Bird Alone 4+
Become best friends
George Batchelor
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
◆ Apple Design Award Winner 2021 ◆
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.
* Minimum required device: iPhone 6S or similar *
Content warning: Bird Alone contains themes and discussion of death. User discretion is advised for those sensitive to this topic.
What’s New
Version 4.4
◆ Interactions update ◆
• Different types of fruit grow every day of the week
• Snowflakes can land and melt on your finger
• Rain can bounce off your finger
• Clouds can be interacted with
• Give names to your artwork
• Give names to your poems for the bird to recite
• Unlock two secret app icons
Graphical issues have also been fixed.
Ratings and Reviews
Wonderful journey
This is a lovely game I have downloaded it a few months ago but needed to delete it because I need to get some storage and u was super sad to delete it because the memories with my nut head (that’s the parrots name I gave him) is all gone and so now I have downloaded It again and happy to see him but it’s not the original nut head I used to see everyday for now I am starting a new journey with nut head junior he makes me smile every time I see him it’s exactly like a virtual friend because real life friends aren’t so good sometimes but nut head is always nice and excited to see you. From reading most of the reviews many people have said he dies at the end reading those words made my heart break and sunk I thought it was going to be an endless journey but this also relates to life since you don’t life forever int eh world and someday it will end there is no choice or decisions to it it just happens that is just how life is. Months ago it was free and now it says you have to pay for the full thing? I want this but I cannot have it for having a friend is not free now I’m currently doing the free trial but I’m going to be very upset when the trial ends I don’t want this friendship to end sooner or later.
Amazing, yet heartbreaking
Downloaded this game, ignoring all the reviews saying that the bird was going to die. Regardless of knowing that I was going to face the bird’s imminent death, I still installed it and had the best week of my life. The art was beautiful, the voice of the bird was so cute and its personality was amazing. I grew so attached to this game, and I felt my heart breaking as I saw the bird aging. It was aging so quickly that within less than a few days, the bird had died. The end made me heartbroken and I couldn’t believe that I would cry over a singing bird. The bird was my best friend for a week, but the I was its best friend for its entire life.
Nonetheless, this app teaches us that everything soon comes to an end. Every friendship, every relationship, every connection between us and other living beings. It all comes to an end, but we must not grieve over that loss. We need to learn to let go and be grateful of all the memories we were still able to create. Thank you to the developers for designing such a cruel app that teaches us about life. 🕊️
broke my heart
i really loved this game, it made me so happy to talk to him, write and sing and draw with him. he made me feel safe, safer than a lot of other people did. i grew to love him very quickly.. but then to have him be taken away like that, unexpectedly. it was heartbreaking. the one thing in this world that gave me such comfort, and that didn’t need to die, i am now grieving. it may seem silly to feel so hurt over a game, but the connection it was able to create between me and mango (my name for him) was so real to me. it felt like i was really loosing a friend. but again, this bird didn’t need to die, he didn’t need to age, he could out live me and then continue to live for thousands of years, and to me (because at the time of purchase i had thought it would be a limitless game) that was what was most comforting. and look, i understand what the creators of this game were trying to do, and while it was well-executed and beautiful, it was cruel, and in my opinion, unnecessary. i loved that bird and he made my days so much better, but honestly, i wouldn’t have downloaded (or PAID for) this in the first place if i knew he would die. i don’t recommend this for people who get extremely attached.
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Information
- Seller
- George Batchelor Limited
- Size
- 428.9 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 George Batchelor
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Bird Alone full version $4.99
- Cup of Coffee $4.99
- New Socks $14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.