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DuckSmith

Raise • Defend • Remember

A farm where every duck has a name, a memory, a bloodline and an ending. Raise them through the turning year, defend them from what circles the fence, and write down what they did.

Free forever. No account, no download, no wall — the whole game opens in your browser.

"We are small. We are soft. But together, we are a force that makes foxes tremble." — Henry, the First Duck
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A Living Farm

Every duck remembers. Every choice matters. None of it is scripted.

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Memory & Character

Ducks remember what happened to them — the fox they survived, the friend they lost, the hand that fed them. Enough of the right memories and a duck becomes courageous, haunted, vengeful, or legendary. Nothing is assigned; it's earned.

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Bloodlines

Ducklings inherit stats, a personality lean and feather colour from both parents — plus recessives that can skip generations. Keep a line going long enough and a legend may be born rather than made.

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The Wheel of the Year

Four seasons, four days each — a full year takes about eighty minutes. The light changes, the pond freezes, the grass goes gold, and winter starts asking questions your flock has to answer.

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Festivals

Four days a year the farm throws a party: an egg hunt in spring, a duck race you can bet on at midsummer, a send-off for the geese in autumn, and lanterns lit against the longest night.

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The Visitors

Geese drop out of the autumn sky, learn your ducks' names, and leave when winter comes — unless one decides to stay. Frogs raise their own young in the shallows, and the crows are watching them.

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Squads & the Dog

Ducks that trust each other form squads that fight together. Send the dog, sound the horn, throw a treat, or scare a predator off yourself — your hands are in this, not just your wallet.

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The Farmer's Journal

Eighteen chapters that fill themselves in as you play, written in the farmer's own voice. Finish one and a hat you can actually wear comes with it.

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The Long Walk

Ducks live about fifty days. Near the end they go grey, teach the young for a while, and then, on a spring or summer dawn, walk out to the reeds on their own. No blood. Just an ending, and a name in the book.

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The Turning Year

Sixteen days from thaw to thaw. Each season brings something the last one didn't.

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Spring

The thaw. Ducklings hatch, the shallows fill with tadpoles, and the Hatching Festival hides eggs across the farm for you to find.

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Summer

The long ease — and the Midsummer Fair, where you pick a runner, put coins on it, and learn something about your own flock's legs.

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Autumn

The geese arrive and stay the season. Bank your bonds with them at the Send-Off before the sky calls in the loan.

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Winter

Ponds freeze and ducks walk on them. On Lantern Night you light six lamps — and in the Long Dark that follows, their warmth is not decorative.

Your first winter is gentle. The second one isn't. By the third, the cold can take a duck that has nowhere warm to sleep — and it tells you, loudly, before it does.

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Escalating Threats

The farm gets more dangerous as your flock grows.

Day 1 🦊 A Fox tests the fence line. Click it to scare it off — if you're quick, and if you're watching.
Day 2 🐕 A loyal Farm Dog arrives to help patrol and protect your flock.
Day 3 🦅 Hawks circle overhead — they ignore fences and water, striking from the sky. Crows arrive too: watchful allies who steal your feed.
Day 5 🐺 Wolves emerge, faster and tougher. Your squads must be stronger now.
Day 8 🐻 Bears lumber from the deep woods. Massive HP, terrifying strength. Only the strongest squads survive.
Deep 🦈 Something lives in the big pond. It sleeps through winter. It does not sleep through summer.
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Free Forever

The whole game costs nothing. An account costs nothing. Only the Legacy Book is CAD $2.99/month.

Guest — free, no signup
  • The complete game, forever
  • Unlimited ducks, breeding & bloodlines
  • Every season, festival and predator
  • Ducks who talk, remember and grieve
  • Saves stay on this device
Play now — no signup
Free account — email & farmer name
  • Everything above
  • Cloud saves — your flock on any device
  • The signet hat, for account holders only
  • The Featherhollow Chronicle — a monthly digest of your farm's real events, if you want it
Create a free account
The Legacy Book
CAD $2.99 /month
  • Everything above
  • Every month, the story of your flock — written for you, from your farm's own records
  • Kept on your account to read again
  • Cancel anytime
Start free, add it later

The ducks' own voices are generated on your device and always have been — they cost nothing and they're in the free game. The Legacy Book is the one thing written for you elsewhere.