Set in 1988, you are a small child who plays Duck Season, a popular hunting game that transports your consciousness to the Voidway. Unfortunately, as you play, it becomes apparent that all is not right with Duck Season...
Duck Season was released for PCVR on September 14, 2017 for $19.99 USD. It supports HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve Index, and Windows Mixed Reality. A PC port was released in 2019, titled Duck Season PC.[1]
Description
Summer 1988 and your mom has just rented the coolest new game for your Kingbit Entertainment System. As you play over the course of the day it becomes apparent something is different about this game than the other games you own. Duck Season is a throwback to the golden age of 1980's gaming and movies with a hint of horror in a Spielburgian universe. Re-live a slice of childhood as you transported to an eerily familiar memory and play out the dark story that unfolds over a single day/night as your imagination takes over.
- Seven unique endings
- Seven mini games to play on your Kingbit Entertainment System
- Dozens of Easter eggs and hidden secrets
- Realistic virtual environments
- Multiple short films found on VHS tapes
- Additional mysterious sub plots
Plot
The game takes place in the summer of 1988. Playing as David, a third-grader with an addiction to video games,
The game takes place in an unknown suburban location where you play as David, a six-year-old boy. It's summer, and your Mom has rented Duck Season for you, a parody of Duck Hunt that runs on a Kingbit entertainment system. As you play the game something seems off and a mysterious threat presents itself: the Dog. There are many different endings to the game, but only one is considered canon.
Development
Duck Season is a throwback to the golden age of 1980's gaming and movies with a hint of horror in a Spielburgian universe. Re-live a slice of childhood as you transported to an eerily familiar memory and play out the dark story that unfolds over a single day/night as your imagination takes over. - Steam Page
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Trivia
- There have been several episodes of Game Theory about Duck Season, but for the original episode most of the conclusions drawn were disconfirmed by SLZ. They have not commented on the more recent episodes.
- Duck Season is a throwback to the golden age of 1980's gaming and movies with a hint of horror in a Spielburgian universe. Re-live a slice of childhood as you transported to an eerily familiar memory and play out the dark story that unfolds over a single day/night as your imagination takes over. - Steam Page