Duck Life: Retro Pack

Given that I've had a habit of revisiting these Flash gems in a blast from the past since my time here on Steam, it should come as no surprise that Duck Life is one such series that has its roots deeply engrained into the minds of many young gamers on various PCs across the world wide web back in the more simplistic times of the 2000s. This particularly being the case as Duck Life struck a fine balance with presenting a cute premise and also making it accessible to a large portion of gamers whilst also keeping things as simple as they needed to be without necessarily overstaying its welcome. Sadly though, as time often does tell, I am all too aware of the 'rose-tinted glasses' idiom whereby we often have an overly-positive outlook on the things that we were particularly fond of in the past and thus nostalgic about. For me, Duck Life is one of those games from the increasingly-ancient era of Flash games that, upon revisiting the first three entries via this Retro Pack 'trilogy' of the sorts, unfortunately did not live up to expectations as one might have hoped. To give a brief overall outlook on what Duck Life is all about, each game has you looking after a newly-hatched duckling …

Terrible port littered with bugs. The first two games aren't too bad, just a bit janky, but Evolution has so many issues. Certain evolutions of duck are missing sprite animation, so they can't even walk, they just slide across the ground. The lava in the third evolution climbing minigame has been removed, making the game far easier than it should be. Also the achievements are gone from the third game, and even if they were there, you couldn't get them all because you can only use mouse controls for all the flying minigames, not arrow keys, so flying backwards(one of the og achievements) is impossible. This port did add some of it's own challenges, where you have to get a certain score or number of coins in the different training minigames. These challenges are also broken. The menu and retry buttons kept breaking, and in the final challenges, where you complete multiple challenges in a row, the music tracks layer and play over each other. While I don't recommend this port, I do recommend you play Ducklife if you haven't before, but just play the originals on a flash emulator. They're free and pretty much better in every way.

this collection is just lazy, like you're charging six dollars for this, and you didn't even bother to add any achievements? No controller rebinds? No new music? Like Duck Life 3 literally had achievements it was so easy but you were to lazy so you just removed them? Please just play the game online it's still out there it's completely free. Don't waste your money like this.

Obligated to leave a negative review for the port quality. Not great. Games are still pretty fun though. Except the running training in Evolution. Man that ♥♥♥♥ is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass

If you like flash games, this is perfect for you.

Fun run down memory lane. A little janky though, old games and all. Pretty short experience.