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Bomb Chicken

Nitrome · 2019-04-16

SteamPlayStation Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 01, 2020 (iOS), Apr 16, 2019 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 16, 2019 (Mac), Nov 01, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Apr 01, 2020 (Android), Apr 30, 2019 (PlayStation 4)

After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer.

1
playing now
89%
positive of 352 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
83/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

1 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Bomb Chicken is a 2D puzzle-platform game developed and published by Nitrome. The game was first released in the Americas and Europe on July 12, 2018, for the Nintendo Switch game console through the Nintendo eShop download service, followed by versions for macOS and Microsoft Windows in April 2019 and one for PlayStation 4 in April 2019. Ports for Android and iOS were released in April 2020.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 50% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 8.8k–21k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 352 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.74 at Steam (2020-01-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

202026-08-12 02:00 — 1 players2026-08-12 18:00 — 1 players2026-08-13 09:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 01:00 — 1 players2026-08-14 17:00 — 1 players2026-08-15 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 0 players2026-08-16 17:00 — 0 players2026-08-17 09:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 00:00 — 0 players2026-08-18 16:00 — 0 players2026-08-19 08:00 — 0 players2026-08-20 00:00 — 2 players2026-08-20 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-21 07:00 — 0 players2026-08-21 23:00 — 1 players2026-08-22 15:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-23 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-24 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 06:00 — 0 players2026-08-25 22:00 — 1 players2026-08-26 14:00 — 0 players2026-08-27 07:00 — 1 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 0 players2026-08-28 15:00 — 0 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 1 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 0 players2026-08-30 12:00 — 1 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$3.742019-04-172026-07-092019-04-17 — best price $13.492019-06-26 — best price $8.992019-10-28 — best price $8.992019-11-26 — best price $8.992019-12-19 — best price $7.492020-01-23 — best price $3.742020-03-12 — best price $3.742020-06-25 — best price $4.492020-12-22 — best price $7.492022-12-22 — best price $7.492023-03-16 — best price $7.492023-12-21 — best price $5.992024-03-14 — best price $5.992024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992024-12-19 — best price $5.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-06-26 — best price $5.992025-09-29 — best price $5.992025-11-10 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $5.992026-06-25 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportFamily Sharing

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Player tags

2DIndieActionCasualAdventurePlatformerPixel GraphicsPuzzle-Platformer

Census log

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

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