Songbird Symphony
Fair · Narrative · 2019
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h 7h to 100%
- Value
- $3.54/hr
- Reviews
- 90% of 698 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.85 or less.
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
Musical Metroidvania, with pixel art to die for. Guide orphaned chick 'Birb', on a platform adventure, as he faces off against the denizens of the forest in rhythm-action boss battles. Acclaimed for its gorgeous animation, and heart-warming storytelling, as Birb strives to discover his true origins.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0), 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
Across all 55 discounts in the 7 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 17 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Teslagrad ($9.99, scores 55) beats it on value, while it beats Greak: Memories of Azur ($19.99, scores 38).
More about Songbird Symphony
1 of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 4.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
89% start to 11% 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
I have completed the game on both Switch and PC, and I absolutely love it. Controller can be a bit tough at times, but the game is the perfect mix of chill and challenging. I cant recommend this game enough. My only complaint would be that in some of the songs the notes overlap quite a bit with the background music and it sounds annoying, and the hold notes are a bit too sharp and high pitched, but the music and...
1 more review, not recommended
game designed for a toddler with terrible controls, terrible visual queues and absolutely nothing of value outside of being cute. sorry but cute isnt enough. the music game elements combine everything i hate in music games that good music games generally dont have. obscure timing window, long unskippable sections, squeaky hit sounds, bad controls. like whose idea was it to implement hold notes that you initiate with...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Songbird Symphony 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/909820/songbird-symphonyReviews 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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.