Of Bird and Cage

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About the Game FIRST OF ITS KIND STORY-DRIVEN MUSIC GAME Experience the overwhelming power of metal music like never before. Featuring artists from (ex) Guns N' Roses, Epica, Within Temptation, and many others!

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Developer:
Capricia Productions
Publisher:
All In! Games
Release date:
20 May 2021
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mostly Positive (134)

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About the Game



FIRST OF ITS KIND STORY-DRIVEN MUSIC GAME

Experience the overwhelming power of metal music like never before. Featuring artists from (ex) Guns N' Roses, Epica, Within Temptation, and many others! Music by Arnold Nesis.



Dive into a dark, twisted game specifically tailored to its music. Let symphonic metal lead you through a two-hour-long story of trauma, violence, and madness based lightly on ‘Beauty and the Beast’.

Play as Gitta Barbot, a 25 year-old drug addict, who tries to escape the physical and mental prison of her captor—Bres Lupus. Make quick choices that will have dire consequences and watch how your actions reveal new paths while struggling to keep your sanity.



You’re surrounded by violence at home and at work, engulfing every aspect of your life—what will you do? Will you take revenge or grant forgiveness? Ultimately, the choice is yours.

Follow the twisted relationship between two characters, portrayed in a gut-wrenching way. Happy endings don't come easily here. In this first-person hybrid of a concept album and a game, your choices and actions will shape the narrative.



  • Kobra Paige (Kobra and the Lotus)
  • Davidavi 'Vidi' Dolev (Subterranean Masquerade)
  • Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (ex-Guns N’ Roses)
  • Rob van der Loo (Epica)
  • Ruud Jolie (Within Temptation)
  • Danny Worsnop (Asking Alexandria)
  • Casey Grillo (ex-Kamelot)
  • Rocky Gray (ex-Evanescence)
  • Mike Lepond (Symphony X)
  • Tina Guo
  • Snowy Shaw (ex-King Diamond, ex-Therion)




  • Act: Solve puzzles, reveal the story, and fight to survive
  • Decide: Shape the narrative by making quick decisions to reach one of multiple endings.
  • Listen: A haunting two-hour-long symphonic metal concept album fully synced with the game’s world.
  • Look: Experience an insanely dark reality through single-player FPP.




Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Warning: The game includes themes such as alcohol, drugs, violence, abuse, and harassment.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows (64bit) OS
Processor:
Intel i5-2500
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia 730 GTx / 2GB vRAM
Storage:
10 GB available space

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows (64bit) OS
Processor:
Intel i7-4700
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
Nvidia 1060 GTx / 3GB vRAM
Storage:
10 GB available space

User reviews

DefiantShade
Recommended | 03 Oct 2023
2.9h played

This title falls under the "wish there was a neutral button". I played only via Steam Deck, so feed back here for the review is based on my experience playing it this way. First off, the game is labeled as being a

Helpful: 33
🏳️‍🌈Gangooo🐱
Not recommended | 14 Mar 2023
2.4h played

I cannot recommend this game. First I have to say, the idea behind it, that the story is told through the music in the genre of metal I find ingenious and was accordingly, also by all the positive reviews really curious

Helpful: 16
1lonelytie
Not recommended | 05 Nov 2022
2.3h played

Alright, so it pains me to have to say this, but I wouldn't recommend this game. It has absolutely wonderful and great concepts applied, but it falls apart in the dev side. Best way to describe it is it feels like an

Helpful: 7
Arion
Recommended | 31 Jul 2022
10.4h played

Really liked the music in this game and kudos for daring to try something different - using a series of songs to tell the story is a very cool premise. However, like many players have pointed out, the game seems to want

Helpful: 2
xtre
Not recommended | 19 Jan 2022
52 min played

Bad graphics, bad controls, bad gameplay and bad everything. I can't tell if the game is purposely designed to make you fail at every turn or just bad game design. Abandoned it mid game.

Helpful: 10
knarflook
Not recommended | 30 Dec 2022
2.5h played

I had high hopes for this one because the marriage of progressive metal and interactive story-telling would be right up my ally, but Of Bird and Cage completely underwhelmed me. The music is good, that's all I can say

Helpful: 4