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BIRDHOUSE is a short interactive horror experience created by HELLLST4R featuring hand drawn graphics, animated cutscenes, and an original soundtrack.

Wick, a young human-like creature, lives in a secluded forest home with a loving deity. As he completes chores around the house and discovers a mysterious abandoned egg in the backyard, he must grapple with visions and strange occurrences that begin to plague his once tranquil home. All is not as it seems in this quiet house...

FEATURES

  • Narrative-driven eldritch horror game
  • Digitally painted graphics and animated cutscenes
  • An original ambient soundtrack 
  • Walking simulator that uses key items and interactables to progress the story
  • Collectible pages that provide world-building exposition
  • Short playtime, meant to be completed in one sitting 
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Authorhelllst4r
GenreInteractive Fiction
Tags2D, eldritch, Hand-drawn, Horror, Indie, Lovecraftian Horror, RPG Maker
LinksSteam

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I'm not sure I understood everything but I do at least think I found everything and either way, this was so good. 👏 Really hope to see more games from you in the future.

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Great game! Really pretty, and with a compelling story, all in a nicely bite-sized experience. I did encounter a few issues while playing though, which I'll put here so that the developer is aware:

  • When I first opened the application, it asked for location permission? I don't remember exactly what the popup said unfortunately, but I said no and everything still worked fine. I'm curious why that happened in the first place, as that doesn't seem at all relevant info for it to have.
  • I repeatedly encountered screen freezes, where the screen would stop updating but the game itself kept running; I could move between areas, open the menu, and even blindly navigate to the save menu to save my game when this happened. Upon reloading it would be fixed, but it was a frequent occurrence with no obvious cause.
  • One time the whole game seemed to freeze when I interacted with the door to the garden on day 4 from a certain position. This one was easily replicable, and I think it may have something to do with the "walking away from a closed door" animation getting stuck on something.
  • There was a minor incident where, after reading a page from the book on the first night, I exited the menu and my character's sprite turned fully bright as if it was daytime. I was unable to replicate this on subsequent attempts.
  • On day four, before fixing the sink, I was able to walk into it to get up on the counter, which I could then walk around on. This had no negative impact, it was just funny.
  • There were also just several interactable points that were a little finicky, where I had to be standing in exactly the right spot in order to be able to activate them. These weren't secrets or anything, just things I had to interact with to progress the story (e.g. underneath the bed). The area of interactability should perhaps have been bigger on some of these.

Here are screenshots of a couple of these occurrences. Overall I still enjoyed the game despite these issues, but would be good if the more egregious issues here were fixed. To anyone who wants to play this: just save frequently and you'll be fine (also probably don't give it your location permission, to be safe).

Short, nicely written and beautifully illustrated. Both endings were neat and satisfying. Well done, with this.

this absolutely rocks, it's not always something is able to so fully immerse me like this game did... charming visuals and interesting worldbuilding too!!

wick did get stuck on various objects a couple of times, all of em in the scripted walking back sequence so i'd advise to save frequently, still, incredible work

I finished this game today, got both endings, I really liked it!

But did anyone find page 6? I couldn't find that one :(

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After it starts raining on day 3, cross the bridge at the top left of the garden. That's where page 6 is iirc.

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Pretty cool game! I love the visuals of this game I will say. Lore and storywise, it’s decent-pretty good range I will say... tho yeah I’m kind of came prepared since I saw the comment of yours this game cannot be fixed without breaking, and so I played this with aggressive saving in mind. It did internal crash and freezed at certain points, which I timestamped as well for a reference. Also during the sink fixing part, portion of the images will go missing everytime the wrench area is interacted. 

Regardless of the issues I experience, I enjoyed the game! Hope to see more soon in the future.

cool but think need fix

Hi thanks for the comment! Unfortunately this error is due to an outdated plugin- I cannot fix it without breaking the game :( It occurs randomly so you should be able to just try again from your last save and hopefully it won’t show up again!

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Great game, I really like it, but does anyone know how to find page 3 and page 6?

Page 6 is to the top right of the garden on day 3. Page 3 is either in the tree-house or in front of the pond, I think?

Awesome game w/ really pretty graphics and cutscenes + a well done atmosphere, u nailed it!!

Really neat game. Good job <3

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this game but bees in my bonnet

Nice! Can't wait to check this out!