What an awesome game, playing as a crow to pester hoomans and help other creatures (sometimes hoomans) with tasks they are struggling with. Completion takes around 9h and it has no missable achievements.
Approximate amount of time to 100%: Around 9 hours
Estimated achievement difficulty: 4/10
Minimum number of playthroughs needed: 1
Is there a good guide available: I wrote this achievement guide
Multiplayer achievements: No
Missable achievements: No
Grinding Achievements: Yes, pooping 10k times it a lot. Poop for a bit every time you’re in the main menu
DLC-Only achievements: No
Speedrun achievements: Yes, there is an achievement for winning all the races with a gold medal. However, you can play the races on the easiest difficulty
Time-gated achievements: No
RNG-achievements: No
Does difficulty affect achievements: No
Unobtainable/glitched achievements: No
In Just Magpie Things Just Crow Things you play as this little crow who got new sunglasses from their grandma. However, some bullies steal it from you because you’re not cool enough! you’ll show the world how cool you are in this incredibly funny and creative adventure game. However, I would recommend to the hoomans in this game that they have a good conversation with their car manufacturers…. I don’t think the car manufacturers test their cars on safety. I have seen so many scary things happen with the cars in this game, it is crazy :P.
It took a minute or 2 to get used to the controls, especially the one that lets you fly faster takes some practice. (I highly recommend going to the settings and changing the fly button from holding it down to toggle. Holding down the right trigger for almost the whole game becomes very uncomfortable quickly.) After that initial time of getting used to the controls you’re quickly on your way to help different people/animals in each level. The levels are very different from each other and I enjoyed them all so much. So many small stories and awesome environments to explore. I giggled when entering the Craft World and that only became louder the more I explored that specific level.
The previous game from this developer Rain on Your Parade showed already how good they are with making such creative choices with a simple promise. They do that all over again with Just Crow Thongs Just Crow Things. Here you can fly, you can poop and you can pick up things and interact with them. Such a simple promise but using a leaf blower will have very different effects than using a flashlight or a can of graffiti. Having them in different settings (A haunted mansion, a small city, a fantasy town) allows for so many different short stories and fun objectives. Each level has a few objectives. Showed as stars on the overworld map, so you can see how many of them you already did. You can also easily see if you finished the 4 races that are in each level.
This game comes with so many cosmetics. There are 45 hats, 8 skins, and 11 scarf colors to change the looks of your little dude. Most of them you unlock as a reward for doing all the races and objectives in the levels but a whole lot of them are also hidden all over the game. Some are just laying around, for others you have to do certain things to unlock them.
None of the achievements are missable and it is just a joy to try and unlock them all. For most of them you just have to do everything. Finish all races, all objectives, find the collectibles, and Pester hoomans in a few different ways. The achievement that takes quite a bit is pooping 10k, I recommend doing this in the main menu. I expect that unlocking them all might take around 9 hours or less. A little unsure because I took the time to write notes for the guide linked above.
I give Just Crow Things 4.5 out of 5 stars.
This review for Just Crow Things was written on 12 August 2024, based on the current Steam version of the game which has 36 achievements at the time of writing this review. This information can be outdated, for example, when the developer adds or removes achievements or releases (new) DLC.