DCS World Steam Edition
Worth it · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it, and it costs nothing.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 85% of 41,447
- Genre rank
- Top 15% Shooter
Holding it back: Reviews
Players and genre
- Online
- 727 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Better reviewed
- 68% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
Its score sits in the top 15 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 68 percent of its genre. The nearest things to it, War Thunder (free, scores 31) and WWII Online (free, scores 0), are both worse buys on this math.
It is still busy. 727 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 4, 22:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
Feel the excitement of flying the Su-25T "Frogfoot" attack jet and the TF-51D "Mustang" in the free-to-play Digital Combat Simulator World!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Discrete AMD or NVIDIA 8GB+, 200 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
DCS World Steam Edition scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/223750/dcs-world-steam-editionReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 31. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.