Ostrich Island
Fair · Multiplayer · 2015
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h 5.3h to 100%
- Value
- $1.43/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 278 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.84 (83% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Don't be an ostrich, play Ostrich! Gain experience points and unlock new skills and achievements! Feel creative? Create whole new islands and share it with community!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
Across all 69 discounts in the 12 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 65 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 83 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lil Gator Game ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Woodle Tree Adventures ($3.99, scores 19).
The drop-off
26% start to 3% finishA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Ostrich Island, developed and published by MeDungeon Ltd., is a curious mix of adventure, platforming, and light exploration that places players in control of an ostrich stranded in a chain of islands following a volcanic catastrophe. It is a game that embraces absurdity from the very beginning, using its strange premise not as a joke, but as a foundation for a surprisingly layered and atmospheric experience...
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Cite this score
Ostrich Island scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/337270/ostrich-islandReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.