Posted on: August 28, 2025
Moosefoo
Verified ownerGames: 102 Reviews: 3
Great Platformer!
If you like platformers, you definitely should play this.
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Owlboy
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Owlboy is a 'high-bit' 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. Overcome obstacles and greater enemies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
- A love letter to pixel art for a new audience, Owlboy is an open-world exploration game with a unique mix of flight and platforming.
- Carry anything. Recruit Otus’s friends as gunners to fight for you, each with unique abilities and stories.
- Large dungeons with big and challenging boss battles.
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10 h Main + Sides
13 h Completionist
9 h All Styles
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9.3/10
Owlboy shines thanks to surprisingly varied, Metroidvania-style gameplay and a charming cast of unlikely heroes whose bittersweet journey is among the best I’ve experienced in recent years. Its remarkably detailed pixel art makes every scene more breathtaking than the last, but it’s the relationships between characters in both story and gameplay that makes Owlboy something truly special.
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9/10
Dungeons are fun and well-designed, and the story will keep you moving at a steady pace
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82/100
A beautiful adventure platformer with a cheerful pixel art veneer, but with very modern themes.
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Posted on: October 7, 2025
Centipede
Verified ownerGames: 290 Reviews: 1
An OK Metroidvania
Owlboy is a perfectly serviceable metroidvania. It's certainly not bad, but ultimately, I stopped playing it before I finished it. It felt like a chore to keep coming back. I think this would be a good fit if you prefer to have a metroidvania really hold your hand a lot. There is an open world, but it mostly exists to connect specific areas you're pointed at. As such, most of the upgrades didn't feel like they were opening things up, just general progression on a rail.
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Posted on: October 29, 2025
calinwiz
Verified ownerGames: 208 Reviews: 3
Platforming with a twist
A bit of Jazz Jackrabbit, a bit of Mario Galaxy, a bit of pixelated wonder, a bit of Rayman 2: The Great Escape. Just...a lovely adventure!
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Posted on: June 16, 2019
KoncertMajstor
Games: 181 Reviews: 38
Sadly, NOT recommended, I wish I could
(Owned on Steam) I was really looking forward to this game... a beautiful looking platformer. While the game is beautiful, and sounds great, it falls flat in the gameplay. While the controls are good, the maps are ultimately boring, the story is very hit or miss. This is a game that had great aspirations, but either didn't have enough time for the devs to follow through, or maybe there were just too few people working on it. A lot of the game felt very tedious, and you never want this feeling in a game. If you're really intrigued, I'd say get it on sale, but lower your expectations significantly. This game falls in the middle of the pack of platformers... it will not be memorable like any of the classics, and it is nowhere near some of the modern greats (Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight). Why'd I rate 2 stars? It's certainly not a 1 star game, like I said, you can just look at it and see how much was done well. But it's not a 3 star game either -- I distinctly remember being frustrated while playing it because of awkward decisions. Ultimately, it boils down to "would I recommend it to my past self" and the answer is no. If I could explain it, I would say "imagine starting a Zelda game, going through the full intro, setting up some massive world, setting up some massive quest vs a big bad guy, and then the game is just a linear corridor to 3-4 dungeons, then the game ends -- like I said, I wish they had more time/people to work on it, since I can tell that there was a lot more they wanted to do with this. 2D platformers are what I grew up with, and what are still some of my favourite games. A lot of other people seem to rate it very highly, so perhaps you will like it.
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Posted on: June 27, 2021
egostra
Verified ownerGames: 118 Reviews: 14
nice game
Good jump 'n' run with a few nice ideas and story. Thanks for support linux!
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