Sort Them Ducks Upgrades Hub
Spend money on fewer trips, not on toys you will forget to activate.
Every correctly placed duck pays you. That economy is the only skill tree Sort Them Ducks has, and it is enough. This hub ranks how to spend so the shop shrinks faster. Open upgrade order if you want a single shopping list. Open skills for the three timed abilities. Open movement for sprint, crouch, jump, and camera comfort.
The Steam page names the fantasy: carry more, move faster, highlight matches, reveal the correct shelf, auto-collect nearby ducks. Preview coverage matches that list and adds a useful constraint — the three headline skills sit on timers. They are not passive auras. If you buy them first, you will still walk with five ducks and a cooldown.
How to read this category
S-tier here means “buy this with the first stack of coins.” It does not mean a PvP meta. There is no other player in the shop. Your opponent is distance. Carry capacity attacks distance. Speed attacks distance. Skills attack confusion. Confusion is rarer than distance, which is why skills sit lower until the floor is already thinning.
If a save refunded your purchases after Patch 1, read patch notes and buy the same order again. The official message is that refunded money comes back once. Do not treat the refund as a chance to experiment with a worse curve unless you enjoy walking.
Pair upgrades with habits
Upgrades do not replace the handful rule from Getting Started. Twenty mixed ducks is twenty destinations. Twenty pirates is one. Skills that fill your inventory from the duck in hand assume you already know the aisle; they are brilliant in phase three of the walkthrough and noisy in phase one.
Use the upgrade planner when you want ticks instead of paragraphs. Come back here when a skill’s timer still feels mysterious. Then go place ducks. The best upgrade is the one that lets you stop opening this wiki.
Hub rules of thumb
If the upgrade menu is open and you feel excitement, buy carry. If you feel confusion, read skills before you tap. If you feel tired of walking, buy speed. If you feel tired of the game, close the menu and take a break — no rank fixes burnout. The review is honest that repetition is the point; upgrades only change the tempo.
Keep this hub in the nav because people search “tier list” even for a single-player toy shop. We named the category Upgrades on purpose so the dropdown tells the truth. There is no PvP ranking hiding behind a duck. There is only a buy order that respects your feet.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the questions players ask after a long sorting session.
What should I buy first?
Carry capacity, then movement speed. Timed skills wait until mixed handfuls are no longer your main delay.
Are skills always on?
No. The three headline skills are timed. Treat them as tools for confusing costumes, not as a new walk speed.
I lost my upgrades after a patch.
Patch 1’s follow-up refunded ability spend once. Buy the same order again. Details are on the patch notes page.