Late Bird

Casual· Interactive Fiction· Point & Click· Visual Novel

Released Jan 2022

Late Bird is a short interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time.

95% positive · 120 reviews

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Evaluation

Late Bird is a deliberately short, self-contained interactive story (~10 minutes) created by Vladimir Slav as a personal project. It launched on January 20, 2022 as a finished, complete experience. The store description frames it as a complete three-chapter narrative with no mention of future content or expansion plans. Post-launch activity has been purely maintenance: a June 23, 2022 update added a cinematic autoplay mode and graphical adjustments, and a January 30, 2024 post added a Brazilian Portuguese translation. Neither constitutes new story content, and neither suggests ongoing content development. The developer has not announced any additional chapters, DLC, or future updates. The game appears to have shipped as a complete, finished product on its release date.

Evidence

Launch announcement confirms the game is available now as a complete short interactive story across three chapters.

news post · Jan 20, 2022 source content shipped

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Store description frames the game as a complete, self-contained short (~10 min) three-chapter interactive story with no mention of planned future content.

description · Jan 20, 2022 source content shipped

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Media

Details

Developer

Vladimir Slav

Publisher

Coldwild Games

Achievements

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Platform

Windows, macOS, Linux

Controller

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Steam Deck

Not rated

Players

Single-player

Casual Interactive Fiction Point & Click Visual Novel 2D Hand-drawn Minimalist Dark Linear Indie Text-Based Experimental Narrative Short

About this game

Late Bird is a short (10 min), experimental interactive story about birds, movies, suicidal thoughts and not growing up in time. Go through three chapters, reflecting the author's views on life, meaning and emotional maturity.

This interactive experience is an attempt to process my own feelings about life and constantly feeling like an angsty teenager despite being 32 at the moment of making this. In case you feel like you "need to do grownup things because I am a grownup" - you might relate to this.