Little Aviary

As an avid idle enjoyer, I can recommend this game to fellow players who also like this genre. It's simple: you hatch eggs, look at cute birbs, and place decorative items, which may also help you out. Breeding is also an option here, and there are three maps to house your birbs after you set them free on your screen. I do think it should have more items available for decoration, which are more habitat-exclusive, but that's just my opinion. Having the option to either have a transparent background or select a few of the existing ones made for a great variety.

This game is clearly being vibe coded with AI, most things don't work and the overall balancing is insane. The global multiplier doesn't apply globally, the quests/mating timers don't refresh on the intervals they claim, birds quickly get "stuck" in place, two birds can successfully mate and no child is born, you're capable of buying eggs without one showing up if you click too fast, and some hitboxes are different from the aesthetic design. The artwork is very nice and cute, but that is not enough to make this game worth more than a couple bucks.

I'm usually not big on Idle games but considering this is a bird game I had to pick it up. The game is honestly lovely and you can tell that the people developing it are bird nerds too. All the different birds are various species you could find in real life too. It was real cozy being able to just decorate my little place and watch all the cool birds I hatched fly around. I would have enjoyed a bit more variety in the decoration department, but I didn't mind too much. And well.. it's an idle game, you don't do much, but I had a nice time with it.

I can't recommend Little Aviary until there is an option to turn off Leaderboards. Sometimes, I just want to play a game privately and offline. At no point did I consent to having my Steam username imported into Little Aviary and displayed to others, and yet--there it is! I'm automatically set to Lionthroat in the game, automatically ranked on their Leaderboards, and cannot shut it off. The exact opposite of what I want from a desktop pet game is having mandatory competitive elements, daily quests, and so forth.

This game is good but lacks depth. There is a decent range of birds, but the decorations are extremely limited. By far the biggest issue with the game, for me, is the bird capacity. I have unlocked everything in the shop and I still don't have space to keep 1 of every variant of bird, which is the whole point I was playing for - to collect them! Surprised more people aren't mentioning this. 47 birds with minimum 3 variants each - more than 141 birds to collect , max space to store them? 105. Given the limited decorations and the fact I can't collect them all, I don't see myself opening this again when I get my final achievement, which is a real shame. Having said that, the price reflects these limitations and so I do recommend on that basis. I hope the dev will tweak this, as it seems like a huge error, I would pay more for this game than the asking if these issues were addressed.

Amazing idle game with many feathered friends to watch :-3 My pet pigeon would peck at the birds when he was watching my monitor :D

7/10: A cosy little idle game where your whole mission is basically… collecting birds. There’s nothing wildly unique here, no standout mechanic. But as an idle game, it still does its job. It’s cute, it’s relaxing, and it’s the kind of game you check in on just to see which new feathered friend showed up. Compared to other idle games, it can feel a bit bare bones~, but it’s still a good, low effort time filler if you’re in the mood for something simple.

I do enjoy this game and will complete the achievements as I’m an avid bird enjoyer. HOWEVER, it falls victim to a major pet peeve I have with some collection games in that there isn’t enough space to have every variant of every bird. There is only 3 aviaries with a cap of 35 fully upgraded when the cap should be more like 50-60. Allowing extra space would also make breeding less obsolete because it could be a method to hunt down golds and rainbows but with the current cap it isn’t very useful. if/when this is updated I’ll change my review to recommended.