Dinner with an Owl

Dinner with an Owl

Released May 2021

Break the puzzling spell of your eccentric host! Dinner with an Owl: A short surreal point and click adventure.

94% positive · 879 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Dinner with an Owl is a short, free-to-play point-and-click adventure that originally launched on May 18, 2021. The store description identifies the current version as the "Dessert Edition," an enhanced release featuring full professional voice acting and an original soundtrack. The game's only DLC — a soundtrack pack — shipped on the same day as the base game. Post-launch, the developer added Spanish subtitles in November 2021 and released an updated version on June 16, 2024 that included minor polish fixes (improved mouse cursors, animation fixes, and hotspot adjustments). That June 2024 update was the last official communication from the developer regarding this game. The developer's attention has since shifted to a separate project: Owl Observatory, a prequel game announced in December 2023 and demoed in June 2024. There is no announced future content for Dinner with an Owl itself. The game launched as a self-contained short adventure and has been completed and polished to a "Dessert Edition" state. With no unreleased DLC, no roadmap, and no developer statements indicating further updates, the game is content-complete.
Evidence
Store description identifies this as the 'Dessert Edition' — an enhanced version of the game featuring voice acting, an original soundtrack, and a complete self-contained story. No mention of future content or updates.
store metadata · May 18, 2021 source content shipped
high
The developer released a polish update for Dinner with an Owl (improved cursors, animation fixes) alongside the demo launch for Owl Observatory. This is the last known developer communication about the original game.
news post · Jun 16, 2024 source content shipped
medium

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
BoringSuburbanDad
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game



Dinner with an Owl is a short classical point and click adventure.

Explore the sinister mansion of your eccentric owl-like host, who holds his involuntary guests under a puzzling spell.
Can you help them escape this nightmare?
Then brace yourselves for some serious surprises!


This is the enhanced "Dessert Edition" of Dinner with an Owl, featuring:

  • Full professional voice acting
  • Eerie original soundtrack
  • Twisted, looping storyline
  • Classic point and click adventure gameplay
  • Talk to weird characters in multiple choice dialogues
  • Solve the mystery of the owl, to finally escape the mansion

Last evaluated Jun 23, 2026
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