A Bird Story
Fair · RPG · 2014
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $3.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 1.3h
- Value
- $3.07/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
Recent reviews trending up: 94% over the last 30 days against 85% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 1024x768 High Color +, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
June 2017 is where it bottomed out, at $0.79. It has been discounted 73 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 5 percent on value. It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 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.
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 8. Players rate it 85 percent positive over its lifetime, and the last 30 days run 94 percent. It is aging into a better game than its average suggests. Of the 715 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 7 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 85 percent of the 6,509 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 79 percent of everything written about it.
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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A Bird Story scores 67/100 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/327410/a-bird-storyThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 24.
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