123 hours
3770 eggs
what works:
+ buy eggs and click them to hatch, discover birds that accrue money so you can buy more eggs
+ the economy is on a funny scale
+ smooth, beautiful and simple design
+rainbow and gold versions to chase
+ cute decorations
+ hourly and daily quests
+ really fun celebration pop up when you find a new bird
+ favorite buttons for birds
+ sell unlocked birds batch delete option
improvements I would love to see develop:
+ Nicknames for birds
+ there could be more decoration options, but this has already been addressed a little. However, the new items have yet to show up in my shop. I have checked since the dev posted, so not sure that if was a preview or what
+ I don't like how some eggs will spontaneously hatch when I'm clicking. I believe the hatch potions are one time use, and I haven't bought one of every level. Every sort of egg will burst on me (sure, slowly and one at a time, but still) if I'm not fast enough to keep clicking and tying up the population (my aviary is all full LOL). I have been managing my birds and I like to watch them hatch. Wish there was a way to toggle this off.
+ clicking eggs is in the same zone as/shares a plane with furniture and birds, which gets clogged up and jumbled. So, sometimes you select them, just not ideal
+ I feel like the odds are shaky... I have hatched thousands of eggs, and still never seen a rainbow peacock, though I have 6+ rainbow chickens, turkeys and pheasants. no rainbow kiwi. update: I did get these two birds, and I was so psyched, yay!!
+ There are enough breeds of birds and enough variants that my menageries are perpetually full. I feel like 35 birds per area is not enough. One cannot collect every breed this way, let alone every breed and it's 4 patterns. I was hoping to have a cool, huge collection, but alas. I have quadrillions of dollars but I have to sell every golden chicken I hatch now, because I already have 4 and I want that rainbow peacock. It sort of steals the joy of a cool hatch to have to sell it to open more eggs. I have all this money and for nothing really at this point.
+ I wish this wheel of potions didn't pop up on an accidental right click
+ The stats portion of the game is tracking lots of interesting stuff. I'd love to see a log of eggs I hatched. Also a tally of the breeds/patterns in the codex.
+ I'd love to see leaderboards for each reported stat
+ Sometimes I will click on three coin pouches in a row and be like, "oo, I should check my quests!" only to find that yes, I do have a collect coins quest, but it says 0/6 with 30 minutes left. They refresh every hour or so, I noticed, but one at so many minutes is not recently refreshed.
+ currently, you can sort your collection by name, value and rarity. I wish you could sort by recently hatched, as well.
+ I wish there was a popup log I could toggle on to list the birds born/hatched. When they hatch they immediately begin walking or flying around, and I would prefer to know who I'm selling, specifically, when I surrender to the sell all unlocked button. Ps. Thanks for that
+ Bird breeding is pointless after you have some cash, because you'll just buy eggs. Each egg is cheap compared to selling the bird in it, or what the bird inside could earn for you aviary, so once you can just buy batches of eggs you do. Breeding birds just to sell them isn't fun for me, personally. Also, any breed quests are dead, then, too.
+ Maybe it's greedy, but more areas on the map? :)
original review:
I like birds and idlers, so this was an easy choice when I found it in the store. It has not disappointed. I look at these lil birds, soaring around, perching on my fairy lights, and it's nice. I like to click click click the eggs to hatch them. I want to collect all the versions of the birds- I especially want a rainbow peacock. I saw the Dev field requests and make changes, so I think that they're a standup human, and they've made something worth your $4. Have the bird collection you deserve, and make silly amounts of money.
