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Birthdays the Beginning cover art

Birthdays the Beginning

Arc System Works · NIS America, Inc. · 2017-05-09

SteamPlayStation Store

Simulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 09, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 19, 2017 (PlayStation 4), Jun 08, 2018 (Nintendo Switch)

The origins of the world are yours to decide in this engaging and open-ended builder experience! Shape the geography, control the temperature, and give rise to diverse lifeforms. Witness the birth of an entirely new ecosystem, made with your very own hands!

3
playing now
64%
positive of 988 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
71/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
50/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$19.99
steam price (US)

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

Birthdays the Beginning is a life simulation sandbox game developed by Arc System Works for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in 2017. A Nintendo Switch port, called Happy Birthdays , was released in 2018.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 33% of 6,674 Simulation games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 25k–59k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 988 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.99 at Steam (2022-10-17)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 11 of 24 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

902026-08-11 21:00 — 2 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 2 players2026-08-13 04:00 — 4 players2026-08-13 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-14 12:00 — 4 players2026-08-15 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 4 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 2 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 3 players2026-08-17 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 11:00 — 3 players2026-08-19 03:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 02:00 — 3 players2026-08-21 18:00 — 3 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-23 17:00 — 6 players2026-08-24 09:00 — 2 players2026-08-25 01:00 — 4 players2026-08-25 17:00 — 8 players2026-08-26 09:00 — 3 players2026-08-27 01:00 — 5 players2026-08-27 17:00 — 9 players2026-08-28 08:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 00:00 — 3 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 5 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 3 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$39.99$3.992017-05-092026-07-092017-05-09 — best price $29.992017-07-10 — best price $29.992017-09-07 — best price $29.992017-12-14 — best price $19.992018-02-19 — best price $15.992018-05-07 — best price $15.992018-07-06 — best price $39.992018-10-26 — best price $13.992018-12-31 — best price $39.992019-03-07 — best price $39.992019-05-10 — best price $9.992019-07-31 — best price $11.992019-10-09 — best price $39.992019-12-07 — best price $39.992020-01-20 — best price $9.992020-03-18 — best price $9.992020-05-11 — best price $7.992020-08-07 — best price $7.492020-11-17 — best price $9.992021-02-01 — best price $5.992021-04-02 — best price $5.992021-06-22 — best price $9.992021-11-18 — best price $5.002021-12-22 — best price $4.992022-03-12 — best price $19.992022-06-14 — best price $19.992022-09-30 — best price $4.992022-12-12 — best price $3.992023-04-25 — best price $3.992023-07-21 — best price $4.002023-11-17 — best price $3.992024-02-26 — best price $3.992024-06-27 — best price $3.992024-09-16 — best price $19.992024-12-13 — best price $4.002025-03-31 — best price $19.992025-07-11 — best price $19.992025-10-08 — best price $19.992025-12-11 — best price $3.992026-07-09 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

3372026-05-30 — 14 pageviews2026-06-02 — 32 pageviews2026-06-05 — 18 pageviews2026-06-08 — 11 pageviews2026-06-11 — 13 pageviews2026-06-14 — 15 pageviews2026-06-17 — 14 pageviews2026-06-20 — 13 pageviews2026-06-23 — 7 pageviews2026-06-26 — 22 pageviews2026-06-29 — 17 pageviews2026-07-02 — 33 pageviews2026-07-05 — 15 pageviews2026-07-08 — 14 pageviews2026-07-11 — 10 pageviews2026-07-14 — 13 pageviews2026-07-17 — 14 pageviews2026-07-20 — 25 pageviews2026-07-23 — 10 pageviews2026-07-26 — 16 pageviews2026-07-29 — 19 pageviews2026-08-01 — 21 pageviews2026-08-04 — 18 pageviews2026-08-07 — 25 pageviews2026-08-10 — 22 pageviews2026-08-13 — 22 pageviews2026-08-16 — 18 pageviews2026-08-19 — 19 pageviews2026-08-22 — 19 pageviews2026-08-25 — 13 pageviews2026-08-27 — 16 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

43
achievements tracked
92%
earned "Cubecraft"
7.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing4 DLC

9 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)1,3843%43
Steam (Steam)8900%43
PS4 (PlayStation)19112%43
PS4 (PlayStation)16311%43

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

Player tags

CuteCasualSandboxGod GameDinosaursSimulationSingleplayerFamily FriendlyCreature Collector

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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