What Platforms Is Owlboy On? Windows, Mac, and Linux
Lists the platforms Owlboy is officially available on through its Steam listing and clarifies that it is a PC platformer.
Which platforms can I play Owlboy on?
According to the official Steam store page, Owlboy is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux — those are the only platforms listed in the store details provided here. The game is sold on Steam as app 115800, developed and published by D-Pad Studio, and released on November 1, 2016. Other versions, including consoles, are documented by third-party sources but do not appear in the official store information this article is based on.
The official platform list
The store page lists the supported operating systems as:
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
That same listing gives the US store price as $1.99 and tags the game with the Action, Adventure, and Indie genres. D-Pad Studio appears as both developer and publisher.
What the PC version includes
The Steam listing describes a single-player experience with full controller support, along with Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Steam Leaderboards, Remote Play on TV, and Family Sharing.
The store page also lists thirteen supported languages — English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Norwegian — with a note that languages marked with an asterisk have full audio support.
The store page lists these minimum PC requirements:
- OS: Windows 7/8/10/Vista
- Processor: Dual Core
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Pixelshader 3.0 enabled card (DirectX 10 capable)
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 600 MB available space
Console versions documented elsewhere
These are not part of the official store details above, so treat them as third-party information. According to Wikipedia's Owlboy article, the macOS and Linux versions arrived on January 27, 2017, the Nintendo Switch version on February 13, 2018, and the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions on April 10, 2018, with Soedesco handling physical publishing.
The Nintendo official site listing also gives a Switch release date of February 13, 2018, an ESRB rating of Alcohol Reference, Fantasy Violence, and Mild Blood, a file size of 313 MB, and support for TV, tabletop, and handheld modes.
Recent changes on the PC side
An official Steam announcement dated 2026-11-01 marked the game's tenth anniversary with an update adding a Super Dash move, an optional auto-aim system, cutscene skipping, and new toggles for screenshake and flash effects. A separate official announcement from 2026-10-01 described auto-aim as making the game fully playable without a second thumbstick. These changes are documented for the Steam version; whether they apply to every platform listed above is not stated in the materials provided.
For the most direct source on platforms and pricing, see the Owlboy Steam store page.
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