Flappy Bird is finally returning, 10 years after its demise

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Flappy Bird is finally returning, 10 years after its demise

A decade after its and , the original is coming back. Under the banner of the Flappy Bird Foundation, some dedicated fans acquired the rights to the viral mobile hit, per a press release. Flappy Bird will return to iOS and Android as native mobile apps in 2025. But you’ll be able to play it elsewhere before then. The team is planning to bring the game to other platforms, such as desktop and the mobile web, starting this fall.

The Flappy Bird Foundation has some big plans for the

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. While maintaining the original game design is key, you can also expect new modes, characters, progression and multiplayer challenges.

A blend of difficult gameplay and a crude art style (including pipes that seemed very inspired by Mario games) helped Flappy Bird become a sensation. The challenge posed by tapping the screen to flap the bird’s wings and squeeze through gaps between pipes caught the imagination of legions of gamers — more than 100 million of them, according to the Flappy Bird Foundation.

Flappy Bird debuted in May 2013 but it didn’t ***** up until the following January. Developer ***** Nguyen soon revealed that the game was raking in $50,000 per day from advertising. However, Flappy Bird‘s success was

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Play in February 2014 for (though he brought another version to

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***** TV later that year).

“Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed,” he told

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. “But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It’s gone forever.” Thankfully for fans (but maybe not people who were reselling old phones with the original game still installed), “forever” isn’t necessarily permanent.

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