What Killed the Angry Birds Franchise? 

let's remind ourselves that in the first Angry Birds movie, there was a copyright-free version of Never gonna give you up, meaning that anyone who watched the movie has been rickrolled.

No matter how Angry Birds has gone downhill, I will always remember the times between 2009 and 2016 (that was the year when Seasons ended) as being one of the most popular games on mobile and computer.☺️

I REALLY miss Angry Birds seasons. Those environments got me in the mood for those times of year so perfectly. I wish they'd just keep making those forever.

I’ll tell you this, behind every cash grab movie, there’s always a bunch of artists trying to make the most out of the script and material and inject as much heart and artistry as they can. If they’re lucky, it might actually show.

I think rovio can redeem themselves, especially some of the projects there working on like “bad piggies 2”, but right now they are in serious hot water with the fans!

Just a small addition to your list of the birds' abilities: the Blues are strong vs ice/glass (however you look at it), Chuck is strong vs wood, and Bomb is strong vs stone

Angry Birds Epic shocked me as a kid. It was... it was just so good, like holy hell, it had double the amount of content than most angry birds game s I had played combined. It took me as much time as it did to beat Angry Birds Star Wars w DLC than to reach the midpoint of Epic, and I still haven't finished it. I'm really disappointed that it never got the sales it deserved.

Angry Birds is so unbelievably nostalgic. Wish it could make a HUGE comeback in modern times like this; imagine everyone talking about and playing an Angry Birds game(s) in 2023. Wild.

This series is what got me into gaming,my first game

Say about the movies what you want, they really did a great job with the designs: Making them look appealing in 3D while keeping them recognizable. As for Rovio thenselves, I really hope they'll continue putting out remakes if the old games. But they also shouldn't be afraid of branching out like tgey did with Angry Birds Epic. Would be sad to see such a pioneer of mobile gaming go.

It sucks that the power of a movie got to their head and they thought it would be better to remove everything. Angry birds epic was by far one of the best games i ever played

The fact that bad piggies survived the purge and is still going strong after 10 whole years is absolutely insane Bad piggies built my childhood and I wouldn’t be anything without it and the community around it

You forgot to mention how they massacred angry birds go afterwards. It probably was my favorite game in series and what is happening to it now just makes me want to cry.

I wasn't an Angry Birds Epic kid. There, I said it. Playing it back then was too complicated for me, since I was a dumb kid. I wish I could play it today so that I would know why everyone loves it so much. Unfortunately, that may not ever be possible, unless there's a fan remake or until Rovio finally re-releases it.

At the height of Angry Birds mania in Finland (the home country of AB), their brand was everywhere. My regular supermarket had AB posters, AB pens, AB backpacks, AB soda, AB shirts, AB birthday cake decorations etc. There was much more AB merchandise than all Disney+Nintendo merch combined. Angry Birds was so ubiquitous that I heard of a a kid whose first words were Angry Birds. Nothing in her native Finnish language, but a crude "anp perts"

I was searching for angry birds Rio and seasons a few months ago on play store but i couldn't find them and that really surprised me as they were highly popular game when i was a teenager. Now i got to know what really happened. Ravio should have never deleted their classic games, they were so fun to all age groups😔

This is not the only occurrence of a major mobile game being abandoned. The same happened to infinity blade, which was probably my favourite mobile game. I just wish that if companies want to abandon the maintenance of their games, they simply make the code and assets open source so that it community can maintain it.

The Duolingo Crossover is insane Also the first time I found Angry Birds was through the Bomb Survival Levels in Little Big Planet Also Ari Pulkinnen is an amazing composer and he worked on Super Stardust, Resogun, Dead Nation with banging tracks.

We gonna ignore the fact Angry Bird Transformers wasnt mentioned??

I really do miss this series. Going into more recent games during 2018 basically made me realise that all those whimsical memories and fantasies of fun I had were basically gone. And seriously, if Rovio wants to say to their fans that they're trying to make things better for them, best to just do it, since actions always speak louder than words.

This was the first game my grandpa ever got into and he was the one who introduced me to it in 2011 when I was 5 or 6 years old with the original on his old, tiny, outdated phone. I've played every single game since then, I genuinely grew up with this franchise. I really hope it can come back someday.

I still remember , when i was a kid me and my friends were so hyped about angry birds star wars and we were like let's see who finishes it first or who was at higher level, literally every kid in my society loved angry birds star wars at that time. Rovio was a nostalgia let's see what happens next for them.

i got an angry birds 2 ad around a minute into the video. It was my first ever angry birds ad too.

It’s so sad that this iconic game got abandoned. A lot of the sequels (which are probably gone from the App Store by now) like Angry Birds Epic and Angry Birds Go were totally awesome.

It's a shame that you can't play the old games anymore as I really loved the star wars ones since those were what got me in both franchises

I'm honestly so happy you mentioned Crush the Castle. I played that game WAY before Angry Birds.

You forgot angry birds transformers

I remember seeing people wearing Angry Bird T-shirts pretty often back in 2010-2011. Amazing how popular a little mobile game can become, even if only for a short while.

I feel angry birds didn’t just fall and die. I think trends just changed. I don’t think anyone would ever argue it’s not a bad game. It was just a matter of taste in trends

You mentioned the part where Rovio was a publisher, and the first thing I thought of was Rovio Stars. They published Fathom Interactive's Sky Punks, an "endless" runner-game with a world and characters with depth and richness I haven't seen from a game like it. It's been long discontinued but i'm still hoping for a return to the game by Rovio.

And now they unlisted the remake 💀💀💀

Red’s First Flight doesn’t have all the worlds, like the one where Bomb gets a shockwave ability, the candy one with Bubbles, and they removed by absolute favorite, Red’s Mighty Feathers. Rest in Peace, RMF. You will be greatly missed.

Do you guys remember some other amazing games published by Rovio that no one cared about? Y'know games like Retry, Amazing Alex, and especially Tiny Thief! The latter was so good that Nintendo even published it on Wii U in Japan! Too bad all of these games are forgotten, among probably many others!

I still miss Angry Birds Seasons man Seeing that show up made me sad because it was my first angry birds aside from the OG and AB Rio. It was and still is by far my favorite too

wow, the research of this video must be taking a while to get done, liked and subscribed!

Short answer: Rovio's stupidity for removing literally almost all of their good games

As someone who never really played Angry Birds, but played TONS of Crush the Castle 2, I have to say that you've undersold the series. Crush the Castle 2, though utilizing the same engine as the first game, has 16 different projectiles. And though many people weren't too bothered about the similarities between Crush the Castle and Angry Birds, the developers of Crush the Castle were. The Crush the Castle 2 Players Pack contains the "Irritated Fowl", a chicken with a redraw of Red's face that you only get once beating the game, where the Redvonian king refers to them as a plague and asks you to be rid of them. The chickens are the worst weapon in the game.

Dude, the nostalgia from this video is hitting me so hard. Angry Birds Epic was truly amazing.

You ABSOLUTELY need to a video on "What Killed The Rollercoaster Tycoon Franchise" if possible

Fun fact: Rovio means "pyre" (like a big fire to burn witches etc.) in Finnish.

Go (way before the modern update) and epic were my favourite out of the angry birds series but the original has a close meaning to me because it was one of the first games I have ever played.

4:08 i have a massive red plush in the corner of my room near a shelf. he's cool, he just chills there.

Man the angry birds games really have great memories. I played basically all the games (except the new ones that are a copy of candy crush and all). I was pretty surprised when you said angry birds go and epic did not do well, like those were my favourite mobile games alongside angry birds transformers. I used to always go back to these games once in awhile because man I just loved them. Angry birds 2 was also a really good game the gave the classic game a more modern feel. Wish they brought all of those back.

Bro that crush the castle clip just unlocked a core memory

What makes me excited for angry birds now is that they are starting to bring back the old games. Just letting you all know that the classic game that started it all is back on the app store but it costs 99 cents! It's worth it though, because there are no ads, no in app purchases, and everything has stayed the same. They are planning to add even more, I think starting with angry birds space.

That outro metaphor with the eggs and pigs was smooth af

Omg bro only legends remember stacking people in Crush the Castle and blowing them up with catapults.

Edit: hello everyone, yiu saw my comment on angry birds epic and how its new community should be talked about. Well I edited the comment to tell everyone how to download Epic and apparently youtube just deleted my comment. I think because I used the word "wire us" which I was talking about an apk scanning website called "WireusTotal" I so hate youtube.... I will paste my other comment way below down. Angry Birds Epic was genuinely the best angry birds game ever. I'm sad it's discontinued, it was such a masterpiece. And wanna know why Rovio removed the arena, events and replaced the daily calender with just snoutlings in Angry Birds Epic? They admitted that apparently, if you had all the class upgrades, and opened a class upgrade chest, the game would give this black screen which softlocks you. Now the thing is this problem was there since 2020. So the thing is, they had 2 YEARS to fix this and yet, someone fixed this in less than a week using the help of game guardian. I don't know much about coding, but I do know it shouldn't take 2 years to fix a simple bug. Rovio could've replaced the class upgrade chest with some other chest instead, it shouldn't take that much time Speaking of Angry Birds Epic, the ABE community has really grown. From beating the game with no hacks in its current state without soending a single penny, to finding game breaking and benefiting glitches, and having events and arena back, including playing as the pigs. The community has ironically grown more after Epic's discontinuation. I would really love to see you talk about it now, you can ask me for all the things this community has accomplished so far.

2:08literally spit out my drink and choked

Just the clips make me nostalgic and make me want my childhood back.

Angry birds was one of my nannas favourite mobile games and I’d see her play the games all the time. Unfortunately she now suffers from dementia, but it’s always nice to be reminded of the things she liked, and that I always saw her playing on her iPad with the sky blue coloured case

8:06 I love how you made Bad Piggies re-appear a second later like how Rovio re-listed it in early 2020. 😆

I remember Angry Birds being very popular back in the day. It's unfortunate to see the decline of these old games.

9:45 I swear I had a dream that looked exactly like that.

What killed the angry birds franchise was Rovio completely changing what Angry Birds was. In the “golden age” angry birds, yes, there were some changes to the formula like angry birds epic and transformers, but they still felt and played very much still like angry birds. Once the angry birds movie came out, all the games made were either candy crush ripoffs or baby looking versions of the original game

3:05 why did i laugh at when he said "enemies"

4:30 the amount of nostalgia this game gives me oh my lord, I literally forgot this game existed before this part of the video, ah man, I loved playing this game so fucking much😭

Fun Fact: Before December 2010 Angry Birds Seasons Was Originally Called Angry Birds Halloween When Rovio Releases Second Angry Birds Game.

Rovio is just another example of what happens when someone falls to the sin of greed, you never focus on making money, making money is not eveeything, quality is above

Angry birds has always been an important series to my childhood. My mom actually used to work in the same building as the Rovio HQ we even held my little sisters Birthday party at the Venue the building had. The HQ building had this Huge Gift Shop. and i remember getting this Huge encyclopedia book of what (at the time) was the entire series. and just a Plushie of chuck. The book is currently on my shelf. and the Chuck plush is currently serving as my 2 year old little sisters Favorite Pillow.

Theory: the reason Bad Piggies came back was cause they knew it was too perfect to keep from the public

Can't believe you didn't even mention the over-marketization of the games killing off popularity. Plants vs Zombies had the same problem. Each release of these games would add another button to the home screen linking to advertisements for their other games, or to the in-game store. It got so bad it was honestly difficult to figure out how to start playing the game. This is the sole reason that most people I know stopped playing the original games.

omg you just unlocked SO MANY MEMORIES with crush the castle game.......

5:10 i still have the dvd's with the cartoons lyng around

I wonder: "What would Rovio look like now in an alternate universe where there 2015 games (Go and Epic) got almost a big as a success as the OG Angry birds" or "What if Rovio just made a new game with a new IP that got very popular and the game was actually good" But unless we have the technology to warp to other timelines, the world may never know

Rovio killed the franchise, as far as I know too little people were actually playing the new games, so instead of making the newer games more interesting, they decided to delete the old games

There got to be so many adverts it became unplayable, that's the whole reason I ditched it

One of my favorite games was angry birds Stella. It's a game that got discontinued in 2015, but was a good game with unique characters.

Another thing i noticed is they kept the games unlisted on android due to android devices having way better compatibility, while iOS had them completely unavailable outside of Zimbabwe due to iOS not supporting many older versions of apps.

This was my childhood, I was so obsessed with this game loved it

Angry Birds have created my childhood I’ve been playing the games since I was 9 it breaks my heart to see how the series is heading I hope they make a comeback.

Damn angry birds is my childhood and seeing it decline Makes me sad

Angry Birds has been a really big part of my childhood, as it was literally the first online game i have ever played, and it's sad seeing Rovio capitalize on the franchise, there were some older games that weren't in the traditional style, but atleast they tried being creative with Go and Epic, when i play Angry Birds, i don't want to play a bubble shooter, i don't want to play match three, i want to see avians destroying buildings and killing suines, after the dumpster fire Rovio became, i appreciate them putting the original games back up again *also the movie art style sucks, give me my round birds back*

Thank you for bringing the hours I spent in computer lab on crush the castle back to me. I could never place why Angry Birds always felt like a rip off to me

This is nostalgia. I still remember playing Angry Birds back when i was 5-8 years old.

The amount of nostalgia I got from watching this video is indescribable

Back in 2019, I had to delete Angrybirds from my phone due to lack of space. When I cleared out pictures off of my phone, I went to redownload Angrybirds. When I discovered that it was gone, I broke down crying.

For some reasons there are still a millions of angry birds roller coaster park

People just got older now

4:03 WHOA I REMEMBER HAVING THOSE PLUSHIE

I remember playing the Angrybirds a long time ago Also the bad piggies theme tune actually slaps

i had an angry birds keychain plush showing red in his space design

10:20 I REMEMBER ABOUT RETRY NOW!! what an epic game for real!

Angry Birds Epic was one of my favourite games I've played, it's sad to see that it's gone

2:50 omg ive been looking for the "crush the castle" game for ages, thanks so much

Once he brought up the blushes I look to the left and I have my 3 plushies from a kid sitting there

You know, I feel more happy that I have the angry birds collection game on my ds

Honestly as a child, bad piggies was so cool to 8 year old me. The idea that you play as the villain and have them as the main focus was so cool to me back then.

I really like the use of the 60 Seconds! "Wasteland" OST Track for the "uh oh" segment. It's actually a really good track to illustrate a dramatic downfall.

Crush the Castle was such a huge part of my childhood that I had completely locked away in long term memory, was surreal to have that yanked back out

Thankfully you can play the old games if you go to the section in the Google play store where it shows all previously downloaded (and deleted too) games

Im glad I grew up with the classic games. I loved playing the seasons, space, and star wars versions of the angry bird games. I miss these games

One thing I think got left out: Angry Birds Fight, which was a partnership between Rovio and Kiteretsu. It was a competitive match 3 puzzle RPG launched in 2015, but ended service in 2017. It had a similar theme to Angry Birds Epic. It was honestly a pretty good spinoff despite it being an always-online game.

Angry Birds Star Wars was the backbone of childhood video games for me. Luckily, I can still redownload both 1 and 2 since the App Store has a page for previously downloaded games. Oh and don’t get me started on the masterpiece that is Angry Birds Epic. I remember my naive kiddo self trying to convince Rovio that ABSW 3 was a great idea and that they should make BB-Egg or some crap like that. It hurts to see my childhood crash and burn bro.

angry bird go was a masterclass. it start small with small tracks, but at the end you control a freaking plane, and the lasr circuits with chucks are so fast and cool felt like sonic gameplay

2:50 omg I remember that game, I used to play it so much when I was like 10, so many memories

3:36 you forgot to say that bad piggies has the best soundtrack

I wonder what went into their heads like ''ahaha yes lets make birds fight pigs what a great game idea''

Some other AB games from my childhood (unmentioned in the video): -Angry birds stella (was very sad how they just sort of buried the game after a couple updates... also, they should bring back her friends in the new games) -Angry birds fight (although it was a blatant candy crush knockoff, I still liked how it combined the worlds of epic and the other match-3 one, but with more customization options) -Angry birds transformers (still available in the app store, and very fun!)

I managed to use a certain trick on the app store to play the OG angry bird games on the Iphone X (No i did not use sketchy download links, i installed it from the app store, i might make a tutorial on how to do it)