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Star Birds launched earlier this month, and it is a gorgeous base builder by the same people behind Dorfromantik. While a successful launch, it had some nasty bugs, especially on the Steam Deck, where placing a launchpad while moving the mouse could cause softlocks. However, thanks to patch 0.1.2, this is now fixed with some new features.

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Most of the patch notes for Star Birds include optimization improvements, crash fixes, a new progress bar to track achievements, and some control tweaks, especially when using a gamepad. The patch also adds an autosave function that can be toggled in the settings. There are also new descriptions for the wiki entries.

While a minor patch, it contains a lot of polish, and the Steam Deck softlock fix should help the experience considerably.

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Star Birds is on sale for $17.99 until September 24th on Steam with a Playable rating, citing small in-game text and entering text requires using the on screen keyboard.

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Michael Baker
As a British guy in his mid-thirties, Michael has played and reviewed games as long as he can remember. Narrative Designer at Grimlore Games 2019-2020 (Spellforce 3 franchise, Plarium Games 2023 as Lore Editor). His favourite game genres are strategy, RPG, simulation and RTS.
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