Owlboy All Coins: Complete Area-by-Area Coin Location Guide

Why Hunt Down Every Coin in Owlboy?

Owlboy is stuffed with optional loot, and its coins are the collectibles most players miss on a first run. They're tucked behind waterfalls, hidden along vertical shafts, and stashed inside optional set pieces that are easy to fly right past. Since Otus's flight makes exploration feel effortless, it's also easy to assume you've swept an area clean when a coin is actually hiding just off-screen above you.

Finishing the coin set is part of true completion for the game — the community files full-coin runs alongside achievement hunting, loot collecting, and secret finding. Because there's no simple in-game checklist that tells you which area a missing coin belongs to, most completionists work through the game zone by zone. That's exactly how the best-known reference organizes things: El Galleta's video guide on Steam Community, which walks through every coin location in order.

Owlboy All Coins: Full Area Checklist

A solid owlboy all coins run breaks the game into ten distinct collecting zones, from the opening cave all the way to the pirate hideout. Use this table to figure out which area your missing coins are hiding in:

If you've already beaten the game and are cleaning up, work through this list in reverse: the later zones (Mesos, the Boguin cannon) are the ones players most often finish a playthrough without touching.

Early Coins: Vellie Cave, Vellie, and Tropos/Strato

The first three zones set the pattern for the whole game. In Vellie Cave, coins reward you for flying against the obvious direction — drifting upward past the tutorial markers instead of following the story path forward. In the village of Vellie itself, check above the rooftops and behind the taller structures; the settlement's vertical layout means several coins sit at heights you'll only reach if you deliberately climb.

The Tropos/Strato stretch continues the trend with coins placed along the transit route between the two locations. A few practical habits pay off here:

• Sweep in layers. Fly a zone at ground level, then again at mid-height, then along the ceiling.
• Check transitions. Coins frequently sit at the seams between screens and areas rather than in the middle of them.
• Grab them early. Clearing these zones before pushing deep into the story keeps your mental map of "finished" areas accurate.

Dungeon Coins: Owl Temple and the Floating Continent

The middle of the game concentrates its trickiest coins in the Owl Temple and on the Floating Continent. Inside the temple, coins hide in the rooms you pass through while solving puzzles — often behind a switch you've already flipped or in an alcove you only open on your way out. Treat each puzzle room as two passes: one to solve it, one to loot it.

On the Floating Continent, the guide splits the zone into a jungle half and a molten half, and the two demand different approaches:

• Jungle: Dense canopy and foliage naturally conceal pickups. Fly slowly and look for coins peeking through leaves.
• Molten: Here the challenge is routing, not visibility. Coins sit along flight lanes near lava, so plan your approach before committing.

Late Coins: Mesos, Mesos Passage, and the Boguin Cannon

The final collecting zones come late in the game. Mesos scatters coins across its main area, while the Mesos Passage strings them along its connecting corridor — an easy place to miss one if you rush through toward the next story beat. Fly the passage at a crawl once before moving on.

The Boguin cannon is the odd one out on the checklist: it's not a broad zone but a specific secret built around Boguin's cannon, and it's the single most commonly missed entry in a full-coin run. If your collection feels complete but an achievement or 100% check isn't triggering, this is the first place to look. As the original Steam guide notes, it was compiled specifically because no other walkthrough covered the coins — which tells you how easy the bulk of them are to miss without help.

Coin Hunting FAQ

How many coins are in Owlboy in total?

The game doesn't surface a simple area-by-area counter, which is why the community's reference material organizes coins by the ten zones listed above rather than by a raw total. If you clear every zone on the checklist — including the Boguin cannon secret — you'll have covered every documented coin location.

Are any coins missable?

The main risk isn't that coins vanish, but that you forget where you've been. Some players also change the layout of familiar areas as the story progresses, which can make an early zone feel unfamiliar on a cleanup run. The safest approach is to sweep each of the ten areas as you reach it, then use the checklist to re-verify zones you visited long ago.

Do I need every coin for 100% completion?

Full-coin runs are grouped with the game's achievements, loot, and secrets by the community — so if you're chasing total completion rather than just the credits, the coin set is on the list. Casual players can finish the story without touching most of them, but completionists should budget an extra session or two for the hunt.

What's the fastest way to find the coin I'm missing?

Work through the area checklist one zone at a time rather than wandering the whole map. Most players find their gaps in the later zones — Mesos, Mesos Passage, and especially the Boguin cannon — simply because those areas are easy to rush through on the way to the ending. Pair your sweep with a video walkthrough of the zone so you can spot exact coin positions instead of guessing.