How do players who really played Placid Plastic Duck Simulator rate it? TrueGG Rating 97.8%
Players who really played rate it about the same as Steam overall. Ratings tend to be steady from the first hours.
Good for
- Players who want fun from the first hours
Think twice if you are
- Players wary of microtransactions and DLC
- Players without a strong PC (reports of poor performance)
- Players particular about controls and UI
A rule-based guide from review patterns (no AI). How
vs Steam overall
Positive among players with 5+ hours (last 180 days) · 542 reviews
- TrueGG, all time
- 98.5%
- Steam overall
- 97.6%
- Japanese, all time
- 97.6%
Early wall
Reviews written under 2 hours: 22.9% of all reviews. Their positive share is 94.5%.
This is not a drop-off rate; it describes who wrote reviews. Refund guide: within 14 days of purchase and under 2 hours of play (Steam refund policy).
Does the rating change the longer people play?
Positive share by playtime at the time of review (reviews from the last 180 days). Ranges under 50 reviews are pale and dashed (indicative only); “—” means no reviews.
Show chart values as a table
| Playtime | Positive | Japanese | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0–1 h | 89.9% | 100.0% | 119 |
| 1–2 h | 94.1% | — | 51 |
| 2–5 h | 97.1% | — | 209 |
| 5–10 h | 95.6% | 75.0% | 206 |
| 10–20 h | 98.6% | 100.0% | 142 |
| 20–50 h | 99.1% | 100.0% | 114 |
| 50–100 h | 100.0% | 100.0% | 50 |
| 100–200 h | 100.0% | — | 19 |
| 200+ h | 100.0% | — | 11 |
How long people play: half of reviewers had played 5+ hours. 17% had 20+ hours and 2% had 100+ hours (all time).
Summary
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator has a TrueGG Rating of 97.8%: the positive share among 542 reviews written in the last 180 days by players with 5+ hours, close to Steam's overall 97.6%. Players who really play it broadly agree with the headline number (all time: 98.5%).
Reviews written under 2 hours make up 23% of the total, with 94% positive. The early hours do not split opinion much.
Negative reviews most often mention monetization and DLC, performance, and boredom.
Among Japanese-language reviews, the TrueGG Rating is 97.6%, similar to all languages.
Re-weighting reviews by trust signals (playtime, length, how the game was obtained) barely changes the rating (97.9% adjusted), so Steam's number is not noticeably distorted by key giveaways or throwaway reviews.
All figures come from Steam's public review counts, and topics are counted with our published dictionary (no AI). Data as of 2026-10-19.
Why it is rated this way
− Most mentioned complaints
- Monetization & DLC19% of negative reviews (5% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players
- Performance13% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among under 2h players
- Boring / repetitive10% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among 20–100h players
- Controls, UI & camera8% of negative reviews (2% of positive) · most common among under 2h players
- Price8% of negative reviews (1% of positive) · most common among 2–20h players
+ What players praise
No standout topics
Counted from 311 recent negative and 600 positive reviews in Japanese and English, using our published topic dictionary. No AI is used. Topics overlap, so shares do not add up to 100%. Sarcasm and nuance are not detected, and this does not show cause and effect.How we count
Checking the numbers
Figures with a different scope, shown alongside the TrueGG Rating.
| Metric | Positive | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Official Steam rating | 97.6% | All time, all languages · 20,383 reviews |
| Adjusted rating | 97.9% | Weighted by trust (95% range 97.8%–98.0%), +0.4pt vs official |
| Japanese-language reviews | 96.9% | All time, Japanese-language reviews (−0.7pt vs overall) · 353 reviews |
Show the positive vs negative breakdown
Share of sampled reviews that meet each condition that lowers trust. When a condition is more common on the positive side, the adjusted rating falls below the official one.
| Condition | Positive reviews | Negative reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Under 2 hours played at review | 19% | 53% |
| Very short text | 37% | 14% |
| Key activated outside Steam | 13% | 11% |
| Received for free | 3% | 4% |
| Owns very few games | 9% | 3% |
| Over 100 reviews written | 6% | 19% |
| Average trust (1.0 = full) | 0.73 | 0.62 |
The median total playtime of the sampled reviewers is 5.6 hours. 400 positive and 400 negative reviews analyzed · data as of 2026-10-19
When did the rating change?
Monthly positive and negative review counts since release, as published by Steam.
Reviews per month
Positive share per month
Months with under 30 reviews are omitted from the rate.
Updates and ratings before and after
| Date | Announcement | 2 months before → after |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-27 | Maneki Ducko Plushie Crowdfund Is Live! | — |
| 2025-09-16 | New DLC out: Virtual Thermae! | 98% → 95% (−3.1pt) |
| 2025-07-07 | A new FREE DLC is out: "Ducklings" + Happy Birthday PPDS! | 95% → 98% (+2.4pt) |
| 2024-11-15 | "Ducks Galore" DLC and a Kickstarter on the horizon! | 97% → 97% (+0.6pt) |
| 2024-10-08 | "Rooftop One Percent" DLC is now available! | 96% → 96% (−0.3pt) |
| 2023-10-05 | "So Many Ducks" DLC is now available! | 98% → 97% (−1.0pt) |
Picked automatically from the titles of Steam announcements by the developer (one per month, last 3 years, up to 10). The dotted lines mark those months. Before and after are the positive rates of the two months before and after (excluding the month itself); shown as "—" under 50 reviews or when the two months after are not complete. An update is not necessarily the cause of a change.
Reviews per day, last 30 days
Show monthly data as a table
| Month | Positive | Negative | Positive |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07 | 932 | 25 | 97.4% |
| 2022-08 | 283 | 10 | 96.6% |
| 2022-09 | 108 | 2 | 98.2% |
| 2022-10 | 234 | 4 | 98.3% |
| 2022-11 | 1,764 | 14 | 99.2% |
| 2022-12 | 1,090 | 21 | 98.1% |
| 2023-01 | 814 | 12 | 98.5% |
| 2023-02 | 798 | 10 | 98.8% |
| 2023-03 | 474 | 5 | 99.0% |
| 2023-04 | 426 | 9 | 97.9% |
| 2023-05 | 450 | 4 | 99.1% |
| 2023-06 | 450 | 8 | 98.3% |
| 2023-07 | 526 | 15 | 97.2% |
| 2023-08 | 356 | 10 | 97.3% |
| 2023-09 | 294 | 5 | 98.3% |
| 2023-10 | 401 | 6 | 98.5% |
| 2023-11 | 507 | 13 | 97.5% |
| 2023-12 | 477 | 20 | 96.0% |
| 2024-01 | 394 | 8 | 98.0% |
| 2024-02 | 652 | 21 | 96.9% |
| 2024-03 | 483 | 10 | 98.0% |
| 2024-04 | 339 | 10 | 97.1% |
| 2024-05 | 311 | 10 | 96.9% |
| 2024-06 | 266 | 4 | 98.5% |
| 2024-07 | 319 | 8 | 97.6% |
| 2024-08 | 209 | 9 | 95.9% |
| 2024-09 | 195 | 6 | 97.0% |
| 2024-10 | 275 | 10 | 96.5% |
| 2024-11 | 468 | 28 | 94.4% |
| 2024-12 | 366 | 6 | 98.4% |
| 2025-01 | 279 | 12 | 95.9% |
| 2025-02 | 246 | 7 | 97.2% |
| 2025-03 | 212 | 9 | 95.9% |
| 2025-04 | 159 | 6 | 96.4% |
| 2025-05 | 379 | 20 | 95.0% |
| 2025-06 | 203 | 10 | 95.3% |
| 2025-07 | 300 | 10 | 96.8% |
| 2025-08 | 154 | 1 | 99.4% |
| 2025-09 | 160 | 7 | 95.8% |
| 2025-10 | 160 | 4 | 97.6% |
| 2025-11 | 168 | 15 | 91.8% |
| 2025-12 | 186 | 6 | 96.9% |
| 2026-01 | 185 | 6 | 96.9% |
| 2026-02 | 147 | 6 | 96.1% |
| 2026-03 | 213 | 14 | 93.8% |
| 2026-04 | 133 | 3 | 97.8% |
| 2026-05 | 124 | 3 | 97.6% |
| 2026-06 | 160 | 10 | 94.1% |
| 2026-07 | 148 | 3 | 98.0% |
| 2026-08 | 145 | 9 | 94.2% |
| 2026-09 | 95 | 1 | 99.0% |
| 2026-10 | 88 | 3 | 96.7% |
Show daily data as a table
| Day | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-19 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-09-20 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-09-21 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-09-22 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-09-23 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-09-24 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-09-25 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-09-26 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-09-27 | 8 | 0 |
| 2026-09-28 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-09-29 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026-09-30 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-10-01 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-10-02 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-10-03 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-10-04 | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-10-05 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-10-06 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-10-07 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-10-08 | 3 | 1 |
| 2026-10-09 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-10-10 | 5 | 2 |
| 2026-10-11 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-10-12 | 5 | 0 |
| 2026-10-13 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-10-14 | 2 | 0 |
| 2026-10-15 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-10-16 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-10-17 | 6 | 0 |
| 2026-10-18 | 7 | 0 |
Recent sentiment
| Period | Positive | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 97.4% | 152 |
| Last 180 days | 96.4% | 916 |
| All time | 97.6% | 20,383 |
| Japanese, last 180 days | 93.3% | 15 |
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