Duck Duck Bread vs XP Waste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Duck Duck Bread
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Somewhere in a sun-dappled park there is a pond, and the pond has ducks, and the ducks have plans. Duck Duck Bread is a cozy idle game about feeding ducks until the situation escalates. It begins with you flicking crumbs at a pond. It ends with an orbital bread the size of a small moon. The ducks consider this a normal career arc. Tap the Big Loaf. It squashes. Crumbs fly. Ducks approve. Then hire your first employee — a Rubber Ducky that doesn't eat, doesn't swim, and squeaks encouragingly while crumbs somehow appear — and watch the counter move on its own. From there, the operation grows. You will not need a tutorial. The ducks are professionals. THE FLOCK'S BUSINESS PLAN • Flick crumbs at the Big Loaf. Fill the Surge meter. Land the occasional critical flick. Feel the squash. • Build 12 generators in order of increasing seriousness: Rubber Ducky, Duckling Patrol, Mallard With A Little Hat (the hat adds 40% productivity — this is documented), Bread Stand, Sourdough Pond, The Quack Exchange, Duckingham Palace, The Crumbernet, Air Fowl One, The Mother Loaf, and — for accomplished migrators — The Great Migration Fleet and the Embassy of Grain. • Catch the Golden Goose. Every few minutes it glides across the pond. Tap it for a windfall. It honks once, pays in gold, and leaves. Classic goose. • Sleep on the job. The Bread Basket keeps earning for up to 8 hours while the app is closed. Your 34 Mallards will keep their hats on all night. • Fly South for the Winter. When the pond slows, migrate. Return to a fresh spring with permanent Golden Feathers, and spend them on Migration Routes — pick your path, keep what matters, go faster forever. • Collect 24 Pond Postcards, each documenting a milestone with the gravity it deserves ("The ducks have unionized."). • Hats. Eight of them. They are cosmetic. The ducks wear them anyway. • Milestone multipliers, 38 upgrades, Synergy Links, achievements, and numbers with letters after them. A NOTE ON MONEY (THE HUMAN KIND) Everything in Duck Duck Bread can be earned by playing. Optional purchases exist — croutons (bread that got fancy), a starter basket, and one tasteful license that skips the bonus waits — but there are no forced ads, no interstitials, no fake countdowns, and nothing you must buy to reach the ending. The pond is honest. It is mostly water and ambition. The bread is rising. The goose is circling. The hat stays on.
XP Waste
A cozy idle game where you level up 23 different skills to 99. Train skills actively or passively, unlock new methods, and gain permanent perks. Chase the ultimate goal of maxing all skills for a satisfying progression experience.
- Train 23 unique skills
- Evolving training methods
- Permanent account-wide perks
- Passive AFK training
- Energy and Supercharge mechanics
- Daily boosts and Raids
- XP Lamps for instant progress
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XP Waste is a cozy idle skilling game built around one simple, satisfying goal: level every skill to 99. Tap a big, thematic training object to earn experience — chop a tree, cast a line, throw a punch. As a skill grows, its training method upgrades into something new and more powerful, and every tap is worth more. Set skills to train passively, bank Energy for explosive Supercharge bursts, and chase the ultimate flex: max level in all 23 skills. TRAIN 23 SKILLS TO 99 Four categories — Combat, Production, Utility, and Gathering — each with its own thematic training. Every skill uses an authentic, hard-earned experience curve where reaching 99 is a real achievement. Maxing all of them is the true endgame. METHODS THAT EVOLVE Training is never static. Each skill has six tiers of thematic progression that unlock as you level, and the on-screen object visibly upgrades as you climb — a small, frequent reward for every milestone. EVERY SKILL MAKES YOU STRONGER Leveling isn't just a number. Each of the 23 skills grants a permanent, account-wide perk that grows the more you train it. No two perks do the same thing — one widens your biggest hits, another deepens your Energy reserves, another even auto-taps for you — so there's always a reason to spread your taps. TRAIN WHILE YOU'RE AWAY Assign skills to AFK slots and they earn experience passively — while the app is open and while it's closed. Come back to a welcome-back summary of everything your skills earned, and every level-up, while you were gone. Unlock more slots as your total level climbs. ENERGY & SUPERCHARGE Tapping has a chance to spark Energy. Bank enough and Supercharge a skill for a burst of multiplied XP per tap. In a hurry? An Energy Cell fills your bar instantly so you can burst right now. DAILY BOOST Activate a daily boost to multiply all experience for a few minutes — stack it with a Supercharge for an enormous payoff. Certain skills make your boosts stronger and last longer. RAIDS, DIARIES & XP LAMPS There's more to chase than taps. Run daily themed Raids for each skill group and work through Diary tasks as you hit milestones. Clear them to bank XP Lamps — one-time rewards you spend on any skill for an instant burst of progress. BUILT FOR IPHONE & IPAD A clean, native, universal experience designed to look and play great on every device, in every orientation on iPad. Play your way — grind combat, master the gathering skills, or spread your taps wide. It's your account. Push all 23 skills to 99, reach the max total level, and earn your place among the maxed. XP Waste is free to play. Optional token packs can speed up your bursts, but everything can be earned through play. No ads, no account required, and no internet connection needed — your progress lives on your device.
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Verdict
Duck Duck Bread and XP Waste are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Duck Duck Bread sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and XP Waste sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Duck Duck Bread | XP Waste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Jones | GREGORY JOSEPH MOHLER |
In-app purchases
Duck Duck Bread
- 100 Croutons$1.99
- The Picnic Basket$2.99
- Crack the Bread Box$2.99
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- 300 Croutons$4.99
- 700 Croutons$9.99
- Fancy Bread License$9.99
- 1,600 Croutons$19.99
- 4,500 Croutons$49.99
XP Waste
- Pouch of Tokens$0.99
- Sack of Tokens$4.99
- Chest of Tokens$9.99









