Planned Release Date: Q4 2026

About This Game

Somebody took Birdie's slipper.

She is a very good dog. She is going to get it back.

Birdie's Backyard Battle is a cozy, turn-based roguelike deckbuilder starring a real dog, her real (and deeply unimpressed) cat, and the most dangerous neighborhood in the world: her own.

Go for eight Walks

The Backyard, the Old Oak, the Garage, the Driveway, the Street, the Front Porch, the Park and the Pond. Every Walk is a fresh map of fights, Sniff Spots, Nap Spots and the Garage Sale. Pick your path, take your risks, and every run is different.

Build a deck of dog tricks

Sit. Fetch. BORK. Chuck a slipper. 120+ cards and 45+ collar tags to collect, with combos big enough to make a lawn flamingo regret everything. Yes, you can go infinite. Yes, it is earned.

Pick your Zoomies

Each run, choose one of three Zoomies from a pool of ten: a huge, once-it's-charged move that changes how you play.

Cheddar helps. Sort of.

Your cat fights beside you. She cannot be told what to do. She is a cat.

Meet the neighbors

King Squirrel. A golem made of garage junk. A raccoon, a riding mower, a Roaring Vacuum and a garbage truck with opinions. The Mailman, walking house by house toward YOUR door. And at the pond, Big Boss BERTHA.

Play it your way

• COZY mode for a relaxed run, NORMAL for the real thing, then unlock HARD, NIGHT TERRORS and THE VET.

• Full controller support, built for Steam Deck.

• Short, funny card text in Birdie's own voice, with full rules one press away.

• Pixel, plain and dyslexia-friendly fonts, three text sizes, Day and Night looks, high-contrast and colorblind-safe themes.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Character, enemy and background pixel art was created with AI image tools (ChatGPT, PixelLab) from photos of our real dog and cat and our own design notes, then edited, cut and arranged by the developer. Sprite animations were generated with PixelLab from that art. Game code was written with AI coding assistance (Claude) under the developer's direction. All game text was written or approved by the developer. The music is original, written note by note as code with AI coding assistance (Claude) and rendered with the free GeneralUser GS SoundFont; no AI audio generation and nothing sampled.