Duckers vs Sling Kong
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Duckers
Embark on a magical mining adventure to dig for gold, gems, and secret items. Unlock new areas, upgrade your tools, and collect adorable characters. Compete with friends on leaderboards and earn achievements in this fun-filled treasure hunt.
- Dig for gold coins and gems
- Collect secret items
- Unlock different areas
- Numerous upgrades
- Earn Game Center achievements
- Compete on leaderboards
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Join Duckers and friends on a wild treasure hunt in this fantastic mining adventure. Dig for gold coins and gems, and collect all the secret items to complete your collection. With its adorable cast of characters, different areas to unlock, and numerous upgrades, Duckers is endless fun for the whole family. Earn Game Center achievements as you complete your collection of secret goodies, or compete for the best score with your friends on the leaderboard. How deep can you go? What dangers and treasures are waiting for Duckers and his friends? Don't wait any longer, download Duckers now and get digging.
Sling Kong
Bounce and swing your character upwards through challenging levels filled with traps and obstacles. Collect over 100 unique characters and compete with friends. Create custom characters using selfies and accessories.
- Upward scrolling gameplay
- Dastardly traps and obstacles
- Collect over 100 characters
- Challenge friends
- Create custom characters with selfies
- Dress characters with accessories
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Sling, bounce and swing your Kong to glory, but watch out for all manner of dastardly traps and obstacles. Go up, and up, and up until there’s no more up to go, or else meet your hilarious end! Join Chimp, Pig, Jellyfish and over 100 other crazy and colorful characters as you challenge your friends to become the best Kong Slinger around. Now you can even take a selfie and create your very own Kong! Kong your friends and family and dress them up with fun accessories! There are thousands of combinations!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Duckers at none against Sling Kong's shown. Duckers also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). Sling Kong's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months) and ratings volume (19K vs 80). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Duckers sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Sling Kong sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sling Kong holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sling Kong has 19K ratings behind it against 80, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of Duckers's written reviews are positive against 85% of Sling Kong's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Duckers ships an update every 10 months, Sling Kong every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Duckers | Sling Kong |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (80 ratings) | 4.8 (19K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 84.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 80 | 19K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 301 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Retro Dreamer | Protostar |
Customer experience
Duckers
Sling Kong
User reviews
Duckers
From 80 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🐤 Cute and adorable characters
- 👍 Relaxing and easy to play
- 🕹️ Simple and intuitive controls
- 🎨 Visually appealing graphics
- 🎶 Calming and enjoyable music
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🕰️ Slow coin/currency accumulation
- 🔁 Repetitive and lacking variety
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
Sling Kong
From 19K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Amazing game!
- 👍 Very fun and addictive
- 🐵 Cute and funny characters
- 💰 Lots of ways to earn coins
- 🎨 Fun themes and events
Room to improve
- 🤑 Expensive prizes and in-app purchases
- 🤖 Too many ads
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🤔 Repetitive gameplay after a while
- 🤯 World average too difficult to beat
Bugs and requests
Duckers
Reported bugs
2 issues- Freezing and lag during gameplay
- Issues with character/background switching
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and map variations
- Ability to save progress and continue later
- Permanent power-ups and character upgrades
- Challenges, achievements, and leaderboards
Sling Kong
Reported bugs
4 issues- Ads not working properly
- Prizes not showing up correctly
- Saved progress not loading on new devices
- Certain Kongs not displaying properly
Requested features
6 requests- More new and rare Kongs to collect
- Ability to trade or share Kongs with friends
- Hat store to buy hats for specific Kongs
- More mini-games and challenges
- Customizable levels or courses
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- Multiplayer mode to compete against friends
In-app purchases
Duckers
- 1000 Coins$0.99
- Coin Duplicator$1.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
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- 7,500 Coins$4.99
- Premium Pack$4.99
- 60,000 Coins$29.99
Sling Kong
- Coin Pack 1$0.99
- Coin Special 1$0.99
- Magic Orb Combo!$0.99
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- Spooky Village$0.99
- Under The Sea$0.99
- Coin Pack 2$2.99
- Coin Special 2$2.99
- Mega Theme Bundle 1$2.99
- Coin Pack 3$5.99
- Coin Pack 4$19.99
