I've been hooked on Escape from Duckov since it released having put over 300 hours into the game. For those of you that don't know, it's a singleplayer top down version of Tarkov, with ducks. I knew it was based on Tarkov but I didn't know to what extent till I finally decided to check out the game it is inspired by. Turns out two bosses were even added in a crossover event, Killa and Tagilla, they were tough as balls to kill in Duckov when I first encountered them, I was interested enough to see what the original bosses looked like and the devs did a great job of really porting them over as ducks with their original helmet designs from Tarkov.
I've been looking into Tarkov and already know that I would never enjoy the original PvP version of the game, but then I found out that there was a PvE mode and wondered if it would be something I would enjoy, seeing as I love the singleplayer game that mostly mirrors Tarkov.
Duckov has a story (though simple) with tons of quests and progression via player upgrades, quest rewards giving you gear and unlocking new items to buy at the stores. You find in the maps or even earn via quests research blueprints that allow you to craft stronger gear or items used for crafting other weapons or gesr. Of course you have the looting where you can get lucky and hit a rare item, like a GPU, LEDX, rare weapon etc. You can even build a Bitcoin mining machine and fill it with GPUs (turns out this was a Tarkov thing too and where it comes from) and build a black market (though trades are all randomly generated, I'm guessing in Tarkov this is a real market with human sellers?). Does Tarkov PvE have a story, quests and actual progression similar to Duckov? If so I might give it a try. I ask this because I'm not sure if Tarkov is a fully fledged experience in the singleplayer department in terms of content and progression in the same way as Duckov is.
