Project Songbird

About Project Songbird

Project Songbird was made by Conner Rush, a solo developer working as FYRE Games, the maker of Summerland and We Never Left from Dread X Collection 5. It was released on Steam in March 2026 and holds a Metacritic score of 76; its page notes it is still in active development.

You play Dakota, a career musician who, stuck with writer's block, isolates themself in a cabin in the remote Appalachian forest to record their next album. The game is presented with a cinematic, film-like look: a warm-lit log cabin, birch woods in fog, a glowing door standing among the trees, a white chapel, dark corridors in dreams.

It is a dark narrative of four to five hours that you explore in first person, with ranged and melee combat and upgradeable weapons to survive the nightmarish parts. The voice cast includes Valerie Rose Lohman, Jonah Scott and Aleks Le, and the soundtrack is by members of the band Auric Echoes. Its maker calls it by far the most personal game he has made, and the store page warns of depictions of suicide and animal death.

It suits players who like short, story-led psychological horror with some fighting.

How to play Project Songbird

1. Buy it on Steam and run it on Windows.
2. Explore the cabin, the forest and the dreamscapes in first person.
3. Use ranged and melee weapons, and upgrade them, to survive the attacks.
4. Follow Dakota's story through to its end.

Tips

• Take time to explore; the story is told through the places as much as the dialogue.
• Upgrade the weapon you use most.

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