Gravity Duck

Gravity Duck, a $1 universal game for iOS, stars a little pixelated duck who has been sent by his Easter-Island-like deity to collect all of the golden eggs on an island. The duck has been given the ability to reverse gravity, effectively transforming the platforming gameplay into a much more complex and interesting enterprise. Across the games’100+ levels, players will be guiding the adorable and silent duck to capture these eggs while dodging spikes, killer caterpillars, and other classic platformer enemies.

The game controls are as simple as the premise: players can move and reverse gravity, however, they cannot change the gravity when the duck is in mid-air.

The difficulty level that we would categorize this game is Diabolic. There are so many ways for Gravity Duck to die, plus, there are no save points for any level. So imagine when you are near to the goal, accidentally you walk into some spikes, frustration sets in as you have to start the level—albeit short—over again. For the most part, each stage can only be solved using one particular strategy, and this funneled feeling is perhaps the most disappointing aspect of the game. Bigger stages with more features and abilities would have done wonders to keep this game on my iPhone longer.

In fact, with a more ambitious budget/vision, you could see Gravity Duck finding a home on a major console in the retro 16-bit era niche—that’s either a testament to the game’s great concept and art or it being overly simplistic.

So get your Gravity Duck at iTunes!

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