- Where Birds Sleep is a game about control. Or, well, your lack of control - 7 June 2026
The very essence of videogame design is giving the player control. You choose where your character goes; you choose what your character does. In Where Birds Sleep, however, you don't get to choose. You don't get to be the good guy, yet you don't get to be the bad guy. You live by the consequences of your actions; consequences that cannot be changed. Where Birds Sleep makes you feel helpless; it breaks your heart, and forces you to question your morality. It's unlike any videogame I've ever played. Read the full story on PCGamesN: Where Birds Sleep is a game about control. Or, well, your lack of control
- BIG NEWS! New Trailer & Neil Newbon as Cormo - 7 June 2026
We’ve been sitting on this info for a long time, but the day has come! No one's more excited to finally share this with you all, so here we go!Neil Newbon as CormoWe are proud to announce a collaboration with the award-winning British actor Neil Newbon who is joining our amazing cast, and will be voicing Cormo, the main character of Where Birds Sleep. You can hear him in the trailer below.Neil is super passionate about our game, and his involvement is a collaboration - he does deep psychological preparation and character development with us, helps us with VO and much more.New TrailerOur new, mystical and atmospheric trailer shows the themes, main hook, snippets of gameplay and the the principal characters Cormo will meet on his journey - Dunlin, a Properly-Born musician scientist with ambitions, and the Maiden - a mysterious woman who invades Cormo’s dreams. The trailer features a mix o…
- Where Birds Go to Sleep at Czech & Slovak Games Week! - 15 November 2025
We're happy to say that we are participating in the Czech & Slovak Games Week taking place between November 17-24th. During this, we will be streaming the amazing Dustflower's pre-recorded playthrough of our old demo.The event page is at https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41475492/sale/czechslovakgamesweek2025Enjoy the sale, and keep an eye out on this space for our next news post with development updates!
- Steampost of Greater Updates - 25 June 2025
Progress has been great on our feature complete demo and it was high time we updated our store page description to reflect the changes we've made. We hope you'll find this exciting!Where Birds Go To Sleep is a narrative adventure mystery game like no other - a blend of Tabletop Role-Playing Games, Point & Click Adventures and mystery games with narrative choices and world exploration.Slip into the mind of Cormo, a villainous pirate-turned-explorer driven by greed as he embarks on a secret mission within the prison island. The journey goes awry - Cormo is shipwrecked, and toxic, mind-numbing fog shrouds the island. The prison colony is strangely quiet…As the tower built to reach the heavens and meet God nears completion - an island appears in the distant sea. Prisoners are sent to establish a colony and chart it.The whole island presents a multi-layered, interlocking mystery. Delve into…
- Steampost of Lesser Updates 2 - 9 April 2025
We’ve been hard at work on the game and our new feature complete demo. It’s all coming together steadily, and we thought it’s time to share some more with you: It's not gambling - you're not playing for money. Just for your life. Cormo has long left behind his ruinous habit of gambling. But it's hard to lose old habits. They don't want to lose you either. On your explorations you’ll come across dice. Cormo fidgets with them, reminiscing for a moment before tossing them. He’ll never know what he rolled… but you will. Scenarios are high risk actions that can be attempted using rolled dice - or just leaving it up to luck or fate. This might be performing an acrobatic feat, trying not to throw up, or deciding whether Cormo’s will or yours will prevail. But the most important of them all is of course - FISHING. Cormo can find fishing spots - but he never seems to catch any fish. In our game,…
- Where Birds Go to Sleep at Czech & Slovak Games Week! - 11 November 2024
Starting today, the Czech & Slovak Games Week begins until the 18th, and the (old) demo of Where Birds Go to Sleep will be available again during it. As always, during the abovementioned time window we will be streaming the amazing Dustflower's pre-recorded playthrough of the very same demo. Enjoy the sale, and keep an eye out on this space for our next update foreshadowed earlier.
- Steampost of Lesser Updates - 20 October 2024
Sorry for the long radio silence. We have been working hard on the game and made some really great progress. We're still working on our feature complete demo and have been prototyping different maps. Here are a couple of things we've already implemented: Inventory and Stats If you have played our public demo, you'll remember the “Mindmap” screen, which was accessed by pressing “M” contained ideas about everything - the quests, the items you carry and lore. The Mindmap has been separated into more traditional categories. The first is the inventory which allows you to browse, inspect, equip and use your collected items. Your accrued character traits were hidden in the previous demo, but now the system is transparent and you will be able keep track of them. There’s also Thoughts, Clues and Nighthawks, we’ll keep those for another update. Further UI Redesigns and Polish We have been hard at…
- Where Birds Go to Sleep at GDoC Expo! - 18 September 2024
Starting today, the Game Devs of Colour Expo will run til the 24th, and the demo of Where Birds Go to Sleep will be available again during it! We're preparing a bigger update to drop soon with a lot of new exciting progress shots to show, but it's not quite ready just yet. As always, during the abovementioned time window we will be streaming the amazing Dustflower's pre-recorded playthrough of the very same demo. Enjoy the sale, and keep an eye out on this space for our next update!
- Where Birds Go to Sleep in the Women's Day Sale! - 1 March 2024
We are excited to be part of the Women's Day Sale running from March 1-10! Check out the wide range of discounted and upcoming games as well as demos! During the festival, we will be streaming Dustflower's pre-recorded playthrough of our (now outdated) demo. We are working hard at the game and are excited to share updates about it soon! Until then, take care!
- Storyteller's Festival 2024 Stream - 1 February 2024
We are excited that Where Birds Go to Sleep is going to be part of The Storyteller's Festival again and we'll be broadcasting the amazing Dustflower's playthrough of our demo today!
- Storyteller's Festival (Correction) - 29 January 2024
(Sorry for the repost of the event, the start date was entered wrong and apparently cannot be changed once the event is published!) We are excited that Where Birds Go to Sleep is going to be part of The Storyteller's Festival again, starting later today! Our Discord community has grown over the past year and we are very grateful for the good time we're having there: there's talk about games of course, the games industry at large, pictures of pets and creepy crawlies and... an ARG (for those unfamiliar with the term; a sort of community puzzle) which has been going on for a long time, and finally we have the first 3 solvers: ːl_wingː lil scallop, minikrob and Sunny! ːr_wingː We have been working hard on our feature complete demo and have posted some behind the scenes of it on our Discord (see them below), but for those of you who aren't on the server, we are working on it every day, maki…
- Where Birds Go to Sleep wins IndieCup's MOST PROMISING GAME AWARD!!! - 25 April 2023
We are super pumped to announce that our game has won IndieCup's MOST PROMISING GAME award!! Thank you to IndieCup for organising the event, and thank you to everyone for the kind words and the support! This is a colossal morale boost for us as we work on our feature complete demo for one of the upcoming NEXT Fests. In the meanwhile, we appreciate your support, and hope you stay safe until then!!
- Storyteller's Festival & Public Demo! - 26 March 2023
We are super excited to say that Where Birds Go to Sleep is going to be part of The Storyteller's Festival! ------------------------ (Apologies for the repost - apparently the date of the broadcast was entered wrong, and Steam won't let me edit the start time!) When: AEDT: 9:00 AM 2023 March 26 PST: 2:00 PM 2023 March 25 CET: 11:00 PM 2023 March 25 What: Our demo will be publicly available again! For those of you who have played it last year in August or November, unfortunately this is the exact same demo, however, there might be some content still that you haven't seen yet: 1. There's a big secret in our demo that we hid too well! We learned such a big lesson with this one! Here's how to access it; 1. Sit on the bed in the tent where you can sleep 2. Open the mindmap by pressing "M" or the "options" key on your gamepad 3. Read the "Shireen's Locket" item description 4. Go straight to s…
- Last Chance to Play the Demo! - 27 November 2022
Thank You Big thank you to everyone who has played our demo! Your feedback and input has been absolutely invaluable! The Demo's Availability On the 30th we'll take the demo down. This time, we will disable it instead of hiding it, which means that even if you have it in your Steam library, you will not be able to launch it afterwards, so play it while you still can! We might make it available again in the future, but we don't know when and for how long. Maybe as part of a Steam festival. We Want Your Thoughts! If you haven't already, we would kindly ask you to fill out this questionnaire, regardless of having played the demo or not! Knowing your expectations and views on the final release helps us a LOT: >>>QUESTIONNAIRE
- Developer Live Stream, come chat with us! - 14 November 2022
Starting NOW is the beginning of the CZECH & SLOVAK GAMES WEEK, a Steam Festival celebrating games made in Czechia and Slovakia! We'll be live streaming tomorrow 10-11 PM CET on our Steam page!!! We will play the demo and talk about development, and this is the first time you'll be able to see our faces (did someone say face reveal?!?!?!). Come and join our chat on our Steam page, ask us questions if you'd like, or just hang out and watch us have fun with our demo, and find out whether hearing Cormo's jokes for the ten thousandth time still makes us laugh!
- We NEED your thoughts! - 10 November 2022
We would love to hear your thoughts, expectations and views on the final release of Where Birds Go to Sleep! Regardless of whether you've played the demo, filling in the following questionnaire would help us immensely: QUESTIONNAIRE HERE! Thank you
- Steam Broadcast! Come watch Dustflower play our demo! - 20 October 2022
For a while, we'll be streaming pre-recorded demo gameplay by Dustflower on the Steam page. It is a very nicely narrated and thoughtful playthrough, but she hasn't found all the secrets. Maybe you will? We hope you give the demo a go!
- Play The Demo! - 14 October 2022
Starting today, our demo will be public again as part of Dreamhack Beyond's Indie Showcase (14 Oct - 23 Oct, leading into another festival 24-25 October called Dev.Play centered around Eastern European games! There are two other festivals we'll be part of in Novemeber as well, so we're vert excited! Regarding the demo, it is the same demo as before. If you haven't played it already, we hope you'll give it a go and let us know what you think. If you have, thank you, and we hope you'll tell your friends to play it! 🎉 You may not think you make a difference, but you absolutely do! Any word of mouth you can spread is a massive help (and moral boost) to us. THANK YOU!
- A Thank You, and Demo Available until 14th August - 11 August 2022
Tiny Teams has wrapped a few days ago and we we would like to thank everyone who played the demo. The feedback we have received via the feedback form, Steam Discussion forums or on our Discord has been incredibly useful, and we have tried to be responsive and some reactionary changes made it into demo updates. For the time being, we will first hide the demo for an unspecified amount of time on the 14th of August. This means that even if you have the demo in your library or installed, you will be able to run it, but new players will not be able to download it. At a later point, we will disable it fully, so you won't be able to run it. We will announce this in advance. Don't worry, the demo will be back (with some updates) later! Thank you once again, and we are excited for the next time the demo will be public again, and for your feedback!
- Big Demo Update and Tiny Teams - 30 July 2022
We are very excited to say that we're participating in TinyTeams 2022, and that our demo will be available again from the 1st of August until an unspecified date (at least until the 8th). If you have the demo in your Steam library already, you'll already see an update for the demo - the build will have "0.71" (or higher) on the top left corner. If you don't, you will be able to access the demo again on the 1st of August! We would love to hear your thoughts on the changes and the new content, and if you run into any issues! Changes: - New endscreen that shows your path taken in the demo - A new dialogue path for the argument with Dunlin - Shireen's Locket dream made more apparent - WASD/Gamepad support!! - A lot of voice lines have been cut up to be shorter so dialogue is quicker (more like movie subtitles) - Resolutions now wont list every resolution under the sun, just the relevant one…
