Owlboy
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Fair at $1.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2016. Buy it now if you want it.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.24/hr
- Reviews▼
- 83% of 6,135
- Critics
- 88 players 5 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 4% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Score at full price
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Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.2h
- To 100%
- 13.2h 1.6x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 79 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2026
- Sale every
- 42d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 43 now
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 88% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
30% start to 5% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in November 2026. It has been discounted 79 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 60 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
Its score sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 88 percent. Among the games that feel like it, ANIMAL WELL ($17.49, scores 73) beats it on value, while it beats Phoenotopia: Awakening ($19.99, scores 64).
More about Owlboy
This site sampled 572 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 253 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
SImply beautiful Amazing story and amazing characters you fall in love with. 10/10
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
it's like a 6/10 for me. i really enjoyed the music, the art, and the vibes. for games that just let you chill and enjoy their worlds, this is a win. where it's not as fun is just in the fact that the story and mechanics don't run very deep. it's gonna feel "samey" most of the game, though the environments do change significantly. and then the only actively negative things were just a few little bugs with screws...
I want to love this game. Its really cute, the game play is for the most part decent and the story is cool if slightly disjointed. But I cannot recommend this game. There was always some platforming issues, and with one of the bosses too, where the controls are just not responsive enough and too floaty, ironically enough. Then at the end you have to do insanely finicky platforming where if you fly you lose all...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Owlboy scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/115800/owlboyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 13, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.