Not to be a downer, but I am tired of friendslop games. The friendslop formula, known for things like comical co-op gameplay and proximity chat, has been diluted by an onslaught of too many games since the release of PEAK , and it seems like every single weekend I’m begged to buy a $5 game with a very corny gimmick that my friends and I will play for maybe two hours before it rots in our Steam libraries forever. A lot of these recent games have felt meaningless to me, which I guess is the point sometimes—it is called friend slop , after all. But I’m delighted to announce that I’m hooked on a new co-op game that has the potential to stick around for a while, and that’s because it’s so faithful to a very enjoyable hobby. Flock Around , which was released by Secret Plan in late April, is an open world co-op game about birding.…