RealFlight Evolution
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $99.99.
- Reviews
- 89% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Full DirectX 11 compliant, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
RealFlight® is the industry-leading flight simulator for radio-controlled airplanes, helicopters, and drones. Fly more than 300 hyper-realistic vehicles in an immense, open world right from your desktop. This RC classic is a must-have tool for flight enthusiasts of all skill levels!
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
It has never been cheaper than $69.99. That was May 2024. It has gone on sale 2 times in the 4 years tracked here, most recently in December 2024.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 19 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, FPV SkyDive : FPV Drone Simulator (free, scores 60) beats it on value, while it beats Aerofly FS 2 Flight Simulator ($49.99, scores 34).
11 of the 431 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2022 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, 530 have a larger share.
It came out 4 years ago and 514 were still playing it at the last check.
The drop-off
61% 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
Players
514 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: critic score (Metacritic).
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RealFlight Evolution scores 48/100 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/2069310/realflight-evolutionThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 22.
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