The Flock Reviews

This is a small multiplayer mini-game of tag that they've been working on since last winter, and yet it's STILL RIDDLED with bugs! I simply cannot recommend this, it's playable, but the amount of simple-to-fix bugs are just going to leave a sour taste in your mouth. Besides, the simplistic gameplay will get stale withing 4-5 rounds of playing it. This is yet another game that should have been a Garry's Mod module.

I picked up the game on sale a long time ago, when it was still "Active" but was unable to play for the first week because Life is a thing, by the time I actually had time to sit down and try it out, The game was dead. 100% No servers, No one online, Player count was nonexistant. I never even got to try this game before It went from playable to unplayable in a week.

Actually i want to vote this game positiv but... i cant. The idea was actually really cool. A game who is running out of his time, but now... the day 0 is come. The population of "The Flock" counts 0 and is not awayable to play anymore. Its sad... cause i rly want to play it. And a sad fact: The devolper tell's us that "Valve wants to take this gama away from the buyable games list"... but they doesnt. So dont buy this game for your own. The population is 0, the game is dead, but i hope a game like these will rise again.

Holy shit, this game was a complete let down and a waste of money. All there is to the game is going around as a flock creature jumping at a little alien thing called the carrier who hurts your with light. No death animation. Just a screen flash. It's so damn repetitive and boring! It's so annoying that the game was hyped quite a fair bit and was such a let down. To be completely honest, i dont think the death count will ever reach 0. why? It's such a boring game, not enough people will give a damn to play it enough.

I paid £14 for a multiplayer game i LITERALLY couldnt play... Because the community never existed. Game still being sold at full price despite...?

The Flock was once a great concept but due to the original developers not wanting to repopulate the The Flock this is surely going to raise a few eyebrows. Considering Steam are still charging real money for a game that no longer can be played. The concept was there were a finite amount of the creatures (The flock) in which players could play as. There were only ever a few hundred million from memory. In game there was a flock counter, every time a creature was killed the counter went down. Up until late the game was completely playable but now there are no creatures for the game to populate the game with so it is completely unplayable except if you wanted to just roam around and explore the world in which you played which is pretty cool but none the less completely useless as a game. You are in fact buying a game that CAN NOT be played anymore.

it feels like the devs didn't even beta test this once. there are graphic glitches and you can't even turn on fullscreen mode there are so many "string not found" errors the devs need to make a clean sweep of this game's errors before it's even playable

This game is a horrible disaster. This plays like an early access title with bugs included. Coding isn't even completed in certain parts. But don't let this deter you, however! I look at it as an Easter egg: which string of code won't be found in this part of the game? Also, the "Population" aspect of this game is ridiculous. The limit will never hit 0, same as how updates will likely never occur. This game is horrendously overpriced for the current stage it's in. Edit: I have returned! For 20 minutes I sat in a queue, waiting to play. This game has died. Do not waste your money with this game.

Meet the Flockers! Great name, an excellent name for a horror game! It's evocative, right? Birds are weird – carry diseases, vomit all over their babies, have cloacas, flock, etc. Oh, and religious heads often refer to their congregations as their “flock,” which is kind of creepy, cultish when you think about it. So the name works fabulously, we've established that. Concept is pretty cool too: twisted humanoids hunting one another, fighting one another with light in a twisted game of Red Light Green Light with a finite number of lives. Very novel! And the concept artwork? Beautiful, freaky, brilliant. Absolutely! “So why is The Flock a steaming pile of dog shit?” A hypothetical person might ask. Fortunately for you I spent $17 USD so I can find out and you don't have to! First off, it looks the part of steaming dog shit. Now that's a bit harsh of me; it doesn't look BAD, but it certainly won't be winning any monster beauty pageants. The models look goofy whether they're standing still or in motion. They just look silly; like decayed, neutered necromorphs with a slapdash texture job. The three maps currently available all sort of look the same – you've seen one gray, blocky, near linear map, you've seen them all. Secondly, it isn't scary. Now if that isn't the kiss of death for an asymmetrical horror multiplayer game I don't know what is. I mentioned in the paragraph previously that the models all look goofy, but on top of that there appear to be no death animations for carrier and flockers alike. You'll just be minding your own business or stalking some carrier and suddenly poof, the screen goes white and you're either dead or a carrier. Well that's no good – smacks of rushed laziness. Thirdly, the titular flock appears to have flown the coop. No one is playing. Now to be fair this could change. In a few hours the word might get out and The Flock's population will explode! But we don't live in Pretend Land, no. We live in cold, hard Realityville where the meals are infrequent and the winters are harsh. Fourthly, it isn't fun! It just isn't fun to sprint around the aforementioned gray maps, attacking gray beings with no death animations, to grab a Portal light gun to point at doors and gates. You know what I think? I think The Flock is one precarious step above being a scam. “Buy this game with a trivial finite lives system! If you don't it will be gone forever!” Because the developers think you're all a bunch of hoarding, hyperconsuming man-babies that will grab a questionable product because one day it might be gone. I promise you, PROMISE YOU, that The Flock's population will never hit zero. Because fuck-all people will play this ugly, rushed drek.

I really loved the concept of the game, and felt like the price was right for a game plus a code. After roughly an hour of gameplay, it was evident the game isn't quite finished. Popping textures and muddy controls were not appropriate for a fast paced horror style game. I would love to see the concept grow, but for now, I cannot recommend this title.