Bird Alone

George Batchelor

About this game

* Experience the Google Indie Game Festival winner *

◆ Become best friends with the loneliest bird in the world ◆

A journey of growth and loss with a best friend.
Talk about life, make music, draw pictures and write poetry.

Start each day answering your new friend's questions about life, death and the meaning of existence.

Guide the bird through daily life as it confronts the same worries as the rest of us.

◆ What's your favourite colour?
◆ Where are all my friends?
◆ Do you ever think about death?

What will your best friend ask you today?

◆ Draw a picture for the Art Gallery
◆ Write a poem together for the Book of Poetry
◆ Unlock today's plant for the Musical Garden
◆ Rub its belly

Watch each day turn to night
Ponder the changing seasons
Face the heaviness of growing old with a best friend.

Maybe this bird won't be so lonely after all.

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Content warning: Bird Alone contains themes and discussion of death. User discretion is advised for those sensitive to this topic.

Ratings and reviews

One of the best games I've played! You get to be friends (or best friends) with a parrot and name it (which is optional) and you get to feed it oranges, make memories like: making music, creating a poem, talking or chatting about life and you can say anything (choose what you want to say; you have 2 options) even though its abit limited, it's worth it! I honestly love it and I hope I get to experience more stuffs aswell. The sad thing is that it's not the full version and I can't get it.

SPOILERS The bird alone left me alone. I loved the game so much, the things we created together. The deep questions that made you think in a different way. But I would've never expected that the birb would DIE. We didn't even finish all the things cause I was busy sometimes. Literally made me cry when he was gone all of a sudden. Cannot recommend for people who are having a hard time already, this will only help for a short time and then make it only worse. Amazing idea, bad ending.

Good so far. scarily intelligent but sometimes sulky. Remember to feed it the oranges. Update: Trigger warning though. The bird "disappears" after "talking" very morbidly/negatively and having very slow actions and "voice". The leaves in the forest no longer make music on tapping and the waterfall as well looses the musical lilies and musical water. You are also left with the "paintings", "writings" and "garden" that you can only visit once per app open. Plants in the "garden" are still musical. It is also good that it signifies some "closure" if you visit the "writings" part you will see that the book has closed. I think it is a good therapy app to deal with loss and how to move on with just memories to reminisce once per visit. After a while, there is a closure message with an option to hatch a new egg.

What's new

Fixed some lingering bugs.