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Crow Story

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2021

Should you play it?

Jump, dive, and platform through this minimalistic indie 3D platformer about a little crow trying to save his friends.

What works

  • Free to play
  • Charming art style and music
  • Tight and satisfying platforming mechanics
  • Well-paced difficulty curve
  • Speedrun incentives with unlockable skins

Things to keep in mind

  • Short game length
  • Camera issues reported
  • Some controls feel janky or unintuitive
  • Minimal story and exploration
  • Repetitive music tracks

What to play next

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Similarity map

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Crow Story. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Crow Story. These titles are not in What to play next.

Crow Story: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Fantasy, Survival, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration.

Last update: 23/08/2026