Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 07:45 pm
Bird Kind – Casual Game Review
Bird Kind is a Casual/Education/Simulation game from Runaway Play Ltd, first launched in 3rd September 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,810+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bird Kind Stand Out
Enter the enchanting world of Bird Kind and join a spirited forest community, working together to restore bird life to this magical domain. Relax in the tranquility of the forest as you nurture a captivating array of bird species, each with their own unique charm and splendor. From whimsical hummingbirds to vibrant parakeets, you’ll encounter some of nature's most exquisite birds.
Restore the forest's former glory by helping a lone tree spirit to summon new birds and raise them through their lifecycle. By clearing away the overgrowth and enabling sunlight to dapple the forest floor once more, you'll provide the ideal habitat for birds to flourish. Delight in the thrill of discovering new bird species and raising them to adulthood, while uncovering facts and learning more about the world of birds.
Progress from humble beginnings to establish a wondrous forest. Level up birds, collect feathers to summon new bird species, and meet a charismatic ensemble of forest dwellers as you complete missions and events that bestow valuable rewards!
Bird Kind is more than just a game – it’s a place to relax, unwind, and connect with nature. Find solace in the peaceful forest ambiance, be serenaded by the gentle melodies of bird song, and immerse yourself in the calm and relaxing gameplay.
Features:
• Discover real-life bird species, each carefully researched and beautifully illustrated.
• Nurture birds through their lifecycle, from vulnerable hatchlings to majestic adults.
• Collect a variety of birds and learn fascinating facts about each species in your journal.
• Expand your forest sanctuary and adorn it with enchanting decorations.
• Complete missions and events that bestow valuable rewards.
• Use gestures to interact. Drop dew to feed hatchlings, guide birds to collect gnats, and more!
• Put on your headphones to immerse yourself in the peaceful forest ambiance and bird song.
Developed and published by the award-winning studio Runaway Play.
Please note: This game is free to play but does contain in-app purchases. If you run into any issues while playing or you have any suggestions, please contact us at [email protected].
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bird Kind is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Your friend Malu is back in the forest for a limited time. Help him celebrate the festive season!
- Unlock two new bird species by helping Malu grow sprouts in the temple garden.
- New narrative! Learn about what Malu likes to do during the festive season.
- Earn new birds and decorations for your forest when you complete the event!
- Score 300 is required to play the event."
Download & Availability
Bird Kind is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game but recently Ive been unable to open the game, every time we try to it says server error on the loading screen and doesnt let us go any further.
Okay we are so happy you made a dragon game although it is not out.
Fun and cute at first but so, so tedious if you dont want to spend money.
We're a bird nut we have a pet bird named River. We made a website about birds called Birdsbeyond.com This is Leya approved! We love this game The only thing you can fix is to make the Sprout events last a bit longer (we only get to half the rewards when it ends) <:) This is such a great game the best part? No forced adds! Leya approved! Leya-.
We love this game, but during events when there is a glitch in the system missing rewards can be a bit frustrating.
We absolutely love Bird kind, and we are a bird lover ourselves and its not often you see a game like this that only includes real life species, which we absolutely love, and we had played this game every day, participated in many sprout events, had every weather set bird, and had many other birds and had cleared most of the foliage, and all of a sudden, we open the app to find that we are back at level 1!!! We really dont want to have to start over after all that time, so is there any way we can get our data back.
Love to play this game, when our emotions are running high and out of control it soothes and calms us. It is always such a peaceful play.
This game is very relaxing and the birds are the cutest things! We always played this game when we were sad or mad and it always calmed us down! A MUST TRY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ANXIETY.
Cute and calming game but its too slow. We think they should change how long it takes to expand. We also thing its interesting the birds dont collect their own coins so you have to sit and click birds individually over and over again. Easy to get bored of.
This makes us want a bird pet. Only 4 stars cause we want a bird wayyy to bad.
Some of our favorite birds arent in it! We really like Accipitriformes (most raptors), especially secretarybirds and vultures, and there arent any, just owls. Would love to see some in a future update.
We think that this game is amazing! The graphics are amazing, but we prefer the graphics to pondlife more. We also really like the sounds. We would prefer as well if it had daily rewards, but Im not gonna lie its still awesome! We do wish as well it had a lil budgie flying around giving directions like Lily in pondlife, because that would be so CUTE!!! Overall, a really good game.
This is easily one of the best customer service companies. We have been playing this for years and mistakenly sold our birds because we were in the forest tab. They were able to restore our birds with no trouble. Thank you.
We love this game so much! Its so much prettier than the screenshots with the birds moving around. A Bat sanctuary like this would be so epic.
You are only given 117 spots for birds and there is not enough storage for all the birds to complete the sprout events. So at some point, youve spent a lot of time playing such a pretty game only to max out and be unable to continue.
We have nothing but praise for this game! Only reason Im writing here is cause there is no in game way or reporting bugs or issues. Trying to collect our melodia during the event and for some reason the game just resets itself to when we launched it. Aside from that little bug love the game keep it up.
The games music is really calming and no ads which makes us happy because we hate games that give us ads.
Never been a huge mobile game person, we'd get addicted for a couple days then leave it. But this? This game has us HOOKED. It is just beautiful, the graphics, the gameplay, the birds themselves?! It gives you the kind of waiting game that we love, you can't rush into everything at all. Ashamed to say we've already spent money on this game… Keep up the good work.
All of the other reviews are wrong the birds are cute and its a rrrrrrreeeeeeelllllllyyyyyyy good game no doubt or complaint.
We like this game a lot to play and ingratiate.
Its so fun we play this. Every time we have our free time in is literally so fun right now Im hatching an unknown species.
We LOVE how there arent ads every five seconds. The birds are beautifully designed and animated. This game is also for some reason calming to us idk why tho.
This game is super amazing and relaxing ! As a bird lover and mother , Im so happy we came across this game. We feel relaxed and this is so nice keep up the great work.
Love this game- we recently lost our Quaker parrot Meeko and would love to have his species of bird be added to the game he was a green or wild type but there are several color morphs, blue, albino, lutino, cobalt, gray, turquoise. Its a very commonly kept pet bird & dearly beloved in the bird community.
We love idle games and collecting games in general. We enjoy every aspect of this game, but we have a real big bone to pick about the melodies and gnats. Typically when you upgrade something you would expect the reward to be greater. When you upgrade the birds in this game, you may get more money but the amount of time almost double every upgrade which in turn results in you making less money AND having to wait a lot longer. Same thing with the flowers that produce gnats. The free option is the best and most rewarding option at 3 every 30 seconds. But you pay 60 coins and you only get 18 in 10 minutes. Thats only .9 gnat every 30 seconds. Just makes no sense. You are better off not upgrading anything but thats not the point of the game. PLEASE FIX THIS, ITS DUMB.
Good game but the sprout events could be longer. Also when you choose to have a bird lay an egg the bird does not actually take care of the egg the egg just kinda appears in one of the nest. And the forest expansions cost too much. Great game that we enjoy playing but could be better.
This game is really nice but it does have some bugs. First of all, the game crashes every time we open the journal. Second, we couldnt find our previous account even when the app was deleted. Please fix the crashing bug and we will rate this app 5 stars.
We find the game to be cute with relaxing music. But find the controls and constant popups extremely annoying for us. Im going to pass as there are too many other games to spend our time with.
We love this game and we love collecting birds but we have been having some issues recently. We cannot open up both the Bird Book or the Bird Storage without the app crashing. Its really annoying.
Well thought out and enjoyable to play.
This game helped us improve our knowledge of the birds you should download this game its free.
Absolutely love this game and most other games from this developer! The only thing this particular game lacks is a bee fly (or similar creature, maybe a bat instead?). We would really like to see one of these added.
Amazing game, we really want to be able to give our birds head scratches.
Game keeps blinking off and theyre not trying to fix the problem . Big failure.
Im really enjoying this game but Im going to have to delete it because its the 3rd largest app we have downloaded. It doesnt seem complex enough to require that much storage. We dont get it. We opened our camera only to be told we needed to delete something to make space for more pictures, and when we checked our phone storage we were shocked to see how much space this game was taking and then remembered why we had deleted Flutter (similar game by the same creator) years ago. Its really a shame this is why we have to delete it.
We have played every style of this game this company has created. We just hope they make one for bats.
We really really love this game. Its the perfect thing to just check in on a couple times a day and slowly watch your sanctuary grow. We have such a nice time seeking out new birds and leveling them up and making us sanctuary look as nice as possible :).
The game is great when it decides to load. We have to delete and reinstall the app probably once every other week. Otherwise, when we try to load the app, it says Server Error and wont open properly. If the game makers can fix that issue, Id play this more frequently. The art style is beautiful and its very calming to play (when the app loads).
Could fall asleep to the bird music.
This is so fun you have to collect all the birds and we actually love birds now.
In the beginning everything was fine. Its a pretty cool game with a great idea, just like Flutter & Starlight, however, after hatching the first 4 or 5 birds, thats when the troubles started. Every time we go on and collect dew from a few birds, the game closes. We went into the garden, planted & did everything to get the first gift, it closed out. It keeps closing out after doing 3 to 5 things. This is getting VERY annoying. We just started this game because our 11yo plays it & wanted us to join her.
We love the game; its unique and has beautiful graphics. We do have two issues. One, it crashes frequently. Two, Ive tried several times to make in-app purchases, but it never works. It just kicks us out of the store page, so thats frustrating. Other than that, we really enjoy playing.
The game is so cute, very chill. A lot of waiting time for you to live a normal life. But the MUSIC, is phenomenal. Very relaxing.
You can only have 117 birds in the forest at a time so the rest just get tossed into storage we understand limitations, but if there can only be so many in the forest, maybe do what other games do and have different realms/different forests we can switch to instead of forcing players to put them in storage. If you expect your players to return to the game every two hours to work toward unlocking these birds in a tight timeframe, they should be able to see them flying about. Storing them or just cycling them is boring work. Having new areas to unlock keeps the game fun, Im more willing to spend real money and itll have a point of continual melodia collecting cause there really isnt anything to do with the currency once you unlock the whole forest. We also play Cats & Soup and we have over 200 cats on the screen at a time and each cat has a room you can visit so we dont entirely believe its impossible to add space to this game.
Please add a one-click- collect-all button.
We love this game!!!! We are a bird lover, having two birds of our own. We often scroll to find the perfect bird themed games and this was it.
The game doesnt pressure you to play 24/7 or spend $1000 to enjoy the game. Its a cozy cute little game that you can enjoy all day or just a few times a day. Lots of fun and the birds are adorable.
This is one of our favorite games. We love birds, this game is relaxing & educational. Beautiful graphics & sounds.
We enjoy games that dont require a lot of daily maintenance but are still rewarding and fun to play. Bird Kind fits the cozy game vibe pretty well and doesnt require you to constantly check in every few hours! You slowly uncover more forest as you progress along with exotic birds and decorations. The events are pretty fun and offer limited time birds or decorations. Ive never felt pressured to buy anything nor watch a bunch of ads. Overall our experience has been great! Id definitely recommend.
We think the game could motivate regular play by rewarding the banked acorns for free for checking in, say, for 30 days. Im enjoying it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.44
- Size: 553.09 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Runaway Play Ltd
Last updated: 8th December 2025 | Genre: Casual, Education | Developer: Runaway Play Ltd