How many copies has Owlboy sold?

indielist estimates Owlboy has sold between 293,184 and 684,096 units (median 488,640), derived from its 6,108 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Owlboy?

Owlboy was developed by D-Pad Studio and published by D-Pad Studio.

Who published Owlboy?

Owlboy was published by D-Pad Studio, developed by D-Pad Studio. See D-Pad Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

How many reviews does Owlboy have on Steam?

Owlboy has 6,108 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.

Is Owlboy worth playing?

Steam players rate Owlboy 84% positive across 6,108 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Owlboy

Nov 1, 2016 Action $19.99

Developer D-Pad Studio Publisher D-Pad Studio

Profile updated May 2026

Owlboy is an action-adventure game released in 2016. It has garnered 3,636 reviews on Steam. Publisher and developer attribution is not yet imported.

Owlboy is a 2016 Action game developed by D-Pad Studio and published by D-Pad Studio. On Steam it has gathered 6,108 player reviews, 84% of them positive, which counts as a mostly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer D-Pad Studio with publisher D-Pad Studio is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 293,000 to 684,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Owlboy can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

6,108

Positive

84%

Steam appid

115800

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 14:30 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

293K to 684K

units (median: 489K)

≈ $3.3M to $7.8M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

293K median 684K

+ How is this calculated?

6,108 reviews × NB(80) = 488,640 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2016	+30
price_$20	0
positive_84%	0
final NB	80

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Owlboy at roughly 293,000 to 684,000 copies, with a median around 489,000, derived from its 6,108 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $5.6M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

30 observed days · window low $3.99

Across 30 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Humble Store

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Owlboy sold?: indielist estimates Owlboy has sold between 293,184 and 684,096 units (median 488,640), derived from its 6,108 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Owlboy?: Owlboy was developed by D-Pad Studio and published by D-Pad Studio.
Who published Owlboy?: Owlboy was published by D-Pad Studio, developed by D-Pad Studio. See D-Pad Studio's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Owlboy released?: Owlboy was released in 2016.
How many reviews does Owlboy have on Steam?: Owlboy has 6,108 Steam reviews, of which 84% are positive.
Is Owlboy worth playing?: Steam players rate Owlboy 84% positive across 6,108 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Owlboy can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Celeste, SANABI, Skul: The Hero Slayer, ANIMAL WELL, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, D-Pad Studio's other releases and D-Pad Studio's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Owlboy sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Owlboy page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.