Planned Release Date: To be announced

About This Game

Siribird is a shiritori (Japanese word-chain) x typing battle game played on a 5x5 board of emoji.
Each emoji has several readings (🐱 = neko / nyanko / kyatto ...). Type a reading that starts with the target kana in romaji and the tile is yours!
The last kana of your reading becomes the next target. Longer readings score more. Whoever scores the most before time runs out wins!

Solo - battle the CPU

Call in 0 to 3 CPU opponents and jump straight in. CPU strength: Easy, Normal or Hard.

• Typing: type the reading in romaji and press Enter. If it connects to the target kana, the tile is yours
  
• Select: just pick a connecting tile with the cursor. No typing skills needed
  
• Voice: say the reading in Japanese into your microphone to take a tile (Solo mode, Speed and Turns rules). It listens only while you hold Space (or gamepad A)
  
• Two rules: Turns (one player at a time, so you can take your time) and Speed (everyone at once, first come, first served)
  
• Choose the match length (1 to 5 minutes) and the time per turn (5 to 20 seconds)
  
• Reading hints: off, masked, step-by-step, or fully shown
  
• Practice with 0 CPUs and learn the readings at your own pace

Online battles for up to 4 players on Steam

Create a room and invite your Steam friends. Players can also join with a 6-character room code or from the public room list.

• The room host chooses the rule (Turns or Speed), the input (Typing or Select), hints and the number of "Gone!" calls
  
• Readings accepted by "Gone!" votes stay in the room dictionary for the next game in the same room
  
• Voice input is not yet available in online matches (planned before the full release)

Up to 4 players on one PC

Gather around one PC with a mouse, two keyboard players (left and right hand) and two gamepads - up to 4 players.
Press a button to join. The match starts automatically when everyone is ready.
Local matches are played in Select mode with the Speed rule.
Plus a brand-new rule where ideas beat speed: Kojitsuke!

Lost? Just say "Gone!"

"That reading should count!" - then shout "Gone!".
Propose a reading that is not in the dictionary, and if the majority votes yes, it is accepted and you take the tile!
Even in Turns, you can call "Gone!" during another player's turn.
In Solo, the CPUs vote; online, everyone in the room votes. With voice input, you can also say your "Gone!" reading. In local matches you can enter readings with flick-style kana input, even with a gamepad or mouse.

A user dictionary that grows as you play

Readings accepted by "Gone!" votes in local matches are saved to the user dictionary on your PC and count in your next matches too.
Manage it from Options: browse, disable, delete, and export or import it to share with friends.

460 emoji, over 3,000 readings

Fruit, animals, vehicles, food, tools... 460 emoji with over 3,000 readings, from native Japanese words to loanwords and baby talk.
The more unexpected readings you know, the better!

Four colorful birds

Play as the pink, green, yellow or purple bird and splatter your color across the board!

Features

• Shiritori x typing battles on a 5x5 emoji board (up to 4 players)
  
• Solo: 0-3 CPUs, 3 difficulty levels, Typing, Select or Voice, Turns or Speed, adjustable time
  
• Online: up to 4 players via Steam, with friend invites, room codes and public rooms
  
• Local multiplayer: up to 4 players on one PC with mouse, 2 keyboard players and 2 gamepads
  
• "Gone!" votes add new readings; accepted readings stay in your user dictionary
  
• 460 emoji and over 3,000 readings
  
• New "Kojitsuke" rule — bridge broken links with your own made-up readings, then let everyone vote OK / NG

Coming updates (Early Access)

During Early Access, we plan to add the following (plans may change as development goes on):

• Voice input in online matches (your voice is never sent to other players; it is recognized only on your own PC)
  
• A shared reading dictionary that grows from everyone's "Gone!" votes
  
• Difficulty and balance tuning based on player feedback

Please note

• This game is in Japanese and is played with hiragana readings. Typing uses romaji input
  
• A keyboard is required for Typing mode (Select mode can be played with a mouse or gamepad)
  
• Voice input requires a microphone. Your voice is recognized only on your PC and is never sent anywhere

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

During development, we used generative AI to create the following, and then selected and edited the results by hand:
- Illustrations: the characters, the emoji tile icons on the game board, and the UI icons
- Parts of the key art used on the store page and capsule images
- Music: the title song was created with AI, and all other tracks were arranged with AI from public-domain classical pieces
- Some of the sound effects
- The English text of the store page (the game itself is in Japanese only)

No content is generated by AI while the game is running.
Voice input uses an offline speech-recognition model (Vosk) that runs entirely on your PC. It only converts your speech into text to check it against the tile readings. It does not generate any content, and your voice is never sent anywhere.