Liftoff®: Micro Drones
Skip · Action · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
It has sold at a fair price before.
Today
$15.99Skip
On its price record
$15.13Fair
- Length
- 1h
- Value
- $15.99/hr
- Reviews
- 93% of 1,476 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.13 or less.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $11.19 (30% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 5 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Explore the world of FPV like never before! In Liftoff®: Micro Drones any indoor area becomes an exciting aerial playground. Explore, customize and compete in this simulator dedicated to the micro drones class.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 29 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 9 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $2.01. No recorded sale has reached it yet.
On value it sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Driftwood ($19.99, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats KartKraft™ ($24.99, scores 30).
More about Liftoff®: Micro Drones
This site sampled 400 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 133 reviews written there were positive, against 93 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
6% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I've tried 3 sims and I've flown my air65 for a while now. The physics are good, the reviews saying it's bad are old and outdated, or way too critical. Comparing the air65 in liftoff micro drones to the one in the velocidrone whoop DLC, liftoff is much better out of the box. This sim is what I'd recommend for people getting into whoops, closely behind that is The Zone, but that sim requires fiddling with the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The DRM checks add useless overhead for paying customers. I can't even launch the executable directly without going through the Steam UI. Piracy is a service problem, and right now the legitimate version offers a worse launch experience than cracked versions. Love the sim, but this has been quite an annoyance for me.
- No list of which environment is easy/medium/hard - Each environment only has 3 tracks - Even less graphics configuration options compared to Liftoff - No button for random track. Only restart the same track or start a "new session". This makes it tedious to navigate these menus when you just want to fly. - You cannot bind your controller to navigate menus at all. They left these out of the buttons menu for some...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Liftoff®: Micro Drones scores 49/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1432320/liftoff-micro-dronesReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.