The Game Census
Late Bird cover art

Late Bird

Vladimir Slav · Coldwild Games · 2022-01-20

Steam

Indie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 20, 2022 (Mac), Jan 20, 2022 (Linux)

Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.

95%
positive of 122 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 21% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 40% of 35,641 Indie games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.4k–5.5k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 122 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.49 at Steam (2025-03-13)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $0.99 · on sale 5 of 10 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
282820222026Week of 2022-01-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$0.99$0.492022-01-202026-07-092022-01-20 — best price $0.892022-06-01 — best price $0.742022-06-24 — best price $0.742022-08-19 — best price $0.742022-11-22 — best price $0.742022-12-13 — best price $0.742022-12-23 — best price $0.742023-03-16 — best price $0.742023-03-27 — best price $0.742023-06-13 — best price $0.742023-06-29 — best price $0.742023-08-07 — best price $0.742023-11-21 — best price $0.742023-12-21 — best price $0.742024-02-20 — best price $0.742024-03-14 — best price $0.742024-04-09 — best price $0.742024-06-27 — best price $0.742024-08-06 — best price $0.742024-11-27 — best price $0.742024-12-20 — best price $0.742025-03-13 — best price $0.492025-03-27 — best price $0.492025-06-26 — best price $0.492025-08-06 — best price $0.492025-09-29 — best price $0.492025-11-01 — best price $0.492025-12-18 — best price $0.492026-03-19 — best price $0.492026-06-25 — best price $0.492026-07-09 — best price $0.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, Russian, Latvian, Portuguese - Brazil

Player tags

2DDarkDramaIndieCasualLinearNarrativeHand-drawnMinimalistText-Based

Census log

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

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