Fire and Steel
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $6.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 2.1h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 250 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1169 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Fire & Steel is the first chapter of a fast-paced, old-school, arcade aerial shooter where you burn down the mighty armies of World War II as young Dragon Aiden!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 970, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
15 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 90 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 167 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 36 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 69 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN ($59.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats World of Warplanes (free, scores 26).
More about Fire and Steel
2 of the 203 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 152 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 75 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% start to 2% 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
Short but fun. It's a simple concept of "Wouldn't adding x to y be cool!" but it's actually executed well. Controls work well with keyboard and mouse. I like the propaganda newspapers in-between levels.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game plays alot like the old arcade games of the 80s and 90s, akin to Afterburner and Panzer Dragoon. Its an arcade style flight/action game where you control a dragon and flame enemies. The controls are easy to use, and completely redefinable on my ps4 controller - using Steam customization. Its short, tough in places and looks fairly decent. Its not well optimized however, and my system was struggling to run...
I'm thinking too much about a $7 game, but as a dragon lover in world where games you can play as a dragon are scarce, here goes. The game is a fun idea in concept, it's like a middle schooler's doodles made into a video game. Attacking Normandy as a dragon was pretty cool. However, there are a ton of quality of life things that just aren't there. There are no mid-level checkpoints. If you die, back to the...
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Cite this score
Fire and Steel scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1791790/fire-and-steelReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.