2026-09-11 17:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Sienna
Hello Birders!Get ready to grab your friends and your binoculars and jump back into Flock Around for its newest map, Cardinal Cove!This map is based on the east coast of North America, with 40 brand new birds to find and photograph across three coastal biomes.This DLC also features fun new animal themed cosmetics to dress up with and really blend in to the local fauna.The next thing on the horizon for Flock Around is mod support, where we plan to give you all the ability to add birds and more to the game!Thank you all for your support, DLC releases like this help keep our studio going! - Frien
2026-08-13 21:02 UTC · Community Announcements · Friend Shaped Games
Hello Birders!We have just released Steam Community Items for Flock Around!Now you can earn trading cards of some of your favourite birds, craft cool badges, and buy beautiful new profile backgrounds in the points shop: https://store.steampowered.com/points/shop/app/3618030We'll have more news coming soon about the next map and mod support!
2026-08-05 19:00 UTC · Community Announcements · Friend Shaped Games
Hello Birders! Today we have a big update for you that has been in the works for a while. This patch addresses a lot of the feedback we've heard over the past couple of months and we hope it makes the game feel even better! We are really proud of Emu Island but we felt like it was missing something, so we've added birds to increase the content in the DLC. For those of you running out of ways to get money and having a lack of things to do once the guidebook is complete, we have a brand new quest system! Finally for those still on the shiny hunt, we have a major quality of life improvement to ho
2026-07-16 16:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Sienna
Hello Birders! Emu Island, the first DLC for Flock Around is available NOW! We hope you all enjoy exploring the new biomes and encountering all the birds! 1.1.8 New Feature: Pins (Base Game) There is a new cosmetic type: The PinInstead of buying pins, you unlock them by completing the Big/Giant/Enormous Year achievements as well as the Shiny Birds achievement.If you already have these achievements in Goose Lake, you will already have some Pins.A new batch of pins will be added for each new map (including Emu Island!)Pins are NOT required for the "Dripped Out" achievement.New Map: Emu Island Wi
2026-06-15 16:59 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
Hello birders, this morning we have another update for you that adds a much requested item! 1.0.61 New Item: Selfie Stick!There's a new item that can be found at the Bluff's shop.This way you can take photos of your cool outfits, snap a picture of a bird on your head, and take selfies with friends!Linux Native BuildWe have an official Native Linux build!Hopefully this means a better, more stable experience for Steam Deck(*) and Linux Desktop players! (*) Steam Deck seems to only see the Proton (Windows) build still, we might need Valve to re-evaluate the game to get the Linux build showing up
2026-06-08 17:04 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
Hello Birders! We've been hard at work on a new region map (we'll have more info soon!), but ahead of that we have a new update for you all. By popular demand, the American Woodcock (along with a few other birds) dances its way into Goose Lake!Patch 1.0.47NEW BIRDS5 new birds have found their way into Goose Lake!We've got: Black Chinned Hummingbird, Golden Eagle, Mourning Dove, Pileated Woodpecker, and the vagrant (but requested so often it would be silly NOT to include...) American Woodcock.(spoiler on the last bird in the list): American Woodcock has a special animation for walking along the
2026-05-13 01:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
Hello Birders! Today we have another patch that includes a variety of quality of life features, requested tweaks, and more bug fixes! We just wanted to give everyone a heads up that things might slow down a bit until mid-June, as now that the game is in a stable state for the vast majoirty of players, the team is going to take some much needed time off. We'll still be monitoring the server and steam discussion forums, but don't expect us to reply with the speed we have been the last few weeks. Patch 1.0.31 Major Feature: Warp Totems!Each biome's shop now has a new section. Currently the only i
2026-05-07 01:01 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
Hey Birders, We have fixed the duplicate-host bug that a lot of you have been seeing. We've decided to package the fix with a bunch of other tweaks that we had in the hopper. Hope you enjoy! 1.0.28 Small FeaturesProactive Save Backups: The game now makes rotating backups of your save data, so if you lose power or something while the game is mid-save, you should still have a backup to fallback on.Retroactive Save Backups: There is now a debug command redevelopallphotos that will read every photo you've ever taken and instantly runs it through the develop-o-tron. This will recover a good chunk o
2026-05-05 17:29 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
Hey Birders, we have a new patch that adds a lot of fixes, stability improvements, and a much-needed moderation tool. We're going to be doing more bug-bashing in the near future. 1.0.27 Major Feature: Banning You can now "Ban" players from your lobby, preventing them from being able to rejoin.When you ban a player, they will not be allowed to join any lobby you host ever again.You can unban them manually in the developer console with banlist (to list IDs of all banned players) and unban (using the ID from the first command). I don't expect you'll want to unban people often so this is high fric
2026-05-01 16:21 UTC · Community Announcements · Sienna
Happy Friday birders! We've got a MASSIVE Friday Update for you! Flock Around Version 1.0.21 In this update we've added Public Lobbies, Text Chat, and FIVE NEW BIRDS!! Major Feature: Public LobbiesWhen you select Join Game you will now see ALL public lobbies.Your friends' lobbies will be bubbled to the top and highlighted in green.When hosting a lobby, you can select "Lobby Code Only" and it will not show up in the public lobbies list.Major Feature: Text ChatYou can now press the "Text Chat" keybind (defaults to T) to start typing a message.When certain gameplay events happen (shiny spawns, bi
2026-04-27 21:56 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
1.0.14Level FixesFixed some rock colliders, again (shakes fist!)The cave to Snow no longer has holes that peek out into the sky boxOne of the Snow Point of Interests is no longer culled by Detail DistanceThere is no longer a gap between Marsh and the main Lake water.Birds ChangesBirds should land on your head more often! As of late they've been doing it basically never.Changed alpha blending settings on birds (this will get rid of the black outline that birds have, maybe fixing some graphical bugs on macOS)Fixed necks on back-facing poses of Swans, Bufflehead, and Hooded MerganserMiscAdjusted
2026-04-26 21:19 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
Hey Birders, we've got yet another patch that should bring even more stability to your play sessions!Patch 1.0.13Bird ChangesAdjusted Common Grackle sprite.Common Loon no longer waddles on the shore, it was pointed out to us that Loons only take off from water and this is easiest way to represent that in our game.Graphical adjustments to various bird necks in back-facing poses.Adjust center-point for Front/Back facing poses of the Trumpeter and Mute Swans (was lower on the body, now it's more centered near the neck).Similar adjustment made to the Canada Goose.Level ChangesA LOT of fixes to Goo
2026-04-25 17:07 UTC · Community Announcements · Secret Plan Games
Hello birders!Thank you so much for making this such an awesome launch. Thank you for your bug reports, steam reviews, and kind words ❤️Yesterday and this morning we have put out two hotfixes that address the majority of issues that have come up for some players (thankfully these seem to be only affecting a small group of players, but we want to make sure everyone has the best experience possible!) Flock Around Version 1.0.7 and 1.0.8We upgraded our internal engine. This should fix that darn Black Screen bug that some people have been seeingEnabled Occlusion Culling on many more surfaces, for
2026-04-24 16:58 UTC · Community Announcements · Sienna
Hello Birders! We are thrilled to finally get Flock Around into your hands!Goose Lake is now yours to explore!Unlock 6 biomesFind 60 birdsUpgrade your gearBuy whistles and birdseedPut on an outfitFind points of interestGather your friends and go birding together! In the next few weeks we plan to add:More birdsNew itemsText ChatQuest systemThe ability to show photos to friends in gameQuality of life improvementsBeyond that, we are getting started on the next region map which will have new biomes and many new birds! Thank you all for supporting Flock Around, we’ll see you at the lake! Secret Pla
2026-03-02 17:57 UTC · Community Announcements · Sienna
Hey birders! We've got another Demo Update. This is a small-ish update that's mostly just refinements and fixes.Major Features:We made a bunch of changes to how ratings work... again.Each bird now has custom tuning that determine it's "size" and "center" and various other parameters. 3 star photos on Canada Goose In Flight and a Soaring Osprey should be more consistent now.Your Guidebook should maintain it's existing ratings.Minor Features3rd Person Mode is now bound to F5 (no longer needs a console command!), can be rebound in the settings"Birds Identifier" Upgrade no longer requires the bird
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