Owlboy
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 8.2h
- Value
- $2.44/hr
- Reviews
- 83% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Pixelshader 3.0 enabled graphics card(DirectX 10 capable graphics card), 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.99, set in October 2025. It has been discounted 77 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 60 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 12 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ANIMAL WELL ($17.49, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Dex ($19.99, scores 48).
This site sampled 571 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 254 reviews written there were positive, against 83 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 8.2 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
30% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
7 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Good game, with good lore and a great potential, but: - there is no map, so, it's not a full metroidvania. - it's too easy. just few enemies. these enemies are so weak. boos fights are simple, fast and not challenger. - it's too much linear for a metroidvania. - there are no fast travel. actually, the world is small. so, the fast travel is not so necessary. and, this is bad. In time: my recorded play time is always...
SImply beautiful Amazing story and amazing characters you fall in love with. 10/10
In theory, this game should have been right up my street: pixel art, platform adventure, etc. But in practice, I just didn't enjoy it at all. Difficult to put my finger on exactly what I didn't like, although I know I found the characters and the plot extremely uninteresting. I'd read good things about this game, so I kept playing, waiting to get "hooked", but that never happened. Not a dreadful game, but after...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Owlboy scores 51/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115800/owlboyThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 16, price as of Sep 24.
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