Dogfight 1942
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Under the fair line today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Skip
Typical seasonal cut
$0.9990% offFair
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews▼
- 79% of 1,187
- Genre rank
- Top 44% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 3.2h
- To 100%
- 8.9h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 22
Price and sales
- Sales
- 105 on record
- Typical cut
- 80% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2016
- Sale every
- 35d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 46% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 50% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
57% start to 2% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 105 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 44 percent. Among the games that feel like it, LUFTRAUSERS ($9.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats World of Warplanes (free, scores 26).
More about Dogfight 1942
This site sampled 355 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 257 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 36 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.2 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.8 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 19 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Unplayable on Windows 11 in fullscreen, and launching in windowed the resolution is poor and extends across second monitor despite setting resolution in settings
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Piloting a wide range of aircraft, players engage in aerial dogfights and dangerous fighter missions across the major theaters of war during WWII.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 8600GT 256MB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Dogfight 1942 scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/217790/dogfight-1942Reviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.