Fit check
Is Ostrich Island worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Adventure players who want exploration mixed with collectibles and character progression
- Co-op pairs who enjoy helping or interfering with one another during exploration
- Creative players who want to make and share islands or ostrich skins
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a tightly focused adventure may find the many collectibles, secrets, and side activities distracting
- Players wanting the same challenge throughout may bounce off the separate, more difficult Game+ mode
- Players who do not want to create, download, or browse community-made content may have little use for the Workshop
Our take on Ostrich Island
The bounce point arrives at the Workshop layer: players who only want a fixed exploration campaign may stop when island and skin creation, sharing, and downloading become part of the available experience. Those seeking a solo-only journey may also hit friction in the two-player mode's score-stealing interactions.
What is Ostrich Island?
Ostrich Island combines exploration, adventure, and RPG progression across tropical islands, stormy areas, ocean depths, and underground spaces.
The ostrich character earns experience, levels up, and gains skills and abilities while finding achievements, collectibles, bonuses, hats, and hidden islands. Activities include taking photos, catching butterflies, kicking objects, and caring for chicken companions that can be bred and fed. A Nest area displays discovered items and family stories. Cooperative play lets two friends assist or interfere with one another, including taking score points. After completing the game, a more challenging Game+ mode becomes available. Workshop tools support creating ostrich skins and islands, sharing them with the community, and downloading content made by other players.
How Ostrich Island plays
- 01Island exploration
- Areas include tropical settings, storms, ocean depths, underground spaces, and hidden islands.
- 02RPG progression
- Experience points raise the ostrich's level and open additional skills and abilities.
- 03Collectibles and secrets
- Exploration includes achievements, bonuses, hats, photography, butterflies, and other discoverable items.
- 04Chicken companions
- Chicken companions can be fed and bred during the journey.
- 05Cooperative play
- Two friends can work together or disrupt each other by taking score points.
- 06Workshop content
- Players can make ostrich skins and islands, share them, and download community creations.
- 07Game Plus mode
- A more challenging mode becomes available after the initial completion.
Ostrich Island compared to similar games
Bear and Breakfast centers on running and managing a bed-and-breakfast, while Ostrich Island focuses on exploration, collectibles, RPG progression, and community-made islands and skins. Potion Permit combines town life with healing work, whereas Ostrich Island adds cooperative play, hidden islands, companions, and a post-completion Game+ mode. Hero of the Kingdom presents a calmer, time-free adventuring RPG, while Ostrich Island includes environmental exploration, object interaction, and Workshop content.
Ostrich Island: platforms & release
Is Ostrich Island worth it?
It is worth it if: adventure players who want exploration mixed with collectibles and character progression. Skip it if: players seeking a tightly focused adventure may find the many collectibles, secrets, and side activities distracting.
Where can I download Ostrich Island?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Ostrich Island's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Ostrich Island on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
