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Ducky Push

Swipe a chubby duckling across tiny rooms and onto its pond.

Core mechanic

Each level is a 5x5 grid with one duck, one pond, and obstacles; swipe to push the duck tile-by-tile until it slides into the water with a satisfying plop.

Controls

Swipe in four directions to push the duck; undo button uses one of limited rewinds.

Theme

Cozy duck-sokoban skin riding Ducky Sokoban DX's cute pixel-art revival.

Why now

Ducky Sokoban DX is earning 5.0 stars and cozy-puzzle TikTok is thriving on cute-animal mechanics.

Signals · overall 6/10
Hook
6/10

Ducky Sokoban DX exists on itch.io as a colorful, whimsical sokoban variant described as 'cozy puzzle' on KBH Games, confirming cute-animal push mechanics already resonate with a niche audience but the hook isn't novel.Ducky Sokoban DX itch page confirming the trend sourceKBH Games description calling it a 'cozy puzzle' with cute presentation

Virality
5/10

Cozy puzzle content with tactile satisfaction has TikTok pull, but sokoban-style push puzzles rarely break out as viral hits; viral triggers favor visual distortion or 'aha' moments over deterministic grid puzzles.Article noting viral puzzle triggers are visual distortion, tactile surprise, or aha moments — not sokoban-style push logicGeneric hypercasual puzzle TikTok but no standout duck/sokoban viral hits

Simplicity
8/10

Core sokoban push mechanic on a 5x5 grid with swipe controls and a single undo button is trivially implementable; well within a weekend prototype scope.

Monetization
6/10

Hypercasual puzzle is a top subgenre (Puzzle ~20% of 2024 mobile downloads, >1.4M downloads per top title); rewarded video for undo/hints + interstitials between levels is the standard, proven ad stack for this shape of game.2025 Mobile Casual Benchmarks — Word/Puzzle subgenres exceed 1.4M downloadsH1 2025 top 100 hypercasual = 2.4B downloads, $345M IAP

Whitespace
3/10

Push-block/sokoban space is heavily crowded: Ducky Sokoban DX itself, Push the Block, Push & Fit, Push Puzzle Game, PushPuz — multiple direct competitors on both stores with the exact same core loop.Push the Block on Google Play — direct mechanic competitorPush Puzzle Game on App Store — direct competitorPush & Fit: Block Puzzle — another direct push-puzzle competitor

Ducky Sokoban DXitch.io · 2026-07-27 (today)