Flockers is an indie developed by Team17, released 19 September 2014 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android and iOS.
What Flockers is
Flockers is an indie game developed by Team17 and released in 2014. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
For over twenty years sheep have been an integral part of the worms’ fearsome arsenal. Held for years within the evil thrall of their diabolical masters the sheep are finally making a dash for freedom! Escaping the tyrannical worms, the flock must dodge its way past all manner of lethal machinery and traps as the sheep negotiate their path through the confinement of the Worms’ weapons factory out into the testing grounds and ever onwards towards pastures green. Flockers is a modern day take on the classic A to B puzzle genre with a generous helping of sinister foreboding and dark humour for good measure. Levels have been designed to challenge the player’s skill and strategic planning as…
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Flockers holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 5,101 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Flockers launched on 19 September 2014, within three weeks of Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition and Bayonetta 2. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Alien: Isolation, Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition, Bayonetta 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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