Owlboy Full Walkthrough — Chapter Order & Links

Owlboy’s story is linear: one dungeon leads to the next floating island until you board the pirate dreadnought and eventually climb into space. This page is the chapter hub—order, naming notes, and links—so you can jump to the right detailed guide without rereading a 10-hour video.

What Order Should You Play the Owlboy Story Chapters?

Play in this sequence for the main campaign:

After the table, the rule of thumb is simple: finish the dungeon you are in before backtracking for coins, unless a shop trinket would clearly help your next boss.

How Does the Vellie Arc Start?

You learn flight, carrying objects, and carrying Geddy as a gunner on the Vellie hub, then enter Vellie Caves after the troublemaker flees underground. The cave teaches spin attacks, optional coin rings, and the first boss—many players get stuck until they learn the armor-break trick (full first-boss guide).

When you return, pirates raid Vellie; the professor sends you toward Owl Temple while adults warn Advent. Controls and anniversary options (Super Dash, auto-aim) are summarized in controls and settings and anniversary update guide.

What Happens in Owl Temple and Advent City?

Owl Temple adds cloud-and-water puzzles, purple vines (cleared later with Alphonse’s shotgun), and The Turret fight where Dirk/Alphonse shoot from a pirate rig until you drop rocks on the ship. Alphonse joins permanently afterward.

Advent City is a stealth-and-chaos gauntlet: floating mines, rescuing NPCs, and several ship duels (including a missile ship Otus can spin back). It ends with your first look at the Dreadnought assault—not the full ship dungeon yet.

Where Are Forgotten Jungle, Hex Machine, and Molten?

From Tropos, Alphonse burns green vines into the Forgotten Jungle dungeon—dark rooms, torch fruit, the infamous owl-statue ring puzzle, then the Hex Machine (Fandom: Hex Machine; GameFAQs: Hexing Machine). Strip its helmet, dodge arms, then finish by triggering both wall sockets in the last phase.

Molten opens after raising Tropos statues. Expect Gorilla King (minion waves) and the molten mechanical worm chase. GameFAQs and Fandom both treat these as the molten-region boss pair.

What Are Mesos and Strato Between Molten and the Pirate Ship?

Not every guide lists Mesos as its own chapter. GameFAQs jumps from Molten to Dreadnought; Gamer Walkthroughs Part 9 documents Mesos, icy passages, Twig joining, Mesos Passage coin tunnels, and Strato waterfalls on the way back toward Tropos. Treat this as overworld linking content—important for 100% coins and Twig’s grapple, but still story-linear.

How Do Dreadnought and Space Finish the Game?

The Dreadnought chapter is the full pirate battleship infiltration—vents, timed doors, Twig’s grapple, and the Dirk duel—before Molstrom’s quarters and the rocket ride. Step-by-step help lives in the pirate ship walkthrough.

Space (Fandom: Floating Tower) changes gravity: limited flight, rising continent platforming, then Solus with rotating colored relics. No regular enemies appear until that final fight per GameFAQs.

What Should You Read Next?

• Stuck on the opening fight? Vellie Caves first boss
• Final stretch? Pirate ship walkthrough then Solus
• Completion? 100 percent guide · Golden disks · Trinkets
• Session length? How long to beat Owlboy