Game: Star Birds
Genre: Strategy, Simulation
System: Steam (Windows)
Developer | Publisher: Toukana Interactive
Controller Support: None
Price: US $19.99 | UK £16.75 | EU € 19,99
Release Date: September 10, 2025
Review code provided, with many thanks to Toukana Interactive.
Star Birds is a little game about birds in space. In order to get these little birds where they need to go, you will need to collect resources, automate processes, and make new materials for building.
The Gameplay of Star Birds
Star Birds is an adorable animated game by the people who made one of my favorite games of all time: Dorfromantik. You start on a spaceship filled with birds, and you will need to research, mine, and build your way across the universe. Getting from one place to the next will require all sorts of raw materials from aluminum to water, and each can be mixed together to make new things, like glass.
The gameplay loop of Star Birds is fairly basic: you land in a new location, discover a new planet, place extractors and launch pads, then dig up what you need. You will then need to research new machines, power them, and mix raw materials together, making new materials to build bigger and better things.
As you build up your materials, you can complete quests, which give you Credits and Tech Points. These are needed to discover new planets and asteroids, build more launch pads and other machines, research new equipment, and things like that.
You keep getting more and more complex machines that connect together in more complicated ways, making each level more challenging than the last. My favorite of these is a little drone that you can drive around the planets, picking up credits from the surface.
The Pros of Star Birds
Much like Dorfromantik, Star Birds is polished, fun to play, and absolutely beautiful. The visuals are amazing, the little characters are so cute, and their noises and the other sounds in the game are great. I love the music, I love the sound design, and the animations are really endearing.
The gameplay of Star Birds is challenging but fair. It really makes you think about how best to use your current resources to make sure you can get all the items you need in the right places to create everything you need to move on. I found each level to be quite hard, but I’m not super good at these types of games. Thank goodness that you don’t have to be good at something to love it!
There is a little “Wiki” in the upper right-hand part of the screen that helps when you aren’t quite sure what to do; it breaks down how to combine materials to make new ones and gives you an idea of what all the machines do. So if you really are stuck and need a hint, you can always find one.
The Cons of Star Birds
I didn’t find any issues with Star Birds in my several hours of playing it. I didn’t experience any bugs, find anything that didn’t work, or anything missing. The tutorial is well put together, and the levels are all challenging but doable.
I just don’t have anything to put in this category, which is a very good thing.
Conclusion
Star Birds is fun, polished, cute, has adorable visuals, and challenging levels. Overall, it’s exactly what I was hoping for from Toukana Interactive. There are no bugs that I could see, and everything ran smoothly. The little bird characters are so funny, and it makes you want to help them cross the universe in their spaceship.
If you enjoy these types of games and you want to support a wonderful indie developer, you can’t go wrong with both Star Birds and Dorfromantik. I loved every level I played of Star Birds, and I look forward to playing even more in the weeks to come.
Final Verdict: Two Thumbs Up:Â
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