Duck Life 4

Duck Life 4 splits its duck's abilities across four separate skills, running, flying, swimming, and climbing, and the tournaments waiting at the end test all four rather than letting you specialize in just one, which makes balanced training the actual strategy rather than maxing a favorite stat.

Because each mini-game trains only its matching skill, checking which stat a tournament weighs most heavily before investing training time pays off more than training evenly by default, a duck built for a swimming-heavy event needs a completely different training split than one prepping for a climbing course. Racing earnings back into training rather than spending on cosmetics keeps the duck's growth compounding faster heading into tougher, later tournaments. Cow Bay covers a similarly gentle animal-raising loop if the training side is what you enjoy most here.