To The Moon had a great story. I didn't expect as much from a short preview for the next game. Heck, this game doesn't even have dialogue, and there's hardly even any gameplay. But it seriously brought me to tears. If you have a soul, play this game. If you don't have a soul, play it anyway.

A lot of people argue that games like this aren't really "games". And if you break down what a "game" really is, it is hard to ague that this isn't a "game" in its own right. Granted, this isn't a style of game for everyone. I for one am glad these kinds of visual novel like games exist.

The visuals, story, and music are beautiful. The game is short, which is nice for those who have time constraints. If you'd like to be taken on a journey then don't hesitate to pick this up and give it a chance. It's timeless.

Wow, what can I say, this game really hit home for me.

The way the story is laid out and the exclusion of dialog I find allows you to experience it in your own way and allows you to relate it to your own personal experiences, making it feel like that much more of a connection if you do so. This also means everyones experience can be absolutely different.

The game is short, but nonetheless extremely well done. The music seems to be a perfect fit for each and every part of the game. They also seem to mix up the different types of emotions within the game and transition between them almost flawlessly.

This game is a bit hard to review without giving anything away about it.

If you enjoy interative story style games then I most definitely recommend grabbing this title, and extremely looking forward to Finding Paradise.

this game made me have feelings 100/10

pretty short/no dialogue but its a very sweet story and definitely worth 5 bucks

The title says it all, a story and an amazing one at that. Some may complain it's not a video game, but most video games are an experience and this definitely is one. It's moving and interactive enough to keep you invovled. Where it falters in actual gameplay it makes up for it ten fold with the story. Not only is the story heart warming, but the visual art is striking and appealing, worthy of being it's own art piece. The soundtrack played a nice role in making it emotional, since there is no dialog so I would grab it with the soundtrack just to have that great musical piece. You can decide if $4.99-6.99 is too much for a twoish hour long game, but I think when it goes on sale it's definitely worth the price.

First of all, if you're expecting this game to be To The Moon 2, don't buy it. Yet if you're looking for a beautiful and emotional story, then this is an amazing game. The gameplay is so simple, and the game is only an hour long, but the story is AMAZING. It doesn't need any dialogs or realistic animations to make you understand the protagonist's feelings. Just the beautiful, simpatethic animations and the marvelous music take you on an unforgettable feel trip. It's not as heartbreaking as To The Moon, but it's still amazing.
P.S. I'm still crying.

I usually make it a rule to never touch RPG maker games, but after how great To the Moon was, I figured I'd give this one a shot (it's made by the same person). I am so glad I did. I wouldn't call this much of a game, but it's a really good interactive story. Without a single line of written or spoken dialogue it still manages to be more emotionally moving than most games dream to be. It was short, sweet, and incredibly captivating. If you liked To the Moon or just want to try something different, definitely give this a shot

If you want to never be able to look at birds the same way on your daily commutes again, this is the lovely little experience for you.

I was very prone to asthma among other things when I was just a kid.

One time, I was so sick I couldn't do anything except cry due to the extreme discomfort.

My temperature was out of whack, my joints were in pain, and everything was spinning despite the fact that I was lying in bed.

My mom bought me a pet bird. It was just a Eurasian Tree Sparrow, I think. One she bought from peddlers outside of the local church she went and still goes to on Sundays.

She told me that once I feel better, I should give the bird a name.

I got better. The bird died. Never got the chance to give it a name.

Was it an angel? Sent down to alleviate my pain? And that once my pain went away, its job was done and that it had to leave?

That's not fair.

That's not freaking fair.

;~;/10 for making me refeel this feel.

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Spoiler >
A Bird Story is a game among To the Moon's first and second episodes.
The game is chronologically, before the events of To the Moon, as the kid in A Bird Story will be an old man.
A Bird Story tells the story of a boy who does not seem to have a lot of friends and gets his mother almost never seen. Accordingly, it is often left to their own and must always go home alone.
He comes one day at a bird is attacked by a badger. He can prevent him from being eaten , but arrives too late to him from a sprained wing to keep.
Then a friendship in which reality and fantasy merge develops more frequently with each other.
Gao could let off steam with some interesting effects.
At some point nature and concrete builds just seem to amalgamate into one fantastic place and the main character seems to be unaware of the phenomenon. There is an element of realistic fantasy to the world of ‘A Bird Story’ and staring at the backdrops and foregrounds were a particularly pleasant experience.
The game’s music, is great, is simple, lilting piano music, with a bit of some other stringed instrument- but it is nice.

You should your be aware that there is actually nothing more than an interactive movie with about an hour running time. So expect no extensive gameplay sections.
However, you must also fear any unnatural-looking puzzles. From time to time you have to press a few shortcuts, but that was about it in complexity.
Kan Gao has focused simply an interesting story to tell on what he has succeeded even without dialogue or even any lyrics. Even diverse latter, which can be found throughout the game have been made illegible. This is not so bad. Gao has done an amazing job at telling a story without words; I’m stunned by all the emotion he managed to fit into this short, wordless experience.

Score: 73 / 100

- A story-driven experience with no dialogues
- A mix between adventure game elements and classic RPG aesthetics
- An original soundtrack tailored to the narrative
- An espresso execution with no time drains


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A Bird Story is only an hour long, might contain even less gameplay than To The Moon, and tells a story without using a single word ... and it's awesome! "A boy finds an injured bird" might not sound like a great story, but it's so well animated that you can't help but chuckle or outright burst into laughter. It does get a bit sad towards the end, especially thanks to the amazing music, but it's not quite as dramatic as To The Moon was.

Does it have any flaws? Well, if you're bothered by the protagonist knocking on the floor instead of the door he's standing at. Sure. But if you know what you're getting into, it's satisfying from start to finish. And since fantasy and reality merge once in a while, the game uses some interesting effects.

So if you liked To The Moon, give A Bird Story a chance. Who knows when the next installment in the series will be released? By the way, if you stick with it all the way to the end, you will actually find out the name of the sequel. But I'm not going to spoil it ;)

A beautiful, kind, sweet short story about a boy and a bird.

Truly a work of art, not surpising from the TO THE MOON creator himself...many of the (granted minimal as they are) negative reviews apparently missed the "A simple & surreal 1-hour short about a boy and an injured bird -- a light interactive animation without dialogues." AND "*Note: This is not To the Moon 2, and is meant to be a much lighter, whimsical short. " before buying and complaining about there not being much gameplay or not like a sequel to his previous epic title...well, DOH...but they are correct; the game play is merely a distraction if anything....you almost don't WANT to play it at all...just let it go and EXPERIENCE the fantastic music and heartfelt story....I'd be fine with that too, because more than anyone I've ever seen create a "game"Kan Gao has the ability to invoke real emotion, and despite all obstacles to do so with such a heartwarming (but overdone) theme as friendship found, and then lost....and without even a single word. You Sir, are an artist of the highest calibur and I am positively obsessed with enjoying your next game (to the moon sequel) - THANK YOU!

There aren't many developers which make you feel a strong connection with characters and the story in their games. Kan Gao is one of the few which can do it really well, as you could already see in To the Moon.

Kan's next game, A Bird Story, is similar. You will smile most of the time when playing, sometimes laugh, sometimes feel sad.
The game isn't depressing as To the Moon was, so if you couldn't get through TtM, try A Bird Story instead.

It's amazing what a wordless story can do with your emotions. I want more games like this.

This is the best money grabber that I've paid for.
I still cry silently every night on bed when I remember this story.

10/10 would cry again.

A Bird Story is an emotional 1 hour short that is both a nice teaser of things to come for To The Moon fans but also a good entry for those unfamiliar with Kan Gao’s work. As it packs only one memory of “the boy” (there seem to be 7 more in the next game) it’s not as confusing and partly overwhelming as the previous iteration, it has this pace where you really can dive right into this beautifully crafted world. It’s joyful, remorseful, desperate and peaceful, a lot of emotions are lived through in this one hour and adventure fans are urged to take a look at this fine piece of bits and bytes.

Read the full thing (in English + German): http://www.xtgamer.de/2014/11/07/im-test-a-bird-story-in-a-world-after-to-the-moon/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpw_EetIRt8

A Bird Story, more than anything, feels like a story someone wanted to tell as opposed the one people are expecting.

It's a simple, entirely narrative driven experience about a young lonely boy finding a friend in an injured bird, which in many ways hits every note you would expect and never tries to do much outside of its familiar framework. But to look at it simply from that perspective would be missing what makes it so special.

There's a meticulous, firm vision guiding every scene of the game, instilling within a great amount of heart and humanity which is evident in even the smallest of details. There are no "big" reveals in A Bird Story; no end twist, character revelation, or plot point that suddenly opens the narrative up into anything more than its trying to be. And that's OK, because like To The Moon before it it's the tiny, ordinary moments which stand out as the most poignant. Sharing an ice cream cone or building a paper airplane become something memorable and emotional, causing me to smile and appreciate them for their simple existence.

Telling a story without and dialogue, regardless of complexity is no easy task, but A Bird Story is so perfectly designed around this (arguable) limitation that it never feels as if something is being left out for the sake of some forced design decision or challenge. It causes small character actions to have that much more weight behind them, every visual and audio cue serving a purpose and every tiny sprite showing an immense amount of emotion and character that brings the world to life, and makes the lack of dialogue a strength as opposed a hindrance.

The experience crosses between fantasy and reality on a regular basis, but within the context of the game it never feels out of place or something that somehow couldn't happen. There's something magical about A Bird Story that allows these moments to exist without having to be grounded in logic or reason, and it makes for an experience that's easy to lose yourself in as you stop caring about the "why" as everything simply fits.

It's probably fair to say that A Bird Story won't have the same effect on people or leave as long lasting an impression as To The Moon, but it was never supposed to. It's an uncomplicated story told in a way that makes it enchanting, occasionally stumbling with its pacing but ultimately delivering a story that, more than anything, left me smiling and wanting to share it with the people around me.

Not what you might expect as a follow-up of To the Moon, but a powerful and worthwhile experience in itself.
There is no dialogue in A Bird Story, and for me it lasted 72 minutes without feeling a bit too long. There are hilarious sequences, nice, quaint moments, and one part in particular I found to be strikingly emotive.
If you're expecting to cry like you did at To the Moon... don't. It's not that kind of game. It's a surreal experience, and the blend between dream and reality is done fantastically well. As usual, Kan Gao's use of symbolism is very effective. I like to read too far into stories, so that appealed to me.
I bought this at at a slight discount, but I wouldn't hesitate to pay the regular steam price. Definitely, definitely worth a buy.

Since To The Moon, Kan Gao did it again. That one game developer who can make people feel greatly attached to every each one of characters.

Do not expect something like To The Moon that has dialogues which players can absorb conversations between the characters. A Bird Story is a 1-hour interactive animation game, story-driven experience, played along with beautiful background music, very much less gameplay aside from walking and interacting with interactable objects and lighter story than To The Moon. It's a story about a young boy who saves an injured bird, then their friendship starts. Magically, fantasy-ish atmosphere and the affection between the boy and the bird, making you smile, lightly laugh a little, then smile a bit more.

Play it yourself to understand what pure wordless story-driven game can actually do.

Although this game isn't as deep and tear jerking as Too The Moon. This hour long story is wonderous little story with real heart. It reminds me of Disney shorts like Paperman. Worth a play at the $5 price range and definately worth supporting Kan Gao to make more masterpieces!