Feather Family

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    Review

Feather Family (2018) is a role-play game where you play all manner of birds at different stages of development. You select your species, design your feathers and explore different locations with other players. The game lets you pick up other players, eat things and talk to each other. It's an open game that lets players create their own stories, flocks, alliances and missions that evolve as they play.

The game encourages different sorts of play with the different biomes you can choose, each with a unique theme. The sanctuary biome, for example, offers a wildlife rehabilitation centre and veterinary clinic with cages to treat ill or injured birds. Or there's the jungle biome that's covered in trees and has a cave decked out like a hobbit hole and a treehouse with books and cages. Then there's the forest biome that has trees, ferms and traces of human activity like wheelbarrows and cut-down trees.

As players learn more about the world, they interact with each other and take on specific roles. Classes can be taught in the school room where one player takes the role of teacher. Young fledgling birds are kept safe in nests by the more mature birds. Expeditions and missions are invented for groups to go on that can be managed by joining together in a flock. Various activities offer rewards of the game's currency, Feathers, which are used to buy items and species.

The result is a game bursting with opportunities for play. It's a game that doesn't make you do anything, which makes you want to try and do everything. From the wide variety of locations to the attention to detail of how they are designed, and the hundreds of items you can find there is a lot of love and attention here.

Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Feather Family (Roblox) 3 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 2 weeks ago.