🐔 “Fowl Play”: New Survival Game Has You Start as a Chicken… and End as a War Criminal

By Slick Voltage — June 28, 2025 - LostNachos.com

What starts as an innocent romp through a cartoonish farm turns into a spiraling descent into rebellion, bioengineering, and moral collapse.

The game? Pecking Order — an open-world survival sim where you begin as a humble chicken scratching for feed… and end up leading a tactical poultry insurrection against humanity itself.

🐣 Day 1: You’re Just a Chicken

You wake up in a coop. You peck. You cluck. You dodge toddlers with bread. You lay an egg. You bask in the sun.

It’s all oddly peaceful — until your rooster buddy gets hauled off by “The Gloved Ones” in a horrifying early-game cutscene. Suddenly the tone shifts… and so does the gameplay.

🧠 Evolution Gets Weird — Fast

From there, the game lets you:

• Build an underground chicken bunker

• Craft armor out of feathers, metal scraps, and cornmeal

• Unlock “Cognitive Growth” trees with skill names like Feathered Fury and Beak of Truth

• Form squads of genetically-altered hens with stealth cloaking

One player posted a clip of a mid-game cutscene where their chicken negotiates an arms deal with a disgruntled barn cat in exchange for fertilizer-grade potassium nitrate. The devs call it “strategic absurdity.”

🔥 Late Game: Crimes Against Humanity (and Poultry)

By the final acts, you’re leading organized revolts across multiple farms, hijacking feed trucks, and deciding whether to:

• Liberate captured flocks

• Or launch aggressive expansions into petting zoos and 4H competitions

The morality system tracks player choices and categorizes them under international law. One achievement literally reads: “Convicted in Absentia – You violated 3 poultry war codes.”

🐓 Streamer Reaction: Shock and Awe

Big-name streamers have jumped on Pecking Order for its shock value.Clips are going viral of viewers laughing at chicken customization before gasping at flame-throwing coops and drone strikes by pigeon allies.

Quotes from stream chat:

• “Bro this chicken has more backstory than my Skyrim character.”

• “I thought this was Farmville. It’s Fallout with feathers.”

• “I bombed a farmer’s market and I’m… crying???”

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🎮 Dev Response: “It’s Satire… Mostly”

In an interview, the devs stated the game is a commentary on escalation, player agency, and “what it means to have power when you were never meant to.” Also, they just really like chickens.

Their next DLC? “Eggsecutive Orders” — introducing bureaucracy, chicken politicians, and corrupt barn councils.

🧀 Nacho Verdict:

This might be the weirdest, most brilliant survival sim ever made.If you’ve ever wanted to cluck your way from coop to coup, Pecking Order is for you.

Just remember: Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Even if you started as a chicken.

By Slick Voltage — June 28, 2025 - LostNachos.com

"Raw, Reckless, and Real."