Owlboy Release Date and Supported Platforms

Owlboy's Release Date and Platforms

Owlboy was released on November 1, 2016, and it is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Those details come from the game's official Steam store page, which lists D-Pad Studio as both developer and publisher.

Release Date and Anniversary Milestones

The Steam store page gives the release date as Nov 1, 2016. D-Pad Studio's own anniversary announcements line up with that date. A 2024 announcement posted on Nov 2 says Owlboy turned 8 years old "since it's initial Steam launch yesterday," pointing back to Nov 1. The studio's August 2026 announcement said the anniversary "lands on Nov 1st."

Supported Platforms

• The Steam store page lists Windows, Mac and Linux as supported platforms.
• Other platforms are not covered by the official facts provided here, so this article makes no claims about them.
• According to Metacritic, the game was released on Nov 1, 2016 and has a metascore of 88 based on 47 critic reviews. Metacritic also aggregates reviews across several platforms, but its page does not establish which ones are official.

Genres and Play Style

Steam classifies Owlboy as Action, Adventure and Indie, and lists it as a single-player game. The official store description calls it a story-driven platform adventure where you can fly and explore a world in the clouds, pick up your friends and bring them along, and recruit Otus's friends as gunners, each with unique abilities and stories.

Steam Features at a Glance

The store page lists these features:

• Single-player
• Steam Achievements
• Full controller support
• Steam Trading Cards
• Steam Cloud
• Steam Leaderboards
• Remote Play on TV
• Family Sharing

The store page lists supported languages and marks which of them have full audio support. It also gives a minimum requirement of Windows 7/8/10/Vista with 600 MB of available storage.