Birdcage: A Tale of Sorrow

Birdcage: A Tale of Sorrow

Quantum Box Games · September 23, 2024 · Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Puzzle, Exploration, 3D

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Mostly Positive78% · 27
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About Birdcage: A Tale of Sorrow

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Birdcage: A Tale of Sorrow is a first-person graphic adventure where you must solve puzzles and earn a mysterious woman's trust to escape her apartment after committing a robbery, all while uncovering secrets that reshape your understanding of the situation. Your choices throughout six interconnected chapters directly shape both characters' fates and determine which of multiple endings you'll reach.

Birdcage is a first-person graphic adventure inspired by the classics of this genre .

You have just committed a robbery and, fleeing from the police, you hide in the apartment of a mysterious woman. Through exploration, solving puzzles, and unravelling riddles, you must earn her trust to help you escape. As you uncover her past, you will see that not everything is as it seemed at first. Being aware of her situation, you will have to make decisions that will affect both your future and hers. Will you manage to escape the house? Which path will you follow?

Birdcage is structured into six chapters that take place in a setting divided into various rooms. As you progress, new spaces will be unlocked.

This graphic adventure aims for a fully immersive experience, featuring a first-person protagonist. All the player's decisions directly affect them and can alter the game's ending, enhancing replayability.

Birdcage: A Tale of Sorrow — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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Birdcage: A Tale of Sorrow is a hidden object game with an engaging story that explores serious themes and lingers with players, but it suffers from significant technical issues including translation problems (particularly in the latter half for English speakers), puzzle difficulty spikes that can cause progression to stall, and occasional game-breaking bugs. Players who do complete it generally find the narrative worthwhile, though some note content warnings should be included and question whether certain assets were reused from other titles.

Recommended Jul 8, 2025
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7 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 6, 2024
The developer released a patch which is meant to fix the translation issue. I haven't returned to the game to try it out yet, and frankly I find little motivation to do so. ORIGINAL REVIEW PSA to English speakers who are considering to play this game: Forget about it. The English translation only runs to about midway through, so unless you know Spanish, you would have wasted your time.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 22, 2026
Hidden object type game. You have robbed a jewelry store and escaped the police into apartment of a young woman. Learn about the womans life, cook for her, fix her things and possibly escape the police at the end? I got stuck after couple puzzle, but seems like cool game if you can figure it out.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 8, 2024
Yeah, it was good. Some lines haven't been translated from Spanish but it doesn't affect the story. It should probably come with a trigger warning though as some very serious issues are being addressed. Also I'm confused as to why this level was taken from another game, namely Abby's apartment in "Who Is Abby?"
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Jul 4, 2025
I was holding a lime and suddenly spun upside down and walked on the ceiling until the game crashed.
Recommended Nov 9, 2024
I enjoyed the game. Its been a couple of weeks since I completed this game but the story is still in the back of my mind. Give it a try

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