Nestbound

Some games are about grabbing everything in sight. Nestbound is about getting everyone home. You lead a little flock of native chicks across a dusk-lit world. Sweep one up and it falls into line behind you, trailing your every turn. The idea is easy to grasp and hard to put down: keep them together, keep them calm, and get them to the safety of the nest. The real catch is the one you set yourself. A small flock is easy to bank. A big one is worth far more — and far easier to lose. Every run turns into a quiet argument about when to play it safe and when to push your luck a little further. Five predators share the field, and each has its own way of ruining your afternoon. Rats chase. Stoats stalk, then pounce. Possums loom across the way home. Magpies dive at the middle of your line and try to cut it in two. You come to read them the way a ranger would — by watching, and by learning when…