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Star Birds

Toukana Interactive · 2025-09-10

Steam

CasualIndieSimulationStrategyEarly Access

Franchise: Kurzgesagt · Modes: Single player

Releases: Sep 10, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Star Birds is a chill factory building and resource management game. Mine asteroids and create brain-twisting production networks. Level by level, you guide your feathered crew to new interstellar horizons!

Star Birds is a Casual, Indie, Simulation, Strategy game released in 2025, priced at $19.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 3131 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

92%
positive of 3.1k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$19.99
steam price (US)
Star Birds is a 2025 factory simulation and resource management game based on asteroid mining developed and published by Toukana Interactive in collaboration with Kurzgesagt. The game released in early access on 10 September 2025.

Trailer

Star Birds trailer thumbnail

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≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 167 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~21/week).
  • · Review velocity down 22% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (812 reviews).
  • · Top 4% of 29,523 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 63k–141k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,131 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $14.99 at Steam (2026-01-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $19.99 · on sale 8 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
77877820252026Week of 2025-09-10: 778 positiveWeek of 2025-09-10: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-09-17: 408 positiveWeek of 2025-09-17: 29 negativeWeek of 2025-09-24: 109 positiveWeek of 2025-09-24: 23 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-10-08: 52 positiveWeek of 2025-10-08: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-15: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-10-15: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-10-22: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-10-22: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-29: 23 positiveWeek of 2025-10-29: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-11-05: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-11-05: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-12: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-11-12: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-19: 110 positiveWeek of 2025-11-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-11-26: 146 positiveWeek of 2025-11-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-03: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-03: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-12-10: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-12-10: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-17: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-12-17: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-12-24: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-12-24: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-12-31: 36 positiveWeek of 2025-12-31: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-07: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-07: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-14: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-01-14: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-21: 65 positiveWeek of 2026-01-21: 16 negativeWeek of 2026-01-28: 110 positiveWeek of 2026-01-28: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-02-04: 41 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-02-11: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-18: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-02-18: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-02-25: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-02-25: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-04: 15 positiveWeek of 2026-03-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-11: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-11: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-18: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-03-18: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-25: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-08: 19 positiveWeek of 2026-04-08: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-15: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-04-15: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-22: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-04-29: 13 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-05-06: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-13: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-20: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-05-20: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-27: 84 positiveWeek of 2026-05-27: 14 negativeWeek of 2026-06-03: 47 positiveWeek of 2026-06-03: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-06-10: 28 positiveWeek of 2026-06-10: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-06-17: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-17: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-24: 22 positiveWeek of 2026-06-24: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-07-08: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-08: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-15: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-07-15: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-22: 24 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-29: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-05: 13 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$19.99$14.992025-09-102026-07-302025-09-10 — best price $17.992025-09-24 — best price $19.992025-10-24 — best price $17.992025-11-07 — best price $19.992025-12-07 — best price $15.992026-01-05 — best price $19.992026-01-22 — best price $14.992026-02-05 — best price $19.992026-03-07 — best price $15.992026-03-10 — best price $19.992026-03-19 — best price $15.992026-03-26 — best price $19.992026-04-09 — best price $15.992026-04-23 — best price $19.992026-05-26 — best price $14.992026-06-09 — best price $19.992026-06-25 — best price $15.992026-07-09 — best price $19.992026-07-16 — best price $14.992026-07-30 — best price $19.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

179142026-05-31 — 109 pageviews2026-06-04 — 62 pageviews2026-06-08 — 62 pageviews2026-06-12 — 35 pageviews2026-06-16 — 23 pageviews2026-06-20 — 40 pageviews2026-06-24 — 22 pageviews2026-06-28 — 37 pageviews2026-07-02 — 23 pageviews2026-07-06 — 25 pageviews2026-07-10 — 24 pageviews2026-07-14 — 25 pageviews2026-07-18 — 25 pageviews2026-07-22 — 26 pageviews2026-07-26 — 26 pageviews2026-07-30 — 20 pageviews2026-08-03 — 26 pageviews2026-08-07 — 41 pageviews2026-08-11 — 43 pageviews2026-08-15 — 30 pageviews2026-08-19 — 30 pageviews2026-08-23 — 24 pageviews2026-08-27 — 26 pageviews2026-08-31 — 179 pageviews2026-09-04 — 23 pageviews2026-09-08 — 22 pageviews2026-09-12 — 28 pageviews2026-09-16 — 36 pageviews2026-09-20 — 22 pageviews2026-09-24 — 26 pageviews2026-09-28 — 21 pageviews2026-10-02 — 24 pageviews2026-10-06 — 47 pageviews2026-10-10 — 50 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

59
achievements tracked
91.8%
earned "Sector 1 completed!"
2.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsFamily Sharing3 DLC

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

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2025-09-10 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,7081%59

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Census log

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

Recent updates

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