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BirdGut

Micah Boursier · 2019-05-09

Steam

AdventureCasualFree To PlayIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: May 09, 2019 (Mac), May 09, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

BirdGut is a hand-drawn 2d puzzle-platformer from the perspective of an outcast bee who gets eaten by a bird, and discovers that the bird's internal organs are not organs at all, but facilities in which the consumed insects are brainwashed and enslaved. Experience this bizarre one-man project for yourself.

BirdGut is an Adventure, Casual, Free To Play, and Indie game released in 2019, free-to-play, with an estimated 200,000 to 500,000 owners and Overwhelmingly Positive reviews (95% of 5194 reviews).

4
playing now
95%
positive of 5.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
1
Nexus mods (9 downloads)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Free
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

BirdGut trailer thumbnail

BirdGut Official Trailer

≈3,006 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 175 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~22/week).
  • · Review velocity down 24% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 5% of 28,763 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-30

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
35735720192026Week of 2019-05-01: 357 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 272 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 81 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 280 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 138 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 160 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 143 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 96 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 91 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 88 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 87 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 80 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 63 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 56 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 58 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 60 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2112026-09-15 13:00 — 6 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 2 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 5 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 4 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 1 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 5 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 9 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 8 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 1 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 2 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 4 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 3 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 4 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 4 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 8 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 21 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 7 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
824May 2019Aug 2026May 2019 — avg 82 · peak 255Aug 2019 — avg 26 · peak 59Nov 2019 — avg 13 · peak 29Feb 2020 — avg 18 · peak 38May 2020 — avg 22 · peak 47Aug 2020 — avg 15 · peak 32Nov 2020 — avg 17 · peak 43Feb 2021 — avg 15 · peak 29May 2021 — avg 10 · peak 26Aug 2021 — avg 10 · peak 23Nov 2021 — avg 10 · peak 28Feb 2022 — avg 14 · peak 37May 2022 — avg 11 · peak 25Aug 2022 — avg 9 · peak 21Nov 2022 — avg 7 · peak 21Feb 2023 — avg 6 · peak 19May 2023 — avg 7 · peak 19Aug 2023 — avg 18 · peak 59Nov 2023 — avg 10 · peak 26Feb 2024 — avg 16 · peak 34May 2024 — avg 8 · peak 18Aug 2024 — avg 11 · peak 25Nov 2024 — avg 7 · peak 17Feb 2025 — avg 8 · peak 19May 2025 — avg 5 · peak 14Aug 2025 — avg 6 · peak 17Nov 2025 — avg 5 · peak 13Feb 2026 — avg 6 · peak 17May 2026 — avg 5 · peak 16Aug 2026 — avg 5 · peak 13
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Completion

22
achievements tracked
67.1%
earned "Get Eaten"
18.9%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)2,66625%22

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DFunnyIndieCasualPuzzleAdventureDifficultHand-drawnPlatformerSouls-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.