When the humans aren't looking, the bathtub becomes a war zone. That's the pitch behind Rubber Ducky Rampage!, a quick, light battle game for 2 to 6 players where everyone captains a fleet of rubber ducks scrapping for control of the tub. You gather bubbles to power up your ducks and try to sink your rivals to the bottom, and the last captain floating is crowned Top Ducky.
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Set up your group for freeIt's a daft premise with a surprisingly serious designer behind it. Rubber Ducky Rampage is the work of Mike Breault, who has spent more than 30 years in the industry and worked on roughly 130 games, including a stack of Dungeons & Dragons products. These days he teaches game design and narrative design in Webster University's Media Arts programme, where he's been for eight years, and he put out a game design textbook in 2020. He's called the duck game a five-year passion project.
A quick word on the practicalities, because this is a US campaign. Pricing runs to 30 dollars (around £24) for the standard cardboard edition, or 49 dollars (about £39) for a deluxe version with 3D-printed, hand-painted ducks, and the Kickstarter offered early backers a discounted 25-dollar pledge. Distribution is being handled by US retailer Miniature Market, so anyone backing from the UK will want to check postage before diving in.
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Start organising for freeThe campaign launched on 5 May 2026 and comfortably cleared its modest 1,500-dollar goal, so the ducks are on their way. If you want a silly, fast filler to drop on the table between heavier games, this one knows exactly what it is. Time to assemble the fleet and find a game night to test it on.
Sources: EverythingBoardGames | Webster-Kirkwood Times
