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2014 · Story Rich · Short · Interactive Fiction

How long isA Bird Story?

by Freebird Games

1.5 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 1 hour and 2 hours

A Bird Story cover

A Bird Story among the 133 interactive fiction games here

The whole tier list
BPlayed tier

#55

of 133

ranked by owners here who played past two hours

39%
got past 2 hours
+4 on the kind's 35%
1%
past 20 hours
about the kind's 3%
78%
launched it
+30 on the kind's 49%
125
libraries own it
1 in 20 of the 2,472 read here
A Bird Story ↓
#1 Dispatch#133
22% of its owners here never launched it. More or fewer than the next game?Play higher or lower

Short for an interactive fiction game: 1.5 hours for the typical player, shorter than 172 of 189 interactive fiction games here.

Do the first two hours of A Bird Story tell you?

In the first two hours85%recommend it

After that85%recommend it

15 in 100 said no: 4 after the window had closed, 11 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 1.5 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1 hour and 2 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 10,800 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

75% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 85% of those recommend it. After the window, 85% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 25% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 1.5 hours in.

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When would you get there?

2days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 1.5 hours on Monday, November 16.

Half of its reviewers had played between 1 and 2 hours: tonight to Nov 16 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

How far do players get in A Bird Story?

Launched it 100%

Earned its most common achievement 49%

Earned a typical achievement 49%

How this is counted

Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.

Is A Bird Story worth it?

Is A Bird Story worth it? Yes.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical interactive fiction game charges: $2.66 an hour

  • Liked

    85% recommend it after the refund windowmost interactive fiction games: 91%

  • Gets played

    78% of owners here have played itmost interactive fiction games: 49%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $3.99, the typical player's 1.5 hours come to $2.66 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 85% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of A Bird Story costs about what the typical one of 189 interactive fiction games here charges $2.50.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (interactive fiction games) is what the game is first, as a model that knows games named it once from a list of Steam's kinds (for a game it did not know, its strongest Steam tags name it), among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Where can I play A Bird Story today?

Almost anywhere

PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Switch.

  1. todayPC2014
  2. todayXbox Series2026
  3. todayPS52026
  4. todaySwitch2026
How this is counted

From IGDB, found by its Steam app: the machines A Bird Story came out on and the year it first reached each, and the collections, ports, remasters and remakes that carry it. A machine counts for today while it, or the one after it, still plays its games and its store sells them: Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series, PC and phones. A PC release from before 2005 counts as gone, unless Steam sells it. IGDB does not say when a store stopped selling a release, so a delisted one can still show here.

Would you like A Bird Story?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like A Bird Story, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long A Bird Story would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

@gwynn7 holds this page

  1. 1st@gwynn73 h
  2. 2nd@eltorga1.9 h
  3. 3rd@danonyyy1.2 h
  4. 4th@tutel1.2 h
  5. 5th@radu10750 min

Public pages here, by the hours Steam has on this game. From two hours up, the most hours holds the page.

What did people here do with A Bird Story?

  • 1 in 1,815

    Name 100 runs say its name: players asked to name 100 games from memory

How this is counted

Counted from the Steam libraries read here and the pages kept here, not from all of Steam's players. A case is one owner, or one in twenty of them when there are more.

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  1. 1

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    A Bird Story, but first-person, and even better loved

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  2. 2

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    Much the same as A Bird Story

    Loved · 90%Games like If Found

  3. 3

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  4. 4

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    Loved · 97%Games like Until Then

  5. 5

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  6. 6

    What Remains of Edith Finch

    A Bird Story, but a mystery, and psychological horror

    Loved · 96%Games like What Remains of Edith Finch

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How this is counted

Its own series apart, where it plays alike; then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the better known ahead among the about as alike. A model that knows games read the list once: the ones it said do not play like this game are left out, the closest come first. Under each name, what sets it apart from A Bird Story: a kind of game it is that A Bird Story is not, a feature its tags carry that A Bird Story's barely do, how many hours people play it, how its reviewers feel. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.

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