P.I.G.E.O.N.

P.I.G.E.O.N.

Barking Beagle Studios · Adventure, Visual Novel, Dystopian , Experimental, Indie

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About P.I.G.E.O.N.

P.I.G.E.O.N. is a short surrealist visual novel RPG in which you become a pigeon, armed with a camera, sent to spy. You will have to make choices, but you won't always be able to make a choice.

P.I.G.E.O.N. — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

P.I.G.E.O.N. is a short, free game that uses its pigeon perspective to explore themes of freedom, autonomy, and resistance against systemic control, with players divided on whether its dystopian allegory feels fresh or familiar. Supporters praise its meaningful writing, atmospheric art and soundtrack, and philosophical depth about choice and breaking free from conditioning, while skeptics find the dystopian metaphor clichéd and the overall experience somewhat abstract or unclear. Players generally recommend it as a brief, thought-provoking experience worth experiencing given it costs nothing.

Not recommended Oct 9, 2026
I'm not sure what this is about. A dystopian metaphor? Those are clichéd. 看不懂想表达什么,反乌托邦?那看多了没意思。
11 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 10, 2026
Yesterday, someone gave a negative review saying 'it's cliché'. Yet, I cannot agree to this. Never this game had a message so actual, so grounded to the darkness we face nowadays. Will you accept being just a tool of a broken system? Discarded, without a sense whatsoever. Or will you try to be yourself and try to fly through the sky? Can you break your chains? Will you face the consequences of your decisions? Are you your own master? The game is simple, short, it takes you into this world where everything's is kinda crumbling. Soundtrack and art complements the writing. It's sour, sweet, and it's free to play.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 5, 2026
They could never conquer nature.
4 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 5, 2026
Short game, but a profound experience that will be always relevant. I highly recommend! [spoiler]To be truly free, one has to battle their own upbringing and conditioning. However hard or impossible it may look, there is always that choice, and for the lucky ones, a path out of it.[/spoiler]
3 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 1, 2026
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3 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 12, 2026
Imagine if you were a pigeon, and then there was another pigeon, and then there's people, right? And then you're a pigeon again, and then there's another pigeon, and then you watch some people, right? And then you are a pigeon AGAIN, and, guess what? There's another pigeon. There's some people too, you get to see them if you want, that's cool, I guess. There's an egg? If that is interesting to you?
2 found this helpful

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