LUFTRAUSERS
Worth it · Roguelike · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.99. It has been discounted 88 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. 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 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 19 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 82 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Savant - Ascent ($1.99, scores 72).
The press gave it 80; the people who bought it give it 91 percent. An 11-point gap in the buyer's favour.
1 of the 410 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 785 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
83% 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
Players
3 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
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LUFTRAUSERS scores 74/100 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/233150/luftrausersThe 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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