You play as Finch, a small birdie, who is getting back into the dating scene after being heartbroken. Your friend introduces you to Bumbird, a dating app for lonely avians, and now it's up to you to pick a partner and woo them!

Visuals

Lovebirb is super cute! There are all kinds of different birds for you to date, and their profile pictures are quite hilarious. Each one also has a unique date location, which is mostly a static background with a few moving elements to go with the beat.

Sound Effects + Music

The music is fine. For a rhythm game, you'd think Lovebirb would have some killer tracks. It's just fine, and the beat of the music doesn't even match the beat of the gameplay.

Gameplay + Controls

The controls in Lovebirb are awful. There is no other way to put it. I had originally quit during the tutorial, because I kept failing. There is no direction and too much on the screen to intuitively know what to do. There are pulsing rings in the center, which is also where the 3-2-1 countdown is shown, so it would make sense that that would be the beat you use. It's not. I only found that out from reading negative reviews.

You actually wait for the arrows to be ringed in purple and shrunken around them. But don't press too early, or too late, or you fail. This is the only rhythm game I've ever played where if you don't get perfect notes, you just fail. How is that fun? It would have been more interesting to get a score based on how you did and that determines how the date went. Not a pass-fail system with no room for errors.

Replayability

If you happen to enjoy the gameplay of Lovebirb, it is replayable, since you can date several birds and commit to any of them. Successfully wooing a single bird was enough for me. I wish I could get their stories without actually having to play.

Overall

I actually loved the dialogue and story in Lovebirb. It's genuinely funny and charming. The game is just hindered by a poorly executed rhythm mechanic and clunky interface.

It's a rhythm dating game where you play as Finch, a bird that recently experienced a breakup and is now looking for someone new. At the start of Lovebirb, Finch's best friend introduces him to a dating app to help him find a life partner. To answer a date's question successfully, the player must input a button sequence in time with the visual indicator for whichever of the two answers are correct. The rhythm-based gameplay is simple but fun; however, the timing can feel awkward at the start. It took me a couple of tries to get through the tutorial. The conversations with dates can be fun to read, with each bird resulting in a different ending. Overall, Lovebirb is a short game with a cute story with multiple endings that can be fun for about an hour or two if the player can get the timing of the inputs down.

The game is very fun, takes a little while to get used.

I wish that it was possible to commit and it wouldn't reset everything else you did, it makes it more tedious to do everything in the game.

So I recommend when you pick up this game to focus on one bird at a time so you won't have to redo too many sections.