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Ostrich Runner cover art

Ostrich Runner

Geleos · First Games Interactive · 2020-12-09

Steam

CasualRacing

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Apr 09, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Ostrich Runner – is the fascinating animated arcade racing where the main heroes are funny and a little bit crazy ostriches.

83%
positive of 64 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

Among millions of stars in our universe there is a small planet of Ostriches. They leaded a steady life, they spent a lot of time with their neighbors, different animals and birds; they settled down to a married life and raised the families. Ostriches tried to save calm and peace in their world… But there is nothing perfect in our universe. The cruel and crazy Professor decided to enslave this beautiful planet with the help of ostriches themselves. Under cloud of night the Professor’s assistant wriggled way into the children’s rooms and kidnapped all of the chickens in the shell. The crazy Pr(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 18% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 50% of 18,133 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.3k–2.9k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 64 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at WinGameStore (2019-12-20) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
151520202026Week of 2020-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPLAN PvPShared/Split Screen PvPShared/Split ScreenFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Player tags

3DCuteFunnyArcadeCasualRacingRunnerCartoonCartoonyStylized

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.