Steam Deck games like Owlboy
Below are 16 Steam Deck-friendly games similar to Owlboy (13 Verified, the rest Playable), ranked by player overlap. Every pick has Valve's compat stamp — Verified means full controller support and default settings just work; Playable means a small first-launch tweak (control remap or text size) gets you there. imho.run pulls compat status straight from Valve's own endpoint, refreshed daily.
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Ranked picks
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Alwa's Legacy
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Alwa’s Legacy is a modern retro game full of dangerous dungeons, mystic items and ancient secrets. Upgrade your magic and choose your own path in this non-linear adventure game brimming with exploration.
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Iconoclasts
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
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Chasm
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Explore the depths below a remote mountain town in this procedurally-generated Adventure Platformer. Taking inspiration from hack 'n slash dungeon crawlers and Metroidvania-style platformers, Chasm will immerse you in a fantasy world full of exciting treasure, deadly enemies, and abundant secrets.
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Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Batbarian: Testament of the Primordials is a snarky action-adventure puzzle game with a good dose of humor. Explore hundreds of secret-filled rooms, fight big bosses, gather companions for your party and use the powers of Pip—your bat buddy—to solve puzzles and escape the eldritch abyss!
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Horace
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
"The best platformer of 2019."Horace is a huge platforming adventure which pushes the boundaries of the genre with a profound story of a small robot learning of life, the universe and Douglas Adams. Made by videogame lovers for videogame lovers!
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Noreya: The Gold Project
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Venture into a frenetic metroidvania and take part in a fight between divinities where you will have to choose between Corrupting Gold and Purifying Light to achieve your ends.
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Jet Kave Adventure
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Jetpack through the prehistoric world in this Stone-Fiction adventure platformer. Enjoy challenging boss fights, flying over pitfalls, smashing through walls, knocking out enemies, and manipulating objects as you halt the alien threat once and for all.
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Axiom Verge
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
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Titan Souls
Deck Playable alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Between our world and the world beyond lie the Titan Souls, the spiritual source of all living things. Scattered amongst the ruins and guarded by the idle titans charged with their care, a solitary hero armed with a single arrow is assembling shards of the Titan Soul in a quest for truth and power.
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Banished
Deck Playable alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie with Owlboy.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
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Hollow Knight
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
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SteamWorld Dig 2
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Discover a vast, haunted kingdom in Hollow Knight: Silksong! Explore, fight and survive as you ascend to the peak of a land ruled by silk and song.
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Dead Cells
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
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Blasphemous
Deck Verified alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
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CrossCode
Deck Playable alternative to Owlboy — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Owlboy.
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.