A Bird Story
Fair · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.07/hr
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 10,860
- Critics
- 66 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 7% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.67 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 1.3h
- To 100%
- 1.4h 1.1x the story
- Finish
- 49% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 1
Price and sales
- Sales
- 75 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.79 June 2017
- Sale every
- 45d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 3 now
- Cheaper than
- 77% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 87% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 75 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 7 percent. It is cheaper than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. On the same math To the Moon ($9.99, scores 87) and Grimm's Hollow (free, scores 93) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about A Bird Story
66 from critics against 85 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts 49 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. Of the 724 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 6,550 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 79 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 5 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A beautiful little story, beautifully crafted both musically and visually. I can understand why people with short attention spans might have struggled with it, though. You go into this game expecting a story, and a story is exactly what you get, entirely without dialogue or words
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Yeah. It's good. Not as incredible as Freebird's main storyline games, but it's still simply good. Stories with no dialogue are in a genre that tends to be underexplored so it's nice to try something new for once. It's a heartwarming, short story for when you feel like checking out something a little different. Check out the rest of Freebird's stuff first though.
Took me about 75 mins to beat. Felt like it should have been a 5 minute youtube video rather than a game. Heard the plot was nice, it's not - it's mundane. There isn't really any gameplay. For me, this is a game that offers absolutely nothing except some relatively pleasant music.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
A Bird Story scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/327410/a-bird-storyReviews 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 31, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.