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BLACK BIRD

Onion Games · 2018-10-30

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Side view

Releases: Dec 16, 2021 (PlayStation 4), Oct 30, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 30, 2018 (Mac), Oct 18, 2018 (Nintendo Switch)

Become the Black Bird in this dark-fantasy shooting game with an operatic twist! This is the tale of a young girl who dies a pitiful death, but is reborn as the calamitous Black Bird whose destiny is to destroy the kingdom.

92%
positive of 108 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
68/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
4.67★
PlayStation Store rating (42 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$13.29
steam price (US)
Black Bird is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Onion Games. The game was directed by Yoshiro Kimura and released for Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows and MacOS on October 18, 2018. A PlayStation 4 version followed on December 16, 2021.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 18,206 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.7k–6.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 108 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$13.29-30%

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $9.49 at Steam (2024-12-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $18.99 · on sale 9 of 17 observed days · $3.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
181820182026Week of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$9.492018-10-312026-09-222018-10-31 — best price $19.992019-02-04 — best price $12.992019-04-11 — best price $19.992019-08-08 — best price $9.992019-11-01 — best price $19.992020-06-25 — best price $11.992020-11-02 — best price $19.992021-05-01 — best price $9.992021-08-19 — best price $19.992021-11-06 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $19.992022-04-28 — best price $13.992022-06-23 — best price $13.292022-09-21 — best price $18.992023-03-16 — best price $13.292023-05-08 — best price $18.992023-08-10 — best price $13.292023-10-02 — best price $18.992023-12-21 — best price $11.392024-02-14 — best price $18.992024-05-15 — best price $13.292024-07-14 — best price $18.992024-10-25 — best price $13.292024-12-04 — best price $18.992025-02-03 — best price $13.292025-03-20 — best price $18.992025-06-26 — best price $9.492025-08-07 — best price $18.992025-10-30 — best price $13.292026-01-05 — best price $18.992026-03-19 — best price $13.292026-06-15 — best price $18.992026-07-30 — best price $15.192026-09-22 — best price $13.29
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1802026-06-25 — 1 pageviews2026-06-28 — 1 pageviews2026-07-01 — 4 pageviews2026-07-04 — 2 pageviews2026-07-07 — 5 pageviews2026-07-10 — 3 pageviews2026-07-13 — 4 pageviews2026-07-16 — 3 pageviews2026-07-19 — 6 pageviews2026-07-22 — 7 pageviews2026-07-25 — 3 pageviews2026-07-28 — 1 pageviews2026-07-31 — 3 pageviews2026-08-03 — 1 pageviews2026-08-06 — 7 pageviews2026-08-09 — 2 pageviews2026-08-12 — 4 pageviews2026-08-15 — 7 pageviews2026-08-18 — 4 pageviews2026-08-21 — 8 pageviews2026-08-24 — 3 pageviews2026-08-27 — 5 pageviews2026-08-30 — 5 pageviews2026-09-02 — 0 pageviews2026-09-05 — 6 pageviews2026-09-08 — 3 pageviews2026-09-11 — 8 pageviews2026-09-14 — 5 pageviews2026-09-17 — 6 pageviews2026-09-20 — 3 pageviews2026-09-22 — 3 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

22
achievements tracked
57.1%
earned "Max Life Explosion"
4.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing2 DLC

6 supported languages: English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Spanish - Spain

Post-launch support: 2 DLC released, first 2018-10-31, latest 2018-11-29 (Steam store data)

Player tags

2DIndieRetroActionArcadeFantasySoundtrackBullet HellDark FantasyReplay Value

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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