A Bird Story on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

An experimental short from the creator of To the Moon & Finding Paradise: A simple & surreal 1-hour interactive animation about a boy and an injured bird, told without dialogues.If you're looking for To the Moon-like experience, I'd suggest playing Finding Paradise first.

A Bird Story is a indie, story rich and great soundtrack game developed and published by Freebird Games.
Released on November 07th 2014 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Russian.

It has received 10,223 reviews of which 8,669 were positive and 1,554 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.35€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified A Bird Story into these genres:

Indie Story Rich Great Soundtrack Pixel Graphics Short RPGMaker Adventure Singleplayer Interactive Fiction 2D RPG Atmospheric Visual Novel Emotional Retro Walking Simulator Casual Surreal Top-Down Cute

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: XP, Vista, 7, 8
Processor: > Intel Pentium III 800 MHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1024x768 High Color +
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Usually runs on anything more than a baked potato.

MacOS

OS: OS X 10.6.8
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon HD 2400 or comparable
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: Usually runs on anything more than a baked potato.

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or higher
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Graphics: Radeon HD 2400 or comparable
Storage: 200 MB available space
Additional Notes: This too usually runs on anything more than a baked potato; but one that you'd have to do the baking yourself and potentially tasting better afterwards.

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Nice short story to pass the time, definitely worth at 80% off.

Feb. 2025

A Bird Story is the second game released within the Kan Gao universe. It was released as a little teaser for the next full title, Finding Paradise, but it's recommended to play after said title by the devs. While more than a little confusing on when to play the games in the series, this adventure was cute and continued to have a great soundtrack. While loving the first game, this title left a lot to be desired. It presents a raw story about companionship and showed how subjective decisions can be in the real world. I liked it, but could probably complain more about it than praise. I'm still going to recommend it because I think it will add a lot character development for Finding Paradise, but could probably be skipped.

Jan. 2025

Good game i guess... Nice soundtrack, it's basically there where it shines. After completing it, seems its main purpose is to set the stage for the next game called ( maybe? ) Finding Paradise. Hope i will be rewarded at the next game, as of now this one just takes a barely positive review...

Dec. 2024

Positives - It is a Story with a Bird - Absolutely beautiful soundtrack Negatives - Little to no combat - Barely any collectibles - Game basically tells you what to do - No experience or levelling system - Limited movement options - No cosmetic customisation - No dialogue options - Really only one boss battle - No sexualised female characters - No New Game + - No deep lore to explore - No co-op or battle royale mode - No battle pass - Wait these are just more positives Okay time for the real review: If this is an 'experimental' game, then I would call the experiment a resounding success. I haven't played any of Freebird's other games, so maybe that's a good thing after reading other reviews of people who were expecting something like their other games. All I knew going into it was it was a story about a boy and a bird. And that's sort of what it is, but it's so much more. I would recommend going into it without knowing too much, as long as you enjoy slower-paced games that tell a story, I think you'll enjoy the couple of hours spent in this game. I felt such strong feelings of empathy with the boy, I understood him and went on a journey with him both in the real world and his daydreams. The humanity and connection was so well done, and all without dialogue or walls of text. Simple gestures, movements, little exclamation marks or facial expressions convey everything needed. I shared his hopes, his dreams, his disdain for school - well, that part probably already existed! His daydreams blended into reality magically, and I particularly liked the forest exploration bits. The ending was bittersweet, and made this blackened husk of a heart actually feel something. If you think games can be art, you should play this absolute work of art.

Aug. 2024

Why you should play this game: - Title is accurate; it is a story that prominently features a bird - Prequel to Finding Paradise in the To The Moon series - Imaginative - Short - Good soundtrack - No dialog means it's accessible across all languages Why you shouldn't play this game: - Walking simulator - Sees no need to further explain itself (something that isn't entirely clarified in Finding Paradise) - May come off a bit odd if one hasn't played any other games in the series

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