A Bird Story Critic Reviews

A Bird Story is a fantastic and short pixel art visual novel that you need to experience.

A Bird Story uses nuanced visual language to tell a wonderful, heartfelt story about friendship and loneliness.

A Bird Story is just a prequel and lasts only one hour, making you want more and more. With it, Kan Gao makes us eager to play Freebird Games' full followup to To The Moon, a game that we simply loved in 2011.

A beautiful short story about friendship, that serves as a link between To the Moon and its successor.

An interesting indie production, that can talk sweet words to the same public of titles like To The Moon. And don't forget the over the top musical score.

A small, simple, but incredibly affecting story that showcases the power of the ability to encourage empathy through the most basic expressions of humanity and imagination.

Even though it is more simple than To The Moon, A Bird Story is a great example of how games can tell a story. The basic graphics do ask some imagination, but the subtle emotions and excellent soundtrack make this an experience every story focused person will adore.

This story shared between a young boy and injured bird is absolutely worth a small chunk of your afternoon.

More of an experience than a game.

Without saying a word, A Bird Story is capable of giving an hour of absolute carelessness, deliberately choosing to sacrifice a gameplay that is configured as a useful element to interact only between the narrative interludes.

Shorter game time, simplified story and a little less emotion - still, A Bird Story is the masterpiece of the narration and the form. But somehow it is something we had already seen in better shape before.

A beautiful tale about friendship that is far from the quality of To the Moon. Its null interactivity and simple narrative are its worst enemies.

A Bird Story is not the great follow-up that we could expect from the team that created the beautiful To the Moon, but its a warn story about friendship involving a kid and a bird.

Beneath the mis-steps and the schmaltz, and beneath the dictatorial heft of the soundtrack - gorgeous and emotive, but laid on a little too heavily throughout - there's still that fascinating glimpse of a boy making the best of a lonely childhood.

Interactive story about friendship and adolescence, which will not fancy masses, but will be loved by empathetic individuals.

Visuals are A Bird Story’s biggest strength, and as far as the story goes... Well, I simply don’t know why someone decided it’s worth sharing with me.

The sentimental, dull, superficially interactive story isn’t worth a few cute moments and some interesting surrealism.

A hugely disappointing follow-up for To The Moon, whose trite and overly sentimental story feels long at just 60 minutes.