Grand Pigeon's Duty

recently picked this up after owning it since 2016. my feelings for it are positive so i can't bring myself to give it a negative review, but it's sort of hard to recommend without a massive asterisk

the story captured me significantly more than i expected. it has drama, it has action, it has cumbentbert snapersnatch. but MAN the gameplay is absolute ass. you are moving, the people are moving, you have to be precise, i wonder wtf the devs were thinking when they added freaking WIND to this equation. but i'm also so charmed by the literal bad B movie of a plotline that i 100%ed it, and so, i will say: if you can accept literal pigeonshit gameplay, are a masocist, or really like bashing your head against the wall, perhaps it'll be worth it to laugh at pigeon jokes. if you're normal, sane, and have a better use of 4 hours, i'd probably find something else to do

A quirky and humorous game where you play as a pigeon completing bizarre missions. The controls are a bit wonky, but the offbeat charm and fun objectives make it an amusing diversion. Perfect for a laugh and a break from serious gaming.

Fun concept, great dialog, but the gameplay is just way to basic for it to be enjoyable for more than 5 minutes.
Pretty sad since the entire concept and the humor is epic.

For $1, this is more annoying than fun.

That tag defining this game as "Difficult" is no joke. This might appear to be a funny indie gag game, but you have to factor in the direction of your bird flying with the wind direction and the probability of a bystander to land your intended hit. Also, changing the easy/hard difficulty has a slight change, but it isn't significant enough to notice. If you want a game that focuses on strategy and chance with a simple concept, then good luck.

After the first 11 levels and choosing a side, you won't be able to select those completed levels with that pigeon. It must be a bug, but that's annoying if you want to go for a different ending in that side. Also, when you replay that decision level to sway the story, it'll remove the already done levels in the previously done bird. Good programming there, guys.

You can't skip dialogue, meaning you are forced to let it run until it ends so you can continue the long winded story. C'mon, h-games nailed this.

Only positive I can toss in is the shameless TV and movie references.

It's a funny game, and has bird's which is cool. But the game isn't good. My main gripe is that there is a wind mechanic and your poop is different weights. So you never really know where it's gonna land. So it feels like more a game of chance than actual skill.

TL;DR - Funny bird game, but game is bad.

Even if I enjoyed some parts of the game I can't reccommend it. Some parts are poorly executed, new mechanics never seen before are introduced at the end of the game and poorly explained, therefore there are sudden difficulty spikes because you don't know what the game wants you to do. I wasted one hour trying to figure out how to fight Irwin.
I like the concept of pidgeon shooting poo to the pedestrians. I would suggest to the developer to stick with this mine mechanic for the entire game and develop it furter, for example. Adding more movements and better control over the pdgeon. And making falling poo more predictable.

since Steam doesn't allow me to give it a 5 out of 10, i'm forced to make it negative.

This game is one dimentional and frankly boring, it may as well be a mobile game. The only redeming quality is the character art, but it's ruined by terrible writing for those characters which you cannot skip.

This game is a masterpiece. Truly a gem hidden from the average consumer. It was great but there where times where they simply focused too much on the exposition. Not that it was bad but it was too long conversations when i really just wanted to get right into the action with no rubber.

Very nice game, it has all the rpg elements of a AAA game but is still only 3 euro, very good. Could spend countless days on this game.
:-)

Neutral Recommend.
Game of physics, reflexes and prediction of bird faeces dropzone.

Coarse large pixel graphics.
Monotonous and dull music.
Much readings of large and ugly wordings.

Prologue of first 11 stages, before splitting into three other main story lines,
repeatable at stage eleven after each completion.

Gets easier when used to the wind direction,
pacing the distance against the background, either to hit passerby or static targets.



Neutral Recommend.
Playable but No idea how this game appeared in my library.
Played simply to complete, glad it was over.

Fun little game, nothing crazy here but it's well worth the price. I got about 3 hours of fun out of it for the price of a burger. A burger is like 3 minutes of enjoyment. Ergo, buy it, worse case scenario you wasted a couple bucks.

BEST GAME EVER MADE! As soon as I started playing this piece of art I fell in love! The way you poo on cars and people gives me the greatest feeling inside, it's like no other game i have ever played. Im planning to name my children after the characters in this timeless masterpiece.

... tough call. Do you like quirky indie games? Is the price under a dollar? If so, then mayyybe. The gameplay is pressing spacebar to hit targets, but there is a odd little story and it does run well on ubuntu linux. This lone wolf developer took his work seriously, and I appreciate those efforts, in these light-hearted games. I think the steam store screenshots tell the whole story, so take a look, before purchasing.

When I had finished 4 of the 5 routes, I thought I had experienced basically all of what the game had to offer and I was tempted to rate this game positively despite not actually wanting to recommend it. The dev left a note in the start menu, explaining that this was a one man effort, they didn't have the money to pay for professional translations, the fact that the story was equally as important as the gameplay etc. so I felt a little bad about giving a negative rating. It isn't a terrible game after all. But that Cipher ending, sitting through all the unskippable text and endings in one sitting, and trying to get the last achievements did it for me.

The Cipher ending.
You have to bomb (poop on) 5 guards twice (their health regens) with limited ammo that for some reason there isn't a counter for on this level, and then you have to shit in the president's kid's mouth. I'm not kidding but I wish I was. That's absolutely disgusting and completely unnecessary. Maybe this is funny to some people but it's rather immature. It left more than just a bad taste in my mouth.

In another route you're invited to a billionaire's penthouse pool where your brother is throwing a party for you. Apparently the other rich birds like it when they're pooped on. So then you need to poop on the guests in the pool but not too much because they'll get sick. And when you're done, a few birds like it so much they invite you to their own houses for you to do it to them in private. I don't know man, that kinda sounds like the dev has a scat kink or a very strange sense of humour. No kink shaming but I mean, this is a bit much and just not necessary? I don't think many people got to this point judging by the global achievements (0.8%) and that there is basically only one review that mentions this.

Pros:

• Pixel art is nice, colour scheme is different but not a bad thing.
  
• Simple, straight-forward controls.
  
• Music is decent although I guess it's actually pretty good if I spent hours listening to it while frustrated and don't hate it.
  
• Several characters with their own distinct personality and appearance.
  
• Three different characters to choose from with a total of 5 different endings.
  
• Humour. Bird-related puns etc.
  
• Some interesting plot points.
  
• Note from the dev in the start menu.
  

Cons:

• Slow and unskippable text. The text between levels is all dialogue so it's similar to a visual novel. I understand that the dev wants to relay the importance of the plot so they made the text unskippable but similar to a vn, there should be the option to skip already seen text. Especially if restarting a level means having to sit through the same text over and over. It's not a few sentences either, it's paragraphs between different characters. Not to mention the fact that the text doesn't all appear at once but rather, individual letters appear one at a time and there's no skipping that either. Most of my time spent playing this game was sitting through text, pressing the spacebar to try and hurry it up to get to the game play.
  
• Agonisingly slow ending text. Once you've completed one route, there's an epilogue. No problem with that except the text doesn't appear all at once. It s l o w l y drifts up your screen at the rate of 5 seconds per line with about 5 words per line. There are paragraphs of text. Of course, no skipping that either. I don't understand, it's like the dev just wants players to stay in game for as long as possible. There's no reward for staying until the end; you get achievements as soon as the text starts to appear and then you can just exit to the start menu so you don't need to know the ending to the story. There's no explanation for the text being as slow as it is.
  
• The font. It was okay at first because it was a nice change, but reading a crap ton of text with that font makes my eyes bleed. The letter 'i' looks like an 'l' (doesn't appear that way in the screenshots for some reason), the letter 'c' looks like an 'o' etc. 'Billion' looks like 'bllllon' and 'facts' looks like 'faots'. I understand the font choice because it matches but the pixel graphics but it's not great for clarity, especially with the not-so-great English.
  
• Countless spelling and grammatical issues. Nothing more to add. Every time I saw an error I just wished I could correct it. I still want to correct them all. You do get the general idea of what is being said though. These days it isn't that difficult to get someone to edit text. No need to pay for a professional translator, the dev could pay someone $40 to simply edit their translations through Upwork or something but I don’t know where they’re located so I can’t say if there are restrictions on certain things.
  
• Difficulty. Very little room for error. It's one thing to need to hit stationary targets like cars while the wind is affecting the trajectory of your "bomb" but when the targets move at different speeds and in different directions while you are also constantly moving, with no/ little room for error? It gets quite frustrating. And that's on easy difficulty. Really no reason for a hard difficulty although another reviewer said there wasn’t much of a difference anyway. One of the most difficult levels is level 11, just before the main story diverges into three, depending on which character you side with. It's not even halfway through the game.
  
[*]Weird locking and unlocking of levels. Naturally puzzle games, levels are locked until you reach them. Except once you finish a route from one of the three characters, all the other levels unlock. Meaning, you can jump straight to the end and choose the last level for the other characters and get the achievements. Doesn't make sense. If the story was so important, we'd have to unlock each level as we reached it so we’d have to read the story.

Speaking of story, I don’t really know what to say about it. Basically humans aren't feeding pigeons anymore so birds are starving and have decided to poop on people and cars etc. to get people's attention. Different routes end with differing outcomes of course so there isn't much I can say without spoiling. There are some religious aspects which I wasn't really fond of. Main argument being religion is good and helps people (birds), especially the poor ones, while the rich are greedy, have black souls and deserve death etc. The good ending is siding with religion and the bad is going against it. It really isn’t being subtle.

Would I recommend? No, not at this stage at least unless the cons actually sound appealing to you or you’re just interested. I feel like most of the positive reviews are from people who didn't get very far in the game and just review every game they play or they got it for free and feel obliged to recommend it. Again, it's not terrible but it’s not great and I wouldn't do this again. There's quite a bit of work that can be done. The dev should read reviews and spend time making fixes/ improvements rather than creating a hentai puzzle game. Quality over quantity but I guess whatever will make profits. The last update was in August, 2017 that mentioned mobile releases and easier difficulty but that has yet to be seen and it's nearly been a year.

Not a very good game.

It's cheap, it's full of memes, it's simple and frustrating and boring.

All you do is push left and right to move the bird left and right. It's simple, no physics, left and right. And you push a button to fire, which goes diagonally left or diagonally right depending on the wind.

You have a quota of walking people and stationary vehicles to crap on.

You also have a very limited amount of poo. And if you miss, or hit the wrong things so you can't win a level, the game doesn't tell you you're in an unwinnable situation, it waits until you've used up all your bullets then tells you. Also it doesn't show you what your quota is on-screen so you can count them off.

So it's frustrating. And simple. And not very good.

Do yourself a favour and find a C64 emulator and a copy of Potty Pigeon. It was a much better game. It's probably 30 years old now, but was a much better, much more featureful, arcade game than this. The music was better too.

This game... I have limited ammo and I don't give enough shits to carry on playing.

Surprisingly difficult! I had fun playing this game, but you only have room to mess up very few times (1-4 usually). Which means that you'll have to restart multiple times to complete a single level. The soundtrack is pretty good and the English translation is impressive!

7/10

Who knew a modern Potty Pigeon would have a politically charged storyline with multiple branches that dealt with classism and the crushing realities of a greed focused society.

Also you get to poop on people.

(not so wild about that because it's really tricky once wind gets introduced, but you can figure out a rhythm eventually)

This is the proof that you can take any concept for any creation and roll with it.

Literally the entire game it's about taking dumps on cars as well as on people, you play as pigeons.

The game has a surprising story with a lot of depth attach to it, something about oil replacing peoples food, something of the sort, the whole thing it's a very big joke but it's hilarious.

I guess the game really gets repetitive after a while mainly because it's a very "arcade" game, the objectives really don't vary as much, it just gets a tiny bit more difficult as you go along, there are some bonus levels in which you get a lot of ammo, "bombs" as the game calls them, and you can pretty much just mash the spacebar button ruining everyone's day, so it's fine I guess, get it on a sale tho, I doubth anyone will finish this game unless they push and force themselves through.

There is not alot to talk about when it comes to a game where you control a pigeon and your main goal being to take a dump on various targets but sometimes the short and sweet games are the most enjoyable.

I bought this game with a coupon I received for crafting Steam badges and I think despite its broken English text/grammar I would genuinely recommend the game to anyone.

There are a decent amount of story missions in the game that branches off into three separate stories. They are all very well thought out despite the main goal being to pigeon poo over everything. The missions are not all the same and vary a little with mechanics which held my interest for longer. Missions are also relatively challenging too when taking into consideration limited 'ammo' and wind speed/direction.

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It's cute and funny. The art is great and the broken English is endearing. The 2nd or 3rd level after the tutorial the difficulty spikes and it becomes all but impossible.

The problem is that the game wants perfection while having random failure coded into it. You're given very little room for error (12 bullets for 10 targets, for example - oh but there's a sob story about a little baby squab starving so actually it's 10 bullets for 10 targets). You are a moving object (a pigeon) trying to hit moving objects (people), Your bullets (poos) are affected by wind, which blows either left or right (you're told which direction at least). The degree to which your bullets are affected by wind is based on the direction your pigeon is flying, and the poo's own weight - heavy poos fall faster and are pushed by wind less, while little poos fly all over the place.

The problem is that the weight of a poop is completely random and unknowable to the player, so ultimately whether a shot hit or misses comes down to luck. You can try to mitigate the RNG in various ways, like lining up your shots perfectly, or trying to aim for "clumps" of pedestrians in the hope a randomly heavy poop will hit someone you weren't aiming for, but ultimately it stopped being fun the 50th time I had to reload a level becuase a shot was randomly a different weight and went flying off in a direction I wasn't aiming.

If the game were more forgiving with ammo, or more consistent with firing, I'd have recommended it. As it is, I ragequit after about 25 minutes (steam didn't record my playtime for some reason?). It's worth a buck for the story and art alone, but the gameplay stops being fun very quickly.

I really wanted to like this game. It's silly, it has a Tommy Wiseau pigeon, and it costs $1. But some things are just broken.

The entire game consists of flying left or right and pressing space to poop on things. Sometimes the things move, and sometimes there is wind, so your poop moves. The dialogue between levels is in broken English that is usually understandable if you take an extra second or two. All of that is fine. It's funny, simple, and endearing.

The problem is the one difficulty mechanic (admittedly I didn't get very far) is wind. Wind makes your poop move, and wind changes direction, except it doesn't. Currently there's a wind indicator that shows you whether wind is blowing left or right. Wind always blows right, even if the indicator says it's blowing left.

Also apparently it's just a browser game, because every time I hit F12 to take a screenshot (the default keybind in Steam) a Chrome debugger window pops up over the game.

On one hand it's $1 and it's entertaining enough that I kind of don't care. On the other hand I just paid $1 for a browser game with one mechanic that doesn't even work.

This game is great on many levels, if you think that this is another pooping simulator, no it's not, there is a deep plot (and memes):

+Visuals: Simple pixel art, nothing special, but nothing bad as well.

+-Sound: 8-bit music tracks, I like some of them, but some of them making me nervous for no reason so it's a +-. Sound effects are okay.

+Gameplay: Ok so first of all this game has a nonlinear structure with multiple endings. You face the story of pigeons hard times, full of various memes with a Russian flavoring on top. Hard difficulty is hard because of the random winds, normal difficulty is still hard but beatable comparing to the hard one. Anyway, this game is pretty challenging.

+Steamcards - make the game nearly free to play if you take into account the low price.
+Steam achievements.
-Game bugs here and there and you see the developers fixing their game at least twice a day with all those patches, I guess it's the early release problems, which will be gone later.

Tl:DR - it is a good buy, the game is cheap, challenging and has a nice story.