Ducklove

About this game

Twelve eggs sit on a turning tray, and you stop it to choose one. The big white eggs tend to be Pekins and the small cream ones call ducks, but you only find out for sure when yours hatches and you give her a name. After that, Ducklove is less a game than a little pond to look after. Scatter peas on the water to feed her, give everyone a fresh drink, pet her, and watch her grow from a fluffy duckling into the full feathers of her breed. Once she is grown she lays eggs you can keep or hatch, and a thirty-second forage round, snapping up snails and duckweed while leaving the bread alone, puts your best haul on the day's board.

The flock you meet is real. Tiny and two more white call ducks swim here as photos of our own birds, along with Rusty, a wild mallard hen we raised by hand in 2021, and every quack was recorded on our pond. Geese, swans, an egret and a gull drop in as well. You can dress the pond up with reeds, a dock and a duck house, move it to a lake or a stream, or add a duck of your own from a photo that stays on your device. There are no levels to beat, nobody goes hungry overnight, and it costs nothing to play in your browser. Ducklark is a little studio on Long Island, and this one sits close to our hearts. For the finer points, see how to play Ducklove.