Duct & Cover
About Duct & Cover
Duct & Cover opens with a washing machine about to spin, and balanced on top of it are a TV, a box, and Loaf — a ginger cat with googly eyes and a very worried expression. The goal is to tape everything together before the machine goes. Every object in the game has googly eyes, and every one of them is anxious about what comes next.
The game runs across 32 levels set in nine distinct locations: the laundry, a moving van, a balloon party, the kitchen, a balcony, the bathroom, a carousel, a flat with a robot vacuum, and a junkyard with a crane magnet. Three bosses punctuate the journey, and the whole thing ends with a DELIVERED stamp. Beyond duct tape, the available fasteners include rubber bands, rope, double-sided tape, and a suction cup.
How to Play Duct & Cover
Each level begins by showing what happens to the objects when left untaped — a cassette button replays that preview. The task is to place strips before pressing the big yellow ▶ button, which triggers three rounds of shaking, each harder than the last.
Placing and Removing Strips
Draw a strip and it lands as a straight line joining every object it crosses — the cat to the box, a stack of plates into a solid brick, the TV to the washer. A strip must connect at least two things, and at least one of those things must be loose; otherwise the strip returns to the roll. Only objects with a dark outline accept tape; the background does not. One crease along a strip acts as a hinge, while two creases form a rigid weld. To remove a strip, tap it and the material goes back to the roll.
Surviving the Shake
Once the machine runs, nothing with eyes may touch the floor and nothing fragile may break. A star drops for every round survived; clearing one star is enough to pass the level. The tape reacts physically — it stretches, turns red, squeaks, and snaps with a twang when it gives way.
Retrying and Rewinding
After the result screen, tap the room to rewind with all existing strips kept in place. On a retry, holding the screen accelerates the shake to three times the normal speed. New fastener rolls — rubber band, rope, double-sided tape, suction cup — are selected from the tray at the bottom of the screen.
Controls
- Drag (finger or mouse): Draw a straight strip of tape across objects
- Release: Lock the strip in place, joining everything it crossed
- Tap a strip: Peel it off and return it to the roll
- Tap the big yellow ▶ button: Start the three-round shake
- Tap the room (after result): Rewind with strips kept
- Hold the screen (on retry): Shake at 3× speed
- Level badge (top left): Open the level list
- Button (top right): Pause the game
Games You Might Like
If the physics-based puzzle logic in Duct & Cover appeals to you, puzzle games on Playgama offer a wide range of brain-teasing challenges worth exploring. For something with a similarly relaxed but methodical pace, Arrowscape: Arrow Puzzle tasks you with clearing arrows in the right order to reveal hidden pictures across themed worlds. Blockibo: Color Blocks shares that same quality of starting simple and steadily layering new mechanics as you move blocks and clear the board. For a lighter change of pace after all that taping, Veggie Cats: Idle Farm Tycoon puts you in charge of a cozy cat-run farm with harvesting, factories, and upgrades to manage.
The arcade games category is a natural next stop for anyone who enjoyed the round-based tension of Duct & Cover, and the funny games collection is full of titles that match its googly-eyed, chaotic charm.
