Super Fowlst: a chicken that fights head-first

How the first minutes of Super Fowlst go

A splash screen with a chicken on a pile of crates asks you to press any key. Then comes a tutorial in a dark pixel forest. Its lessons are lines of text in the scenery: hop left, hop right, smash into enemies but dodge their shots, and "Some enemies drop items...".

The chicken never walks. Each press of an arrow key makes it hop that way, and more presses in mid-air make it flap higher, so a tall shaft is climbed with quick taps. On 11 November 2026 we flew into a round red demon. It burst, and a line of praise appeared on the wall.

Another demon left an item behind. Picked up, it sat in a box at the top right under the word INVINCIBILITY, and the up arrow used it: the chicken turned gold. After the tutorial a stage opened with several demons at once. Poki says the stages are generated afresh and that there are bosses; we met none.

Keys that worked in our check

←

Hops left. The tutorial pairs it with A.

→

Hops right; pressed again in mid-air, it flaps the chicken higher. The tutorial shows S beside it.

↑

Uses the item you carry. The tutorial pairs it with W.

Poki's own controls line is written for touch screens: "Tap to jump mid-air and attack foes." On a desktop the tutorial asks for keys instead. We tried the 3 arrows above and none of the letter keys. A splash screen waits for any key before the tutorial starts.

What Super Fowlst costs on Poki and on the App Store

The Poki copy is free. In the tutorial and the first stage we saw no shop, no coin price and no button offering a reward for an advert. Poki's description promises "30 unlockable characters" and says you can "trade your treasure for cool powers like egg bombs and rockets". We reached neither screen, so how the Poki copy unlocks its characters is not verified.

The iPhone and iPad edition is free with purchases. The UK App Store lists Remove Ads at £4.99 and 9 characters at £0.99 each, from Kevin to Speedy. Each price buys a named character, not a random draw.

The Poki page has 2 places marked "Advertisement", in the right column and under the game, both empty in our screenshots. No video ran before the game. The advert settings in the page code allow a first break after 2 minutes of desktop play; none came in our 7 minutes, seen from Thailand.

Account, cartoon violence and age rules

No account is needed. Whether picked-up items or unlocked characters survive a closed tab is not verified. Poki's help pages say a guest's progress lives in browser cookies, which private browsing can wipe.

The UK App Store rates the iPhone edition 9+ for "Infrequent Cartoon or Fantasy Violence". On screen that means round red demons that burst when the chicken hits them, and small glowing bullets. There is no chat and no other player. For the Poki copy the host's own rule applies as well: 16 and older in the wording of Poki's rules served to us outside the UK.

Characters, treasure and what we did not reach

We saw no score counter and no online table in our session on Poki. The App Store page says the iPhone edition has leaderboards through Game Center, which belongs to Apple devices.

What we did not reach: the character list, the place where treasure buys powers, a boss and the end of a run. A sequel, Super Fowlst 2, is listed on the App Store as well; it is not the game on this card.

Who makes Super Fowlst

Poki credits the game to Thomas K. Young and notes that it is his first game on the portal. On the App Store the same developer, as Thomas Young, publishes the Dadish platformers about a radish who is also a dad. There the subtitle of Super Fowlst calls it the 2nd best bird action game.

The app has changed its price model once. Version 1.4 of March 2020 announced "Super Fowlst is back to being free to play :)", and an update of December 2019 said it had "joined the Playond collection". Poki added its copy on 19 October 2021, and by Poki's record the game file has not been updated since that day.