Pigeon: A Love Story

Pigeon: A Love Story is a simple birdflight-sim which focuses on flying around enormous scale-models of real world cities in search of one's singular pigeon soulmate. The mechanics are straightforward: fly, explore, call out to other pigeons, discover landmarks, and land on rooftops. After about ten minutes, I completely forgot about searching for a mate and instead focused on collecting landmark sightings and rooftop landings. Unfortunately, it took only another fifteen minutes for me to get bored of that too. The concept is both intriguing and unique, and flying around famous cities can be relaxing for short spurts, but the mechanics never develop much beyond their initial novelty. A charming idea with functional gameplay, but one that ran out of steam for me long before I found my soulmate. I didn't have a bad time and i didn't have a good time. Its not bad at what it does but it might be a bit too expensive for what it is. I found this experience to be a soft 5/10: neutral-neutral

this is such a cute cosy game! the npc birds have some funny quotes, the art style is beautiful, the music is chill vibes and the maps are fun to explore! i only wish you were able to land and trot about but that's not much of a big deal really! recommend for anyone wanting a cheap game to play with their partner or friend!

Definitely a game you play casually, when your mind is in or needs to be in a relaxed state. I played with a controller. I started with Amsterdam, which is basically just a flat map (literally and figuratively) but if you're from there you'll probably find it exciting. New York is definitely a lot more... touristically appealing. This is though something you can appreciate only from a bird's eye view. Fun fact, I discovered of this game's release only after finishing Wristwork's previous title "Faceminer". To think that the same dev made both of these is quite something given the stark contrast in mood between the two.

Twas a very zen experience flying over the city I've lived at my whole life and rediscovering areas whilst 'cooing' as many pigeons as I can at once! The music was very relaxing and the pigeon flying mechanics work well enough, would be fun to be able to pull off more flying tricks as you find your one, true pigeon partner. Flying around a city you don't know could also help give you an overview of the area too and help with your geography ;D All in all, fun experience and worth giving a go!

it's a screensaver, I guess if you want one this is an option.

is it sparse? yes. is it at times frustrating? yes (my first two jaunts only revealed the soulmate after a grid had been over 95% cleared D:). but! as a chill international city-explorer, it delivers the goods. a great, silly way to decompress at the end of the day. I expect to revisit this more in the future first time I've played a game somewhat randomly recommended to me on reddit. I don't plan to make a habit of that as a means for recommendations but this was some very fortunate luck