Dogfight 1942
Skip · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 3.2h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 8600GT 256MB, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Piloting a wide range of aircraft, players engage in aerial dogfights and dangerous fighter missions across the major theaters of war during WWII.
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
October 2016 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. Its cuts run 80 percent off as a rule. There have been 103 in the 14 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 40 percent on value. 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).
This site sampled 353 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 254 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.
The drop-off
57% 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
Unplayable on Windows 11 in fullscreen, and launching in windowed the resolution is poor and extends across second monitor despite setting resolution in settings
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.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Dogfight 1942 scores 47/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/217790/dogfight-1942The 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 6, price as of Sep 24.
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