lays here, staring at the ceiling. horror game where you get the creepy crow shot (circling over head, cawing), but the crows are actually trying to warn you about creep ass shit happening, and how you treat them and pay attention is how you survive
also thinking a little of the wildlife mechanic from Until Dawn, if you treat the animals badly, nature starts fighting back and making things more difficult
oh oh oh and make the protag a detective trying to solve a murder (as in a dead body) and the Murder (as in crows) lead you to the supernatural clues if you're nice to them
imagine the Big Bad shows up and the crows start flocking overhead to warn you. if you've been nice to them you get it, if you've been mean you think they are minions
Now I'm fondly reminded of the story where the guy befriends crows in the grass, but antagonizes the crows outside his office, and triggers a crow gang war.
bad end, they get stuck with Scrappy-Doointo pure chaos