LUFTRAUSERS
Worth it · Roguelike · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% off
- Cost per hour
- $2.50/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 4,535
- Critics
- 80 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 12% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 4h
- To 100%
- 14.3h 3.6x the story
- Achievements
- 12
Price and sales
- Sales
- 89 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 November 2015
- Sale every
- 46d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1 now
- Cheaper than
- 51% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 85% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
83% start to 2% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 89 times in the 13 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 12 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Jamestown ($9.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats Distant Space ($0.99, scores 58).
More about LUFTRAUSERS
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 414 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 789 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 23 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 14, 3.6 times as much.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 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
Luftrausers is an aerial shooter roguelike that is incredibly addictive. You begin with only a basic "rauser," but as you accumulate kills, you're rewarded with upgrades that can be mixed and matched to fit your play style. Don't get too used to one rauser configuration, because each individual component has a set of challenges, which must be equipped to complete them. Prepare to get shot down, over and over again...
2 more reviews
This arcade game is hard but it is so extremely satisfying as you learn to fly head first into your enemies like they're nothing and manage to survive when the sky is more bullet than air. You can truly feel like a flying ace! The music that adapts to what plane you have and your damage is great, its really quick to start the game and get into the action. There are some serious points of unfairness with some weapons...
never ask a man his salary a woman her age a luftrausers player to kill a battleship at max combo
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video, 205 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
LUFTRAUSERS scores 74/100 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/233150/luftrausersReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.