Birdigo - bird word game

If your friends won’t play Scrabble with you ‘cause you’re constantly beating them with enormous vocabulary this game is perfect for you. Oh, and it has cute birdies)

I've got 9.1 hours in Birdigo so far and can easily recommend it. It's a chill, but challenging word game with a deck building twist. The easiest way I can describe it is Scrabble, Wingspan and Wordle had a cozy little bird themed baby. The deck building is what really sets it apart. I've played plenty of word games over the years, but adding deck building gives it another layer of strategy without taking away from what makes word games fun in the first place. The presentation is simple, the audio fits the cozy atmosphere well and performance was flawless. It feels like a relaxing bird word journey. After all, bird is the word. 🐦 My only real complaint is the shuffle key being bound to **ALT**. I'd much rather see that on **SPACE**, but that's me constantly wishing more games would stick to simpler, more universal controls. It's a tiny gripe in an otherwise polished experience. If you're into Scrabble, Words With Friends, Words on Stream, or just enjoy word games in general, I think this is an easy recommendation. At $9.99, I think it's a great value. No DLC, plenty of replayability and it's actually a pretty good workout for your brain. If you're not sure the deck building aspect is for you, maybe wait for a sale. Otherwise, I don't think you'll regret picking this one up.

This game should have been a sure bet for me as someone who loves both Balatro and Scrabble. Unfortunately I don't love Birdigo, I'm not sure I even like it. The issue for me is that this game is too much Balatro and too little Scrabble. I don't get anywhere without getting the very few useful upgrades. There is obvious synergies, no skill reqluired to figure out which are the best combinations. The chance of having a run with the right upgrades being offered is small. As a Scrabble player I dislike the fact that most tiles are only worth one point by default. Sure, a J or Q is worth more, but often letters like K or Y are not worth much, if anything more. So the best strategy is to build seven letter words with lots of vowels and letters like t, r etc. There is little point in trying to make words with the Q or J. I'll give this game a thumbs up, because it isn't bad, and I like to support indie developers. But for me, this is one of the less enjoyable word games on Steam, and I've played most of them.