Duck Season

A rented cartridge turns an ordinary summer afternoon in 1988 into a steadily unnerving piece of VR horror. You play a young kid home alone with a Kingbit Entertainment System, a light-gun hunting game, a stack of tapes, and far too much time to let imagination run wild. What begins as a loving recreation of suburban childhood and clunky eight-bit entertainment gradually reveals a darker story behind the smiling dog on the screen. The mood moves from playful nostalgia to genuine dread without abandoning its fondness for old movies, toy-strewn bedrooms, and the strange freedom of being a child with nowhere else to be.

Duck Season centers on firing at ducks in several deliberately simple retro minigames, using VR motion controls to aim the plastic light gun and reload as rounds progress. Between sessions, you can roam the convincingly lived-in house, watch bizarre VHS films, inspect magazines and objects, play with toys, and notice small details that change as the day turns into night. Your choices, performance, discoveries, and actions around the house influence the route through the story, leading toward seven distinct endings rather than one fixed finale. It is less a demanding shooter than an interactive mystery: progress comes from curiosity, observation, and deciding how deeply to investigate the unsettling things happening around you.

Its strongest feature is the way virtual reality makes familiar domestic spaces feel tangible and increasingly unsafe; picking up a controller, opening a cupboard, or looking down a hallway carries more tension than it would on a flat screen. The game layers its central plot with hidden scenes, secret interactions, and strange side stories, giving repeat playthroughs real value despite a relatively short first run. Visuals intentionally blend blocky game-within-a-game graphics with a realistic, warmly lit home, evoking the era without feeling like empty nostalgia. Players who enjoy Five Nights at Freddy’s-style creeping unease, classic VHS horror, or playful VR exploration will find plenty to uncover, while newcomers should be comfortable with jumpy moments and room-scale interaction.