Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol
Skip · Strategy · 2013
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $4.99.
- Length
- 3.4h
- Value
- $1.47/hr
- Reviews
- 69% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 297 MB of storage. Windows only.
Battle to Rule the Skies!The skies over Europe are a dangerous place, where ace pilots lead their squadrons to glorious victory or crushing defeat! Take control of dozens of the most famous fighter planes of WWI and head into the dogfight. Roll, slip, and loop to get the drop on enemy aces.
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The value story
November 2015 is where it bottomed out, at $1.24. It has been discounted 72 times in the 13 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
It is less well reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Age of History II ($0.89, scores 82) beats it on value, while it beats Sid Meier's Starships ($3.74, scores 0).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 44 percent of the 120 reviews written there were positive, against 69 percent overall, and those are 30 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.4 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 6.9 times the campaign.
The drop-off
39% 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.
What players say
dang, i feel like theres a good turn based combat system hidden here, you control WW1 planes, and you have to move your units constantly since they cannot remain stationary, they use altitude as a resource to perform maneuvers, all that sounds good, and when all the pieces connect, it can feel like turn based dogfighting, but i feel the game makes a poor job at explaining its mechanics, i CONSTANTLY i find myself in...
Gotta agree with the positives. None of the gacha stuff from the app version. At discount you can't really go wrong
I'm a WW1 air biff & a HMGS ( Historical Miniature Game Society ) Game Master. his the best WW1 air Game I've player in V loong time " Great Job " Sid
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.
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Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol scores 25/100 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/244070/sid-meier-s-ace-patrolThe 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 20, price as of Sep 24.
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