I'm on record as a NEON AURELIUS super fan but Sparrow Warfare is so good man. The deck(tile) building energy with out the unbearable vibe of other games. Just rescuing cool birds and attempting to pop off with daft combos.
We will add maybe 3-5 more before the game is out, aiming for 30-35, enough to create variation but not so many that you don't run into your favourites regularly.
Every day we pick 3 random "modifiers" from a list of 27 modifiers. That's about 3000 possible combinations so we're already set for about 10 years. Except of course some of them exclude others and some enforce others so it's a bit less than that.
Sparrow Warfare update 0.4.29 dropped. Bring on the Misery (yes that's a new Daily Run mode). store.steampowered.com/news/app/347...
Sparrow Warfare Demo patch notes 🥺 Patch notes, v0.4.29, 2026-03-11 🥺 The emoji above is for the Misery modifier that we added, shall we say, on popular demand. It's a pain in the peacocks's tail so you're gonna love it and hate it in equal amounts. That and adding remove fire to On Fire makes the card make more sense (and better conform to the tone of the game, I guess). The rest are little fixes and improvements that shouldn't break anything. Gameplay changes: Add Misery modifier proposed (discard a random tile when you discard a tile) The “fully heal” tile now also removes burning Bugfixes: Cleaned up the start menu a bit and new players get a Tutorial button Made the help overlay more concise Fix bug where playing X-2-4 doesn’t sort the wildtile in correctly Better hint texts and cleaned up help screen Buttons in reward screen correctly disabled now Badge for innate card now working Play button helps you a bit with summing up the tile values Change colour of healing telegraphing to distinguish it from attack New skip button in intro Add < and > to tutorial window to show previous tips Make boss hint box smaller so that question mark doesn’t show up below end turn button Unstretch snout when pig farm modifier is on Fixed Windows 10 crash-on-quit bug, hopefully
First update of our Sparrow Warfare Demo and it's quite a big one. Hop on our Discord for the even bigger secret addition to the game. discord.gg/Vs6NzKBQ
Giving @neonaurelius.bsky.social's Sparrow Warfare a try. Very cool setup, some creative stacking of attacks in this 'free the birds' class warfare card game. And I adore the music!
I was mesmerised by the mystique of not knowing where, why, what. Much better than the flimsy reasoning for sending 4 tiny creatures to hell
Very happy to hear. You’re not the first player to come with expectations that we don’t dispel properly at the beginning. Onboarding is hard! Glad you prevailed!
Fun story: our next game is by the way also about heisting hell (for souls) – very different to yours, from what I get, but a funny coincidence. We prototyped it before I'd read about yours and I even thought about changing our theme but I think hell is big enough for many games.
This thing knows what I'm up to. Guess I should try the German one too to find out if there was a cost to pay ... www.arealme.com/vocabulary-s...
Should have turned it into a habit to live a disruptive lifestyle.
When I first read the Lord of the Rings, the first book of the three volume edition was not available in the library so I just kicked things off with the second one. Didn't turn that into a habit but honestly it's not the worst way to read that series. Took me ages to figure out who Gandalf is.
"I might have gone a tiny bit overboard"
De beissen eini in Blutzer
I'm really curious what we're explaining so badly that the game is so hard for you. We try to be minimal in our instructions but obviously there's something important we're not highlighting enough or not mentioning at all. Would love to learn what that is!
I very rarely discard all cards so now I'm confused. Are you sure you're even getting the fire suit? With that, you should have 2-3 triples in your hand per turn – especially with the help of followers. And you will be able to build up a lot of fire on the beekeeper before he wakes up...
Thank you so much for your kind words. You summarise perfectly what we tried to achieve with the game (and even observed how much effort went into making the UI feel nice)
This thread is making me very happy.
On one hand this is hilarious on the other hand one of the first vampire stories ever written, Le Fanu's Camilla, is set in Styria so it must be full of vampires.
I was born in Styria in the south of Austria and I'm happy that there is finally a game about the place. store.steampowered.com/app/2974220/...
Hey, any games press want to cover our big upcoming steam event with Irish games?!?
www.imirt.ie/news/2026/3/...
Reach out via dm or eoghan@imirt.ie
Haha!
Well it makes things easier as well as harder. More opposition is dangerously but allows for opportunities. And for more rewards sooner. So it’s all about finding the balance. I often discard all 1 tiles before ending turn at the early levels. But Way of Song needs different strategies.
If only there was a fast-scaling source of energy that can power cars without oil, is by nature distributed and doesn't need to be imported over and over again every time you want it...
That is a very good decision. Enjoy the old stones! Don't forget to aimlessly wander in Rome – stumbling over random ancient buildings between medieval houses has its own charm. They got too much past to even put a plaque on everything.
Yeah I think so too. Just always makes me nervous afterwards that I can't just say things without trying to be a bit provocative and/or funny. The article is great, thanks for writing it. Also makes me happy to not be alone with my life choices :)
Oh boy I hope people are familiar with my brand of humour by now. Great article! First time I'm a Danish developer which is technically correct since about 10 years but still feels funny.
Hope these ideas how to play help with getting started!
Have you tried to discard low tiles, so when you end your turn you get better tiles? Have you received wild tiles from the followers behind you? Have you played the wildtiles as the strongest tile possible (2-3-X is often better than X-2-3)? Did you get your flame tiles as soon as possible?
New week, new Steam festival: we're definitely more underdog (underbird?) than wholesome but, hey, what is a card game if not a wholesome affair?
Narrator voice: you've never seen real card sharks, have you?
