The parody title Escape from Duckov has, for many players, managed to eclipse Battlestate Games’ original.
Escape from Tarkov’s Steam release was greeted by a wave of negative reviews triggered by technical issues. That backlash caused a sharp drop in Battlestate Games’ rating, putting it squarely in the “red zone.”
The volume of negative feedback was so large that the extraction shooter landed among Steam’s 20 lowest-rated games by user score — sitting at number 19, between Hawken Reborn and Feed the Cups. The notoriously panned Umbrella Corps occupies 22nd place on that list.
By contrast, the mid-October Tarkov parody featuring ducks — Escape from Duckov — is thriving: its peak concurrent players still exceed 100,000 (EFT’s peak is about 48,000), and reviews are overwhelmingly positive, with a 96% rating.
Source: iXBT.games