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Flock Around cover art

Flock Around

Friend Shaped Games · 2026-04-24

Steam

CasualIndie

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Apr 24, 2026 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 24, 2026 (Mac)

Flock Around is a multiplayer bird watching game. Explore a nature sanctuary with friends, snap pictures of birds, and fill out the guide book!

Flock Around is a 2026 Casual and Indie game priced at $3.99, with an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment from 98% of 2015 reviews.

98%
positive of 2.0k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$3.99
steam price (US)
Flock Around is a 2026 birdwatching and photography simulation video game developed by Friend Shaped Games and published by Friend Shaped Games and Outersloth. It was released for Windows and macOS on 24 April 2026. The game takes place in a nature reserve, where players photograph birds, fill in a guidebook, and buy items and cosmetics with rewards earned from photographs.

Health check

Cooling
  • · 459 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~57/week).
  • · Review velocity down 65% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 13% of 9,739 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 40k–91k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 2,015 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2026-06-08)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 3 of 7 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
62962920262026Week of 2026-04-24: 629 positiveWeek of 2026-04-24: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-08: 140 positiveWeek of 2026-05-08: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-05-15: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-05-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-22: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-05-22: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-29: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-05-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-05: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-06-12: 88 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 64 positiveWeek of 2026-06-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-26: 86 positiveWeek of 2026-06-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-03: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-07-10: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-17: 55 positiveWeek of 2026-07-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-24: 36 positiveWeek of 2026-07-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-31: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-08-07: 3 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$4.99$3.992026-04-242026-08-062026-04-24 — best price $4.492026-05-08 — best price $4.992026-06-08 — best price $3.992026-06-22 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $4.992026-08-06 — best price $3.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

220392026-05-13 — 113 pageviews2026-05-16 — 95 pageviews2026-05-19 — 51 pageviews2026-05-22 — 55 pageviews2026-05-25 — 81 pageviews2026-05-28 — 39 pageviews2026-05-31 — 58 pageviews2026-06-03 — 58 pageviews2026-06-06 — 96 pageviews2026-06-09 — 95 pageviews2026-06-12 — 90 pageviews2026-06-15 — 101 pageviews2026-06-18 — 97 pageviews2026-06-21 — 161 pageviews2026-06-24 — 156 pageviews2026-06-27 — 140 pageviews2026-06-30 — 132 pageviews2026-07-03 — 99 pageviews2026-07-06 — 119 pageviews2026-07-09 — 104 pageviews2026-07-12 — 83 pageviews2026-07-15 — 166 pageviews2026-07-18 — 120 pageviews2026-07-21 — 77 pageviews2026-07-24 — 45 pageviews2026-07-27 — 80 pageviews2026-07-30 — 48 pageviews2026-08-02 — 56 pageviews2026-08-05 — 95 pageviews2026-08-08 — 108 pageviews2026-08-11 — 94 pageviews2026-08-14 — 80 pageviews2026-08-17 — 135 pageviews2026-08-20 — 104 pageviews2026-08-23 — 91 pageviews2026-08-24 — 119 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

19
achievements tracked
96.2%
earned "Gold Star!"
25.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing2 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Polish

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8335%19

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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