Songbird Symphony
A heart-warming journey of discovery, as orphaned chick 'Birb' sets off to find his true origins. Follow this cheerful little bouncing bird who revels in singing, and guide him through this magical journey of stunning pixel art and gorgeous animation that shapes itself to your musical interactions! Chirp to activate platforms, and sing to the residents of the forest, learning new notes to aid you in captivating rhythm battles against the creatures of this sprawling, enchanting world. In this journey of self-discovery, Birb will come across dozens of cheery denizens with joyful and bubbly animations. Fly your way across areas rendered in beautiful pixel graphics as you learn more about the tales of the forest. Come to the aid of the creatures of the forest to find hidden musical notes scattered across the levels. Your good deeds will release extra layers of beats that will blend harmoniously with the soundtrack, bringing further the atmosphere of the world to life.
Game Discussion
Steam User 6
Songbird Symphony is a game that mixes so many genres, like side-scrolling platformer, rhythm, Metroidvania, exploration, and puzzle adventure.
You are in the world of various types of birds, and also you play as a little bird.
The art style is pixelated and colourful. The birds' design is cute and likable.
The main focus of the game is to explore and to unfold the story of the main character. The story is decent and a bit emotional at times. You will do rhythm-based challenges along the journey. There are some lightweight puzzles.
All the interactions are text-based. Music is good. Overall, I liked the tracks; they felt samey to an extent, though.
The rhythm-based challenges require expert-level button pressing in terms of speed and accuracy (it's quite improbable to get a perfect score). I don't know how it passed the playtesting. But these challenges do not break the progress, and thankfully there are no achievements related to that. You can try to master these challenges, but I would suggest against doing so, since it's not worth it.
I played it with a controller. You may try playing with a keyboard to get good scores on rhythm challenges.
There are some collectibles that encourage exploration. No maps though. And a fast-travelling mechanism is not optimal. So, you may have to do some back-and-forth to get optional achievements. Overall, they are easy to get. It took me around 8 hours to complete the game with 100% achievements.
If you want to relax a bit and want to play a game with a cute art style, you may give this a try.
Get this on sale or through a bundle if available.
My verdict: 6.5/10
Steam User 2
Loved the songs, the birds, the dialogues, the animations, the areas, and the little Hollow Knight-inspired touches. Above everything else, what I loved most was that the game, at its core, was just genuinely entertaining.
Steam User 2
It was alright. Decently cute, fairly short. A fun enough time, I'd say, but very basic.
Ultimately, the level design was incredibly basic and it didn't feel all that compelling. For the most part, the musical element is only integrated into the exploration through one form of moving platform, and it's not very fun to engage with. The characters weren't super fleshed out and I didn't feel all that interested in the story as a result, though the story that was presented was pretty cute I suppose. The music wasn't memorable, and the music minigames were really brought down by the fact that the protagonist's voice is incredibly piercing, especially on held notes.
Overall, I think I would give this game a neutral rating if I could. It was alright for what it was, but I don't think I actually recommend buying it, as most of its elements are pretty shallow and inconsistent in quality.
The dragons in this game get a rating of 0/10, as there were no dragons.
Steam User 1
I have completed the game on both Switch and PC, and I absolutely love it. Controller can be a bit tough at times, but the game is the perfect mix of chill and challenging. I cant recommend this game enough.
My only complaint would be that in some of the songs the notes overlap quite a bit with the background music and it sounds annoying, and the hold notes are a bit too sharp and high pitched, but the music and sound design is amazing, as well as the animations.
Overall a nice story about a little bird finding where he truly belongs :)
(please make a sequel, maybe with older Birb or a whole new location)
Steam User 0
Wonderful experience, it feels like the type of game you'd play in your childhood and have fond memories of.
It's a combination of two genres I adore, rhythm and metroidvania. Although, it had more rhythm than the latter, it's not like an actual full fledged metroidvania in my opinion.
The only gripe I really have with the game is that it does have missable achievements, I had to replay the entire game just to get that last achievement but I suppose you can brush that off since not everyone cares about completionist stuff.
Steam User 0
Awesome game, awesome designs and awesome music! Btw hi Mr Tan Kang Soon I dont know if you read steam reviews but I was one of your students :D Loved playing the demo on the first day of class and I loved the overall game too. In my opinion the game is very underrated and definitely needs more attention. Anyways, thanks for an experience i'll never forget, the feeling of jamming to Uncle Pea's in the intro is very memorable
Steam User 0
A story about a birb traveling across the world in an attempt to find where he belongs in life that has more that it needed. The music is nice and the art style is colorful. It is enjoyable and charming to explore the world and the story is good for what it is. It's not exactly impressive but its decent enough for what it has, if maybe a bit overpriced.