Thunder Wolves
Fair · Shooter · 2013
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.5h 12.6h to 100%
- Value
- $2.85/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 821 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
When this “wolf pack” strikes, you hear the thunder roll. The Thunder Wolves attack from the air. They are mercenaries, and the best helicopter pilots in the world. Every one of them is ready for action at all times—and ready to fight evil, wherever it lurks.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 256MB DirectX9 compatible video card, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
101 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 63 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN ($59.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Heliborne Collection ($29.99, scores 24).
More about Thunder Wolves
Critics scored it 69. Players sit 15 points higher at 84 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 215 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 72 percent of the 174 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 39 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 3.5 hours. Doing everything runs 13, 3.6 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
91% 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
DO NOT BUY The game is broken with a "failed to initialize game engine" error. The developer has been made aware but stated there is no plans to solve or fix this issue
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Haven't played the game in over a year. Went to launch it and got "failed to initialize the engine". Tried all the easy fixes. Not going to use some third party program to play an arcade helicopter game. Booo
An excellent, fast-paced arcade helicopter shooter straight out of childhood-a great way to while away an evening destroying hordes of enemies by furiously clicking the left mouse button.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Thunder Wolves scores 55/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/232970/thunder-wolvesReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.