Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Fair · Shooter · 2012
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it. Price from Oct 20.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews▼
- 80% of 3,154
- Critics
- 74 players 6 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 28% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.5h
- To 100%
- 8.2h 2.3x the story
- Finish
- 8% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 29
Price and sales
- Sales
- 43 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 June 2017
- Sale every
- 51d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 72% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 53% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
62% start to 8% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
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. The median cut across all of them is 80 percent, about 7 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 28 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 72 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.
More about Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken
Steam's global achievement data puts about 8 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.5-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. 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.
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What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
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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...
2 more reviews
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.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Annihilate an evil penguin regime in this cinematic platform adventure game offering full solo and co-op campaigns.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. Price last read Oct 20. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/215510/rocketbirds-hardboiled-chickenReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 20, price as of Oct 20. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.