Flappy Hen is lastly returning, 10 years after its demise

A decade after its and , the unique is coming again. Beneath the banner of the Flappy Hen Basis, some devoted followers acquired the rights to the viral cellular hit, per a press launch. Flappy Hen will return to iOS and Android as native cellular apps in 2025. However you’ll play it elsewhere earlier than then. The group is planning to carry the sport to different platforms, resembling desktop and the cellular net, beginning this fall.

The Flappy Hen Basis has some huge plans for the , and it confirmed off a few of these in . Whereas sustaining the unique recreation design is vital, you can too count on new modes, characters, development and multiplayer challenges.

A mix of adverse gameplay and a crude artwork fashion (together with pipes that appeared very impressed by Mario video games) helped Flappy Hen turn out to be a sensation. The problem posed by tapping the display screen to flap the hen’s wings and squeeze via gaps between pipes caught the creativeness of legions of avid gamers — greater than 100 million of them, in accordance with the Flappy Hen Basis.

Flappy Hen debuted in Might 2013 however it did not blow up till the next January. Developer Dong Nguyen quickly revealed that the sport was raking in $50,000 per day from promoting. Nevertheless, Flappy Hen‘s success was for its creator. Nguyen eliminated it from the App Retailer and Google Play in February 2014 for (although he introduced one other model to Amazon Fireplace TV later that yr).

“Flappy Hen was designed to play in a couple of minutes when you find yourself relaxed,” he instructed . “However it occurred to turn out to be an addictive product. I believe it has turn out to be an issue. To unravel that drawback, it is best to take down Flappy Hen. It is gone perpetually.” Fortunately for followers (however perhaps not individuals who have been reselling outdated telephones with the unique recreation nonetheless put in), “perpetually” is not essentially everlasting.