Guns of Icarus Online
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD3000, Nvidia GeForce GT8600 or equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.
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.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was November 2018. It has been discounted 75 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 27 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 2 percent on value. It is cheaper than 61 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Splitgate (free, scores 81) beats it on value, while it beats Natural Selection 2 ($4.99, scores 66).
The press gave it 64; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 26-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 414 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 835 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 10 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
58% 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
16 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Upon booting up the game for the first time, I was awarded with over 40 achievements in merely one second. Sweet! What's not sweet is only a single digit number of player(s) are playing a game. Oof!
so apparently they moved to alliance but we have to re buy it but im not paying to play a game i already own.
People still coming to play it regularly on events, so it's not dead, it's just hybernating between the events. Events are on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Check Discord server for more info. No need of explaining how the game is good when people still play it after 13 years.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Guns of Icarus Online scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/209080/guns-of-icarus-onlineThe 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 11, price as of Sep 24.
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