Of Bird and Cage
Skip · Action · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 40, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 2.3h 12h to 100%
- Value
- $4.34/hr
- Reviews
- 78% of 227 positive
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Buy now or wait
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
Of Bird and Cage is a unique metal album presented through a two-hour-long story-driven game. Play music in a brand-new way. Featuring famous artists like Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N' Roses), Rob van der Loo (Epica), Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation), and many others!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Nvidia 730 GTx / 2GB vRAM, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
49 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 45 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 26 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 67 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage ($21.99, scores 58) beats it on value, while it beats The Novelist ($4.99, scores 38).
More about Of Bird and Cage
Steam's global achievement data puts about 16 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.3-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The main story runs 2.3 hours. Doing everything runs 12, 5.2 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 2.3 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
85% start to 16% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
What players say
I was interested in this game based on the music alone as a fan of the music genre the artists for the soundtrack do, but that being said, it seems that the music is literally all this has going for it. The graphics are meh at best, the MC's voice acting sounds so flat as if she's uninterested in what she is doing, some of the side actors outshine her in their performance. The timed events are some of the worst I...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Good story and awesome music get hampered by horrible QTE's and terrible time limit.
This title falls under the "wish there was a neutral button". I played only via Steam Deck, so feed back here for the review is based on my experience playing it this way. First off, the game is labeled as being a verified deck game. This is more or less true, the prologue worked fine with no settings changes. However, getting the actual game to run required forcing it to Proton 5.13-6 compatibility. Some video did...
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Cite this score
Of Bird and Cage scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/523770/of-bird-and-cageReviews 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 Sep 30, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.