Stork Skies: The Long Flight

Every autumn the white storks of Lithuania set off for Africa, and this year a young stork – you give it its name – flies for the first time. Grandma Ona, an old stork who has made the journey twenty times, tells it about every place on the way. Like a real stork, yours hardly flaps: hold your finger in a column of rising warm air to circle up to the clouds for free, let go to glide to the next one, and flap only when you must, because flapping costs energy. Frogs in the green fields bring the energy back, and a field is a good place to land and rest.

The first chapter has twelve stages along the real route: the Nemunas meadows, the Masurian lakes, the Carpathians, the Hortobágy plain, the Danube, the Bosporus in Istanbul, the Anatolian plateau, Israel’s Hula Valley, the Sinai desert, the Nile, the savanna of Sudan and the Serengeti. Each one has its own landmarks, time of day and weather – morning mist, rain fronts, gusty wind, evening light – and its own dangers: there is no rising warm air over water, power lines are deadly for storks, and storms push the air down. Cranes, pelicans, bee-eaters and other migrants fly the same skies and fill a bird atlas, and every finished stage adds a true fact about storks to the journal.

Every stage earns up to three stars and has an extra challenge; frogs buy stronger wings, more stamina and a better nest, and a daily gift and a daily flight with new weather bring you back. The game has real nature sounds, is in English and Lithuanian, works offline, needs no account and has no in-app purchases. A small banner is shown only in the menus, never during a flight, and an optional short ad on the result card can double the frogs of that flight.