Black Bird
This is the tale of a young girl who dies one day on a street corner and is reborn as the ominous Black Bird. Become the calamity, ‘Black Bird’, and destroy the kingdom. Experience the phantom opera in…
Black Bird is an indie developed by Onion Games, released 18 October 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Black Bird is
Black Bird is an indie game developed by Onion Games and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This is the tale of a young girl who dies one day on a street corner and is reborn as the ominous Black Bird. Become the calamity, ‘Black Bird’, and destroy the kingdom. Experience the phantom opera in wonderland!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Black Bird holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Black Bird launched on 18 October 2018, within three weeks of Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn and Assassin's Creed Odyssey. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Red Dead Redemption 2, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Return of the Obra Dinn, Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Official trailer
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