Birdwatching Notebook
Fair · Short indie · 2026
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD 3000, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Turn your desktop into your very own birdwatching spot, and await the arrival of new avian friends! Enjoy a cozy idle game — place a tiny postcard on the corner of your screen, keeping you company with pleasant scenes and visiting birds. Oh, and don't forget your camera!
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
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Short indie game (about 4 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was May 2026. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 4 months tracked here, most recently in August 2026.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 6 percent on value. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Moe Era (free, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats The Message from Deep Space ($9.99, scores 61).
This site sampled 338 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2026 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 96 percent of the 103 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
100% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
111 players online when we last checked, on Oct 1, 23:49 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Birdwatching Notebook scores 62/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. Length is estimated at 4 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/4111370/birdwatching-notebookReviews set the ceiling, and price against its genre's typical length moves the BANG Score inside it, docked until a real length is known. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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