Owlboy is an adventure developed by D-Pad Studio, released 1 November 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux. The main story takes about 9.6 hrs to finish.
What Owlboy is
Owlboy is an adventure game developed by D-Pad Studio and released in 2016. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on FNA.
The premise, in the publisher's words
From Wikipedia: "Owlboy is set in the land of the sky; the islands of the world below have been separated by a catastrophic event. The player controls a boy named Odus, who is a member of an owl–human hybrid race called the Owls. When Otus' village is attacked by a band of pirates, he sets out on a journey to save it from them."
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 12 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Owlboy holds a critic score of 89 out of 100. That places it above 91% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 144 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.6 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core, 1 GB RAM and Pixelshader 3.0 enabled graphics card(DirectX 10 capable graphics card). At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.
What it launched against
Owlboy launched on 1 November 2016, within three weeks of Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dishonored 2, Battlefield 1, Titanfall 2, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Owlboy yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel. See all 2 videos →
Screenshots
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Characters
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