Duck the Miner

Duck the Miner is a 2D mining game about a duck astronaut stranded in the Asteroid Belt after a reactor malfunction sends the ship off course. You mine nearby asteroids for resources, process them into equipment and parts, and repair the ship’s failing systems to restore communications. Once you do, you must decide whether to return home or continue the voyage to Mars.

The mission

After humanity’s abuse of Earth leads to its downfall, a few animal species struggle to survive. They develop new ways to live, gradually gain consciousness and rebuild a new Earth inspired by the ruins of the old civilization. Eons later, Fyction Enterprise pioneers ways to inhabit other planets, sending the first astronaut of the animal species on a mission to live on Mars.

Stranded in the Asteroid Belt

Halfway through the mission, the ship’s reactor suffers a critical malfunction. The ship drifts out of control, far off course, and eventually collides in the Asteroid Belt. You wake to find it in ruins, surrounded by twisted metal and flickering lights, with the asteroids’ resources as your only hope of making repairs and getting saved.