Aloft
Skip · Strategy · 2025 · Early Access
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 / Intel Arc A750, 12 GB of storage. Windows only.
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
August 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $17.49. It has been discounted 15 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 32 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Sailwind ($19.99, scores 47) beats it on value, while it beats Pathless Woods ($15.99, scores 36).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 37 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 544 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 287 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Aloft scores 39/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1660080/aloftThe 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 Jul 31, price as of Sep 23.
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