Birthdays the Beginning
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 15, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 5.4h
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 64% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 750, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
October 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $3.99. 60 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. On the same math Marble World ($19.99, scores 50) and Parkasaurus ($24.99, scores 78) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
3 of the 417 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 26 percent of the 222 reviews written there were positive, against 64 percent overall, and those are 25 percent of everything written about it.
5.4 hours to finish it, 48 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 8.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
92% start to <1% 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
What players say
the time achievements are genuinely the worst achievements in any game ive ever played. good game otherwise
The concept for this game is pretty cool, but the execution is trash. I mean, not poor, actual trash. There isnt even a way to exit the game once started. You have to alt-f4 to force stop the game. Really. Thats the only way to exist. ctl alt delete or alt f4. It takes forever to get to actual play because the devs are just so proud of their silly little demo. And you cant just free play a new map once you have...
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Cite this score
Birthdays the Beginning scores 15/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/525700/birthdays-the-beginningReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 1.
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