Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Fair · Shooter · 2012
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 80% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB RAM graphics card (GF 7600 GT / Radeon X1950), 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Annihilate an evil penguin regime in this cinematic platform adventure game offering full solo and co-op campaigns.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.99. That was June 2017. It has been discounted 43 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales.
On value it sits in the top 26 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 75 percent of its genre. The Expendabros (free, scores 95) outscores it, and so does Shank 2 ($9.99, scores 63). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3.5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 338 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 543 reviews written there were positive, against 80 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.5 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
62% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 3.5-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
What players say
Developed by Ratloop Asia and published by Reverb Publishing, Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken is a side-scrolling action game that thrives on originality. Instead of taking itself too seriously, it builds an entertaining adventure around the unlikely idea of a heavily armed chicken leading a rebellion against an oppressive penguin regime. While the premise sounds intentionally ridiculous, the game uses its unusual...
Amazing game and the soundtrack is Awesome, I also accidently learnt a trick to go very fast, just constantly switch your weapons quickly while moving and it for some reason gives you a speed boost lol I also really love the Art-Style too
A fun and quirky shooter with charming graphics, fast-paced gameplay, and humor that keeps players entertained from start to finish.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/215510/rocketbirds-hardboiled-chickenThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 23, price as of Sep 23.
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