IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
Fair · Strategy · 2008
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, DirectX 9 compliant with 64 MB RAM (128 recommended)(see supported list*). Windows only.
Il-2 1946 includes all of the original IL-2 series content: IL-2 Sturmovik™: Forgotten Battles, Ace Expansion Pack, Pacific Fighters™ and alternate histry campaigns of year 1946. What was years ago began as a one-aircraft study sim is now an astonishing anthology, with a whopping 229 flyable aircraft and over 300 aircraft total!
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- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. We scored it as a typical Strategy game (about 8 hours) and docked the score for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was December 2025. It has been discounted 71 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 8 percent on value. It is pricier than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 92 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Silent Hunter® III ($2.49, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad ($49.99, scores 56).
This site sampled 479 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 6 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 460 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 17 percent of everything written about it.
Players
20 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). Length is estimated at 8 hours, not measured, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/15320/il-2-sturmovik-1946The BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 3, price as of Sep 24.
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