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Oxenfree is a supernatural thriller about a group of friends who unwittingly open a ghostly rift. You are Alex, and you’ve just brought your new stepbrother Jonas to an overnight island party gone horribly wrong.

Oxenfree is a story rich, choices matter and atmospheric game developed and published by Night School Studio.
Released on January 14th 2016 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 7 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Simplified Chinese.

It has received 11,840 reviews of which 10,861 were positive and 979 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Oxenfree into these genres:

Story Rich Choices Matter Atmospheric Supernatural Female Protagonist Indie Mystery Adventure Horror Great Soundtrack Singleplayer Multiple Endings Psychological Horror Thriller Walking Simulator Side Scroller 2.5D 2D Short Lovecraftian

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7
Processor: Intel i3 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB Shader Model 3.0 Compatible (DirectX 9.0c)
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 3 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 Compatible

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.8 or higher
Processor: Intel i3 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB OpenGL 2.0 Compatible
Storage: 3 GB available space

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 14.10 or similar
Processor: Intel i3 2.0 GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 1GB Shader Model 3.0 Compatible (DirectX 9.0c)
Storage: 3 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0 Compatible

User reviews & Ratings

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Oct. 2025

Oxenfree is a great little indie game. You, a teenager named Alex, and some friends, go to an island that turns out to have some, to avoid spoilers as much as possible, anomalies. I found the story and characters quite interesting, although I’m not sure I fully grasped everything that happened. This definitely feels like the type of game that has a lot more going on if you dig into the lore. It would not at all surprise me to find out that there is a lot of things I missed, even though I spent a good amount of time exploring. It’s not super long, taking me only 5.8 hours to beat and get all the collectibles (the rest of my time was leaving the game open for trading cards), but I also paid something like 3 dollars for the bundle with this and its sequel and the soundtracks. The game is definitely worth more than I paid. My biggest issue is the horrendous audio mixing. There are no volume sliders and the music is at least 3 times as loud as the dialog. I wanted to quite many times purely because of this. It’s not always so bad as there are many parts without much music, but whenever the music starts, it’s painful. The game has a new game plus and if it wasn’t for the music, I would play again to see if anything changes, but I cannot sit through constantly balancing between obnoxiously loud music and quiet dialog again. The game also has some bugs with pathfinder, but you can fix that by just using WASD to move instead of clicking where you want to go. Overall, Oxenfree is a really charming and interesting game that I thoroughly enjoyed, but it’s just a few small changes away from being truly fantastic.

July 2025

If Tim Burton and the Teletubbies made a game. Oxenfree is a well told narrative with little to no gameplay. The most interesting part of this game has to be the dialogue system, which took me a while to get a hang of. Firstly your dialogue choices are timed so you end up cutting off the other characters, but it ended up feeling like a more natural conversation. The character's are decent and avoid stereotypes of teenagers which was nice. The story itself is interesting especially if you enjoy paranormal type themes. Its a fun game, give it a try.

June 2025

I struggle to explain this game, but I truly enjoyed it. Play without spoilers the first time through, and yes, you will want to play through at least twice. Do note that there are heavy themes that come up, such as death and suicide, but the overall tone is more creepy than upsetting. There's a "sequel" to this game, but it's a different story altogether and not as good.

April 2025

The plot is pretty meh, along with the supernatural elements. The characters are nice and have good depth to them. Worth experiencing the story once. It do be pretty unnerving if you play it at 1AM with the lights out. Also, controller had issues and I'm not sure if it's just a Linux thing- ended up playing the entire thing on M&K. Minor gripes- the music is wayyy too loud in places with no slider to manage it, and scrolling thro radio frequencies is kinda cumbersome. Not a dealbreaker in my books dho. 6/10

April 2025

OXENFREE is an amazing experience that you can complete in one sitting. It is a beautiful graphic adventure game with good voice acting and heartfelt characters. Music is great, if not for a bit flawed audio-mixing. The game is fairly short (5h) but to get the most out of it at least 2-3 playthroughs are required (or watch on YT). Choices and conversations do matter and affect the various endings. I only encountered a few issues. I was stuck when going to the attic, had to reload from main page and repeat a whole segment. Not that damaging but still annoying. The slow walking speed got annoying when backtracking for the collectibles. Not such a big deal in this short game. OXENFREE is the debut game of the young "Night School Studio" developers back in 2016, Netflix had no stake in this! Yet, after the studio was acquired by Netflix, they parade Oxenfree as one of their flagship titles and all credit goes to them. Netflix hired failed EA and Epic Games executives to develop mostly cheap mobile phone games. Yes, you can play Oxenfree on the Netflix app if you have a subscription, but it is another cheap platform/launcher that tries to compete with Steam. All they did was piss people off on itchio by stealing their purchased game...cringe. Credit to Night School Studio and always play on Steam or raise the black flag. No other viable alternatives. Game is fairly cheap on discount and worth to play. One of the best games in that price range. Very reminiscent of old 90s nostalgia and Stranger Things teenage horror. ( btw, here's a song fitting the game's mood: Kaizers Orchestra - Hjerteknuser ) I enjoyed it.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Oxenfree is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

Oxenfree is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 9.75€ on Steam.

Oxenfree received 10,861 positive votes out of a total of 11,840 achieving a rating of 8.93.

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Oxenfree was developed and published by Night School Studio.

Oxenfree is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Oxenfree is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Oxenfree is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Oxenfree is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Oxenfree. Explore additional content available for Oxenfree on Steam.

Oxenfree does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Oxenfree supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.

Oxenfree is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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