Owlboy
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. Overcome obstacles and greater enemies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era. Being a mute, Otus struggles living up to the expectations of owl-hood. Things spiral from bad to worse with the sudden appearance of sky pirates. What follows is a journey through monster infested ruins, with unexpected encounters, well kept secrets, and burdens no one should have to bear. A love letter to pixel art for a new audience, Owlboy is a story-driven action adventure, 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. An adventure 10 years in the making.
Game Discussion
Steam User 10
Such a beautiful game, yet it got so little attention. Its music, its characters, its story is so grand and moving that it brings you to tears. It's one of the few games I genuinely cried hard at, and it's forever earned my respect and admiration. I so want to share this game's experience with as many people as possible.
Steam User 5
What a magical game; it feels like you got sucked into one of the Ghibli movie worlds. The art and the design are among the best that I've seen in pixel art. It has an interesting story and world-building; the gameplay is fun, relaxing, and challenging at times, especially with the bosses.
The puzzle were easy and there wasn't a variety of enemies but but enough to not make bored. The boss fights are so good, except for the monkey—I hate that one. All in all, the game is amazing.
Steam User 5
I’d recommend this game for the music and visuals alone, which are both beautiful.
All other aspects are mediocre at best, and overdesigned and frustrating at worst. I gave it a fair chance and finished the game, but in my opinion, it’s not a very good platformer, sorry.
Steam User 4
This is a solid little game. It took me 25 hours to complete, but a lot of that was trying to get achievements.
Pros:
Flying and most of the gameplay.
The story is phenomenal!
Some sound puzzles.
Looks great!
Cons:
Starts very negatively (this bothered me more than I wanted it to).
Short. I took 25 hours and that is with a restart, messing around, and a lot of backtracking.
Feels kind of like there was supposed to be more.
Using up to fly as well as A on controller had me flying when I didn't want to more times than not. Not a fan.
Overall I enjoyed myself.
Side note: A lot of people complain about the optional cannon minigame, but I thought it was just the right mix of frustration and reward. I can remember some horrible minigames out there so this one didn't really phase me.
Steam User 3
Owlboy was a challenging yet fun platformer with a charming story and a sweeping soundtrack. Some levels felt cheap at first, but once you figured out the mechanics, they were easy to overcome. There were a few segments where I felt lost and was unsure where to go next. I had to look up guides online to help me out. For that, I wish there was an in-game journal or quest system to remind me who I was to speak to or where I was meant to go. Some of the checkpoints were a bit unforgiving, leading to multiple watches of unskippable dialog. I played entirely on Steam Deck and the game ran well and used surprisingly little battery life. Overall, I stuck it out to see the end and it was worth it. 4/5
Steam User 4
A short little platforming romp with more story than one might expect from this kind of title. Its above average but not terribly inventive. I had a good time with it but I never felt blown away by anything. I think the trailer makes it out to be a bit more simple and childish than it actually is. I probably would not have checked it out were it not so heartily recommended by so many youtube reviews.
Steam User 3
Just finished the game and in my opinion it's worth it IF you can get it on discount.
PROS:
-Characters are likeable
-The antagonist is a well established threat
-The world is interesting.
CONS:
-While likeable the characters feel under developed. Especially Asio.
-There is no payoff for the Pirate Capitan you never fight him and he dies in a cutscene
-While the world is interesting exploring it is annoying there is no fast travel and if you have to go back a place to try and get all the coins you will have to defeat the enemies, activate switches and burn branches all over again. In a normal playthrough you wont have to back travel at all I think.
Over all the game is a 7/10 at least IMO.