Developer posts and news about this game.
Hi Birds! We're swooping in on the final stretch. After two years of working on Sparrow Warfare we're closing in on releasing this game into the wild. There's still much to do in our final months of work. So this post will give a short update on what we will add to the game's rel
New features Level Loader improvements — much faster loading & preview which enemies you'll face in the next level; normal and enemy tiles now shown on the loading screen Steam Deck support — icons now display correctly, gamepad presence is properly detected, and controls hav
Patch notes, v0.4.55 New features New unlock progression system — Some tiles need you to meet goals to become available. Stats are now tracked correctly and synced to Steam. Gameplay changes Choir now grants defence instead of song. Boss rewards now fully heal your sparrow. The N
4 new modifiers and a ton of animations are the prime features of this update. Enjoy! New features New modifier: Propaganda — one random follower is returned at the end of each round New modifier: Stuck in the Mud — discarding is disabled New modifier: No Dice — rare card probabi
This patch took half a week longer than usual because I kept finding bugs when testing the build. Sorry about the delay and we will be back to more regular updates shortly. Yes I couldn't not implement new tiles so here we are: 6 new tiles, mostly for deck management. There is al
Serendipity brought us to the perfect musician! We didn't even know how much of a difference it would make to have great music until we met Emil Smith . Emil has been wonderful to work with, and he has crafted 7 pieces of music that represent the different levels in the game. Eac
This build has more changes under the hood than meets the eye. We've tuned gameplay a tiny bit but the focus the last 2 weeks was on getting controller support working to prepare for SteamDeck support. It's still a bit rough but the full game is playable with controller now. Game
We will finish this game by Q4 2026 and until then there's a lot to do. It's interesting to make a full game as a team of two because you can experience how your focus shifts between the areas that require the most attention over the duration of the project. It all starts out wit
Sparrow Warfare is featured in Steam's Deckbuilder Fest this week! Have you tried it out yet? Our demo is sitting at 100% positive reviews with a strong median playtime, and now it’s even better with brand new music by the wonderful composer Emil Smith. Come check it out & le
This is easily the biggest update to the demo since we launched. It adds a whole new subsystem for building your little tile-powered engine: discarding for profit. We were looking for ways to encourage discarding tiles for a while and now we've finally found a good one: adding st
Patch notes, v0.4.33, 2026-04-02 Making history: we've added your "run history" to the menu so you can bath in former glory. It's still very work in progress but better than all the runs being lost in time like tears in the rain. You find the button in the bottom left corner in t
First patch of the demo and this time around we focussed on some graphical overhauls but also added 2 new tiles (Hightail and Lame Duck) that open up for new playstyles because they allow you to shoo birds into the discard pile or back into the draw pile respectively. We hope you
Now that our demo has been out for two weeks it's time to lay out how we will go about openly developing this game. There are three versions of the game that we will be working with: the main game , the demo , and the playtest builds . The main game will be launched later this ye
Exciting news for us! Today is the start of the "Games from Ireland" Steam event, and we're part of it with 50% of our 2-peron team being Irish! If you'd be curious about Ireland, you might like to learn a few bird names in Irish! So here are the names of a few of our Level 1 bir
A lot of convenience comes with this update, especially for easing in new players. There's also a new modifier that was proposed by the community and is hilariously nasty. Gameplay changes: Add Misery modifier proposed (discard a random tile when you discard a tile) The “fully he
Yes, the time is HERE and the place is NOW ! The Sparrow Warfare demo is now live and ready for your enjoyment. The demo version contains a tutorial , two different playstyles of the base game ( Way of Fire and Way of Song ), and also has Daily Flights : fresh daily challenges wi
It's a great start to the new year here, as we've brought out our third playtest build - and this one is bigger and better than any before! We've got daily flights with a leaderboard, in addition to a tutorial mode, and a good chunk of the base game across both the Way of Fire an
We've got some big news... and we're trying to keep it a secret for just a few more days! As part of Cringer's annual awards show - "The Cringeys" - over on Twitch, we'll have a special announcement. Tune in on December 31st to be the first to know! And until then, we wish you a
We're having way too much fun with this playtest, and we're not alone! The daily leaderboard is filling up each day with competitors. If you want some pointers on what to do (or what not to do in several cases!), you might like to check out our YouTube channel, where we're postin
Hot news, sparrows! Our Playtest #2 is out now, and you can play it for the next few weeks - just click on the green playtest button on the main store page. We're introducing Daily Flights : a new mode with a unique combo of modifiers each day offering fresh challenges and global