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Birth cover art

Birth

Madison Karrh · 2023-02-17

SteamMicrosoft Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 17, 2023 (Mac), Feb 17, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 28, 2023 (Xbox One), Feb 15, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

You are alone. You will build a creature, a partner, a wet warm heart, a collection of bones.

9
playing now
96%
positive of 4.2k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
75/100
IGDB user rating (14 ratings)
1.5h
to beat · rushed 1h · completionist 2h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$10.99
steam price (US)

9 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Birth is a 2023 puzzle video game developed by Madison Karrh and published by Wings Interactive.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 9 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 636 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~80/week).
  • · Review velocity up 14% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 14% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 84k–189k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,198 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$10.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $3.84 at Steam (2026-05-09) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $10.99 · on sale 10 of 22 observed days · $7.15 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
25625620232026Week of 2023-02-01: 191 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 127 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 256 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 152 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 179 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 86 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 92 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 175 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 124 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 98 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 62 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 49 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 100 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 109 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 137 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 65 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 66 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 45 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 194 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 53 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 7 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1622026-08-07 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 5 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 7 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 15 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 6 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 16 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 8 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 8 players2026-08-10 17:00 — 7 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 8 players2026-08-11 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 11 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 12 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 11 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 6 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 6 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 6 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 5 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 5 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 4 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 2 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 9 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$10.99$3.842023-02-172026-08-282023-02-17 — best price $9.892023-04-19 — best price $9.892023-06-30 — best price $8.792023-08-10 — best price $10.992023-10-29 — best price $10.992023-11-28 — best price $10.992024-01-04 — best price $10.992024-03-10 — best price $10.992024-03-21 — best price $10.992024-04-21 — best price $10.992024-05-30 — best price $10.992024-07-11 — best price $10.992024-07-26 — best price $10.992024-09-09 — best price $10.992024-11-04 — best price $10.992024-12-04 — best price $10.992025-01-02 — best price $10.992025-01-25 — best price $10.992025-03-08 — best price $10.992025-03-20 — best price $10.992025-05-17 — best price $10.992025-07-10 — best price $6.042025-08-22 — best price $5.492025-09-29 — best price $4.942025-10-20 — best price $4.942025-12-08 — best price $4.942025-12-18 — best price $4.392026-01-15 — best price $6.592026-03-06 — best price $6.042026-03-19 — best price $5.492026-05-09 — best price $3.842026-06-25 — best price $4.942026-07-31 — best price $5.492026-08-28 — best price $10.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1602026-05-30 — 4 pageviews2026-06-02 — 6 pageviews2026-06-05 — 6 pageviews2026-06-08 — 10 pageviews2026-06-11 — 10 pageviews2026-06-14 — 12 pageviews2026-06-17 — 4 pageviews2026-06-20 — 8 pageviews2026-06-23 — 10 pageviews2026-06-26 — 9 pageviews2026-06-29 — 7 pageviews2026-07-02 — 10 pageviews2026-07-05 — 4 pageviews2026-07-08 — 7 pageviews2026-07-11 — 3 pageviews2026-07-14 — 6 pageviews2026-07-17 — 4 pageviews2026-07-20 — 8 pageviews2026-07-23 — 7 pageviews2026-07-26 — 6 pageviews2026-07-29 — 7 pageviews2026-08-01 — 9 pageviews2026-08-04 — 5 pageviews2026-08-07 — 2 pageviews2026-08-10 — 8 pageviews2026-08-13 — 4 pageviews2026-08-16 — 9 pageviews2026-08-19 — 4 pageviews2026-08-22 — 3 pageviews2026-08-25 — 0 pageviews2026-08-27 — 9 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

7
achievements tracked
94.2%
earned "baker"
76.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Spanish - Latin America

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,29963%7
Xbox One (Xbox)12266%10
Switch (Nintendo)190%0

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

Player tags

CuteIndieHorrorPuzzlePhysicsSurrealRelaxingStylizedAdventureHand-drawn

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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