Birds Watching

A short post-apocalyptic horror-comedy walking sim in which the last human, Astolfo, lives alone on a mountain spared from a fire that destroyed humanity. Armed with binoculars, a notebook, radio and lantern, birds are observed and catalogued while their help is sought against Caio, a military antagonist who claims to be coming to rebuild society. The isolated wilderness, radio communications and lookout perspective evoke Firewatch and Fears to Fathom. Like Squirrel Stapler and Uktena 64 - Ultimate, it turns mundane wildlife observation into grotesque encounters with the non-human, gradually collapsing the boundary between observer and observed. What begins as mysterious becomes increasingly vulgar, random and aggressively edgy. Two birds launch into an extended, explicitly sexual conversation with no narrative justification, while other dialogue revolves around bodily functions and crude jokes. Notes similarly descend from environmental lore into puerile gags. The writing repeatedly substitutes shock value for horror, with rushed story beats and dialogue choices that offer little more than "yes/no/cry". Even after pursuing every ending, the narrative remains immature, while the…

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Birds Watching is a game about exploring an island in order to save yourself from an outsider. Most of the gameplay amounts to finding your way, getting familiar with how the areas are connected and communicating with birds. Some need to be found and they can only be communicated with when they're standing still. There are some collectibles (notes and plaques) but there aren't many of them, finding all the birds is a different story. There are plenty, you have a bestiary to keep track of what you have and hints for where the rest might be. There are also different endings. All of this is brought together with a plot that is not mainstream. I'm trying not to spoil things but you need to expect dirty talk, awful things being done to the player and even getting r*ped (you don't see visuals but a dialogue was very direct about that). The game found a way to keep my interest fully. The whole set-up is bizarre but it also made me curious. You often get a choice for how to handle things. Exploring the island was fun. It's not too big, it feels right. I liked some of the minor thinking involved like how to open a certain gate, what to do with a glue, how to get to a certain spot or how to…

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